申命记 23:4

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

因為你們出埃及的時候，他們沒有拿食物和水在路上迎接你們，又因為他們從兩河之間的亞蘭的毗奪雇了比珥的兒子巴蘭，來攻擊你，咒詛你。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 你 们 出 埃 及 的 时 候 ， 他 们 没 有 拿 食 物 和 水 在 路 上 迎 接 你 们 ， 又 因 他 们 雇 了 米 所 波 大 米 的 ? 夺 人 比 珥 的 儿 子 巴 兰 来 咒 诅 你 们 。

Contextual Overview

¹ No man who has had part of his sex organ cut off may come into the meeting to worship the Lord . ² No one born to parents who were forbidden by law to marry may come into the meeting to worship the Lord . The descendants for ten generations may not come in either. ³ No Ammonite or Moabite may come into the meeting to worship the Lord , and none of their descendants for ten generations may come in. ⁴ This is because the Ammonites and Moabites did not give you bread and water when you came out of Egypt. And they hired Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor in Northwest Mesopotamia, to put a curse on you. ⁵ But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam. He turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you. ⁶ Don't wish for their peace or success as long as you live. ⁷ Don't hate Edomites; they are your close relatives. Don't hate Egyptians, because you were foreigners in their country. ⁸ The great-grandchildren of these two peoples may come into the meeting to worship the Lord .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Because they met: Deuteronomy 2:28, Deuteronomy 2:29, Genesis 14:17, Genesis 14:18, 1 Samuel 25:11, 1 Kings 18:4, Isaiah 63:9, Zechariah 2:8, Matthew 25:40, Acts 9:4

because they hired: Numbers 22:5, Numbers 22:7, Numbers 22:17, Nehemiah 13:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:10 - Mesopotamia Numbers 22:6 - curse me Numbers 22:32 - thy way Numbers 23:7 - Aram Numbers 24:10 - I called Deuteronomy 23:3 - Ammonite Joshua 24:9 - General Judges 8:5 - loaves Judges 11:25 - Balak Proverbs 26:2 - so Amos 1:13 - and for Amos 2:1 - For three Micah 6:5 - Balak Acts 2:9 - Mesopotamia 1 Timothy 6:10 - the love 2 Peter 2:15 - who

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
You will sweat and work hard for your food. Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust."

Genesis 17:8
You live in the land of Canaan now as a stranger, but I will give you and your descendants all this land forever. And I will be the God of your descendants."

Genesis 23:12
Then Abraham bowed down before the Hittites.

Genesis 23:13
He said to Ephron before all the people, "Please let me pay you the full price for the field. Accept my money, and I will bury my dead there."

Genesis 23:16
Abraham agreed and paid Ephron in front of the Hittite witnesses. He weighed out the full price, ten pounds of silver, and they counted the weight as the traders normally did.

Genesis 47:9
Jacob said to him, "My life has been spent wandering from place to place. It has been short and filled with trouble—only one hundred thirty years. My ancestors lived much longer than I."

Genesis 49:30
That cave is in the field of Machpelah east of Mamre in the land of Canaan. Abraham bought the field and cave from Ephron the Hittite for a burying place.

Genesis 50:13
They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried it in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre. Abraham had bought this cave and field from Ephron the Hittite to use as a burial place.

Leviticus 25:23
"‘The land really belongs to me, so you can't sell it for all time. You are only foreigners and travelers living for a while on my land.

1 Chronicles 29:15
We are like foreigners and strangers, as our ancestors were. Our time on earth is like a shadow. There is no hope.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because they met you not with bread and with water,.... To supply them therewith, either as a gift, which was a piece of humanity to strangers and travellers, or rather to sell unto them, for on no other terms did the Israelites desire their bread and their water:

in the way when ye came forth out of Egypt; not as soon as they came forth from thence, for it was near forty years after; but it was while they were in the way from thence, as they were journeying to the land of Canaan, and so were travellers, and should have had kindness shown them as such; for though they needed not bread and water, God providing both for them, yet this does not excuse the inhumanity of these people: the words are to be understood by way of distribution; this charge here only belongs to the Ammonites, for it appears that the Moabites did give them bread and water for money, Deuteronomy 2:28 as what follows belongs peculiarly to the Moabites and not the Ammonites:

and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee; this the Moabites did in conjunction with the Midianites, but the Ammonites had no concern in it; see Numbers 22:7, it was not therefore because the Moabites and Ammonites were born in incest that they were forbidden entrance into the congregation of the Lord; which might have been thought to have been the reason of it, these instances following upon the former, had not these reasons been assigned.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This law forbids only the naturalization of those against whom it is directed. It does not forbid their dwelling in the land; and seems to refer rather to the nations than to individuals. It was not understood at any rate to interdict marriage with a Moabitess; compare Ruth 1:4; Ruth 4:13. Ruth however, and her sister were doubtless proselytes.

Deuteronomy 23:4

Compare the marginal reference. The Moabites and the Ammonites are to be regarded as clans of the same stock rather than as two independent nations, and as acting together. Compare 2 Chronicles 20:1.