Verse 14
Deuteronomy 23:14
Bible in Basic English
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For the Lord your God (Elohim) is walking among your tents, to keep you safe and to give up into your hands those who are fighting against you; then let your tents be holy, so that he may see no unclean thing among you, and be turned away from you.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/יָתֵ֛ד תִּהְיֶ֥ה לְ/ךָ֖ עַל אֲזֵנֶ֑/ךָ וְ/הָיָה֙ בְּ/שִׁבְתְּ/ךָ֣ ח֔וּץ וְ/חָפַרְתָּ֣ה בָ֔/הּ וְ/שַׁבְתָּ֖ וְ/כִסִּ֥יתָ אֶת צֵאָתֶֽ/ךָ
English Translation
And you shall have a peg on your ear, and it shall be when you sit outside, and you shall dig in it and cover your excrement.
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Chapter 23 Context
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No man whose private parts have been wounded or cut off may come into the meeting of the Lord's peop...
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One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or a...
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3
No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of t...
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4
Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam...
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But the Lord your God (Elohim) would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a ble...
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Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.
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7
But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living...
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Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.
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9
When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing.
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10
If any man among you becomes unclean through anything which has taken place in the night, he is to g...
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11
But when evening comes near, let him take a bath: and after sundown he may come back to the tents.
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12
Let there be a place outside the tent-circle to which you may go;
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13
And have among your arms a spade; and when you have been to that place, let that which comes from yo...
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14
For the Lord your God (Elohim) is walking among your tents, to keep you safe and to give up into you...
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Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:
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Let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him: do not be hard on him.
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17
No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Is...
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18
Do not take into the house of the Lord your God (Elohim), as an offering for an oath, the price of a...
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19
Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let...
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20
From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of...
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21
When you take an oath to the Lord, do not be slow to give effect to it: for without doubt the Lord y...
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But if you take no oath, there will be no sin.
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When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you...
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When you go into your neighbour's field, you may take the heads of grain with your hand; but you may...
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