or as a robber riseth against his brother, and taketh away his life, so
also did the damsel suffer:
22:27. She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to
help her.
22:28. If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and
taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:
22:29. He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty
sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled
her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.
22:30. No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his covering.
Deuteronomy Chapter 23
Who may and who may not enter into the church: uncleanness to be
avoided: other precepts concerning fugitives, fornication, usury, vows,
and eating other men's grapes and corn.
23:1. An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut
off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.
Eunuch... By these are meant, in the spiritual sense, such as are barren
in good works. Ibid. Into the church... That is, into the assembly or
congregation of Israel, so as to have the privilege of an Israelite, or
to be capable of any place or office among the people of God.
23:2. A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not
enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.
23:3. The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation
shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:
23:4. Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way,
when you came out of Egypt: and because they hired against thee Balaam,
the son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.
23:5. And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his
cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.
23:6. Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their
prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.
23:7. Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor
the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.
23:8. They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter
into the church of the Lord.
23:9. When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep
thyself from every evil thing.
23:10. If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by
night, he shall go forth out of the camp,
23:11. And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the
evening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp
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