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Deuteronomy 23:8

Children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Edomites;   Egyptians;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Edomites, the;   Egypt;   Proselytes;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Alien;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Numbers, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Edom;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Idumaea ;   Proselyte;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Congregation;   Deuteronomy;   Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Antipater;   Edox, Idumea;   Eleazar B. Azariah;   Ḳiddushin;   Proselyte;   She'elot U-Teshubot;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The children born to them in the third generation may enter the Lord’s assembly.
Hebrew Names Version
The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of the LORD.
King James Version
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.
Lexham English Bible
The children that are born to them in the third generation may come representing them in the assembly of Yahweh.
English Standard Version
Children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the Lord .
New Century Version
The great-grandchildren of these two peoples may come into the meeting to worship the Lord .
Amplified Bible
"Their children of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
"The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The children that are begotten of them in their thirde generation, shall enter into the Congregation of the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of Yahweh.
Contemporary English Version
and let their great-grandchildren become part of Israel, the Lord 's people.
Complete Jewish Bible
(iv) "But you are not to detest an Edomi, because he is your brother; and you are not to detest an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
Darby Translation
Children that are born to them shall come into the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation.
Easy-to-Read Version
The children of the third generation born to the Edomites and Egyptians may join with the people of Israel to worship the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
The children that are born to them shall enter into the assembly of the LORD in their third generation.
Good News Translation
From the third generation onward their descendants may be included among the Lord 's people.
Literal Translation
sons of the third generation that are born to them may enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children whom they beget in the thirde generacion, shal come in to the congregacion of ye LORDE.
American Standard Version
The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The children that are begotten of the, shal come into the congregation of the Lorde in the thirde generation.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.
King James Version (1611)
The children that are begotten of them, shal enter into the cogregation of the Lord, in their third generation.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If sons be born to them, in the third generation they shall enter into the assembly of the Lord.
English Revised Version
The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei that ben borun of hem, schulen entre in the thridde generacioun in to the `chirche of the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, doth enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
Update Bible Version
The sons of the third generation that are born to them shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
The children that are begotten by them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
World English Bible
The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
New King James Version
The children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
New Living Translation
The third generation of Edomites and Egyptians may enter the assembly of the Lord .
New Life Bible
Their great-grandchildren may go into the meeting of the Lord.
New Revised Standard
The children of the third generation that are born to them may be admitted to the assembly of the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
the sons who are born to them, of the third generation, may enter unto them in the convocation of Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter into the church of the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
The children of the third generation that are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
THE MESSAGE
Children born to Edomites and Egyptians may enter the congregation of God in the third generation.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Contextual Overview

1 A man with crushed or severed genitals may not enter the assembly of the Lord . 2 A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the Lord ; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite may not enter the assembly of the Lord ; to the tenth generation none of their descendants shall ever do so, 4 for they did not meet you with food and water on the way as you came from Egypt, and furthermore, they hired Balaam son of Beor of Pethor in Aram Naharaim to curse you. 5 But the Lord your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed the curse to a blessing, for the Lord your God loves you. 6 You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come. 7 You must not hate an Edomite, for he is your relative; you must not hate an Egyptian, for you lived as a foreigner in his land. 8 Children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

enter into: Deuteronomy 23:1, Romans 3:29, Romans 3:30, Ephesians 2:12, Ephesians 2:13

third generation: Deuteronomy 23:2, Deuteronomy 23:3, Exodus 20:5, Exodus 20:6

Reciprocal: Micah 2:5 - the congregation

Cross-References

Genesis 23:1
Sarah lived 127 years.
Genesis 23:2
Then she died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
Genesis 23:3
Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife and said to the sons of Heth,
Genesis 23:4
"I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."
Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hethite.
1 Kings 2:17
He said, "Please ask King Solomon if he would give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife, for he won't refuse you."
Hebrews 7:26
For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The children that are begotten of them, Of such as became proselytes:

shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation; not in the third generation from the time that this law was made, but from the time that any of them should embrace the true religion; their sons were the second generation, and their grandchildren the third; and such might be admitted into the congregation, and be reckoned as of them, both in their civil and church state, and be capable of serving even offices among them, and of marriage with them, as the Targum of Jonathan; which some of the Jews interpret of males only, for females, according to them, might be married immediately as soon as made proselytes, in which way they account for the lawfulness of Solomon's marriage of Pharaoh's daughter p.

p Vid. Kimchi in 1 Reg. 3. 1. or 1 Ki. 3. 1. & Misn. Yebamot, c. 8. sect. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Edomite, as descended from Esau the twin brother of Jacob (compare Deuteronomy 2:4), and the Egyptian, as of that nation which had for long shown hospitality to Joseph and his brethren, were not to be objects of abhorrence. The oppression of the Egyptians was perhaps regarded as the act of the Pharaohs rather than the will of the people Exodus 11:2-3; and at any rate was not to cancel the memory of preceding hospitality.

Deuteronomy 23:8

In their third generation - i. e. the great grandchildren of the Edomite or Egyptian alien: compare the similar phrase in Exodus 20:5.


 
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