1 Hy wat deur verbryseling vermink of van wie die manlike deel afgesny is, mag in die vergadering van die HERE nie kom nie.
2 Geen baster mag in die vergadering van die HERE kom nie; selfs sy tiende geslag mag in die vergadering van die HERE nie kom nie.
3 Geen Ammoniet of Moabiet mag in die vergadering van die HERE kom nie; selfs hulle tiende geslag mag nooit in die vergadering van die HERE kom nie;
4 omdat hulle julle, by jul uittog uit Egipte, nie met brood en water op die pad tegemoetgekom het nie; en omdat hy B¡leam, die seun van Beor, uit Petor in Mesopot mië, teen jou gehuur het om jou te vloek.
5 Maar die HERE jou God wou nie na B¡leam luister nie; maar die HERE jou God het vir jou die vloek in 'n seën verander, omdat die HERE jou God jou liefgehad het.
6 Jy mag hulle vrede en hulle geluk solank as jy lewe, vir ewig nie soek nie.
7 Die Edomiet moet jy nie as 'n gruwel beskou nie, want hy is jou broer; die Egiptenaar moet jy nie as 'n gruwel beskou nie, want jy was 'n vreemdeling in sy land.
8 Kinders wat vir hulle in die derde geslag gebore word, mag in die vergadering van die HERE kom.
9 Wanneer jy as leër teen jou vyande uittrek, pas dan op vir enigiets wat verkeerd is.
10 As daar iemand by jou is wat weens 'n voorval by nag nie rein is nie, moet hy buitekant die laer uitgaan; hy mag nie in die laer inkom nie.
11 Maar as die aand aankom, moet hy hom in die water bad; en teen sonsondergang mag hy in die laer inkom.
12 Jy moet buitekant die laer 'n plek hê, en daarheen moet jy uitgaan.
13 En jy moet by jou gereedskap 'n grafie hê; as jy dan buitekant gaan sit, moet jy daarmee grawe en wat van jou uitgegaan het, weer toemaak.
14 Want die HERE jou God wandel midde-in jou laer om jou te red en jou vyande aan jou oor te gee; daarom moet jou laer heilig wees, sodat Hy niks skandeliks by jou mag sien en Hom van jou afwend nie.
15 Jy mag 'n slaaf wat van sy heer na jou ontsnap het, nie aan sy heer oorlewer nie.
16 Hy moet by jou bly, in jou midde, in die plek wat hy in een van jou poorte uitkies, waar dit vir hom goed is; jy mag hom nie verdruk nie.
17 Daar mag geen hoer uit die dogters van Israel wees nie; en daar mag geen skandseun uit die seuns van Israel wees nie.
18 Jy mag geen hoereloon of hondeprys in die huis van die HERE jou God as enige gelofte offer bring nie; want die altwee is vir die HERE jou God 'n gruwel.
19 Jy mag jou broer geen rente oplê nie, rente van geld, rente van eetware, rente van enigiets wat 'n mens teen rente uitleen nie.
20 Die uitlander mag jy rente oplê, maar jou broer mag jy geen rente oplê nie, sodat die HERE jou God jou kan seën in alles waar jy jou hand aan slaan in die land waarheen jy gaan om dit in besit te neem.
21 As jy aan die HERE jou God 'n gelofte doen, moet jy nie versuim om dit te betaal nie; want die HERE jou God sal dit sekerlik van jou eis, en dit sal sonde in jou word.
22 Maar as jy nalaat om te belowe, sal dit geen sonde in jou wees nie.
23 Wat oor jou lippe gaan, moet jy hou en doen soos jy aan die HERE jou God vrywillig beloof het -- wat jy met jou mond gespreek het.
24 As jy in die wingerd van jou naaste kom, mag jy na hartelus volop druiwe eet, maar in jou tas mag jy niks steek nie.
25 As jy in die ongesnyde graan van jou naaste kom, mag jy met jou hand are afpluk; maar 'n sekel mag jy nie swaai in die ongesnyde graan van jou naaste nie.
1 No man whose private parts have been wounded or cut off may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.
2 One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.
3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people:
4 Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you.
5 But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you.
6 Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.
7 But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.
8 Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.
9 When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing.
10 If any man among you becomes unclean through anything which has taken place in the night, he is to go out from the tent-circle and keep outside it:
11 But when evening comes near, let him take a bath: and after sundown he may come back to the tents.
12 Let there be a place outside the tent-circle to which you may go;
13 And have among your arms a spade; and when you have been to that place, let that which comes from you be covered up with earth:
14 For the Lord your God 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.
15 Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:
16 Let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him: do not be hard on him.
17 No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.
18 Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.
19 Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have:
20 From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage.
21 When you take an oath to the Lord, do not be slow to give effect to it: for without doubt the Lord your God will make you responsible, and will put it to your account as sin.
22 But if you take no oath, there will be no sin.
23 Whatever your lips have said, see that you do it; for you gave your word freely to the Lord your God.
24 When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel.
25 When you go into your neighbour's field, you may take the heads of grain with your hand; but you may not put your blade to his grain.