Deuteronomy 23:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 23:2 —

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Zechariah 9:6
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Isaiah 57:3
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
Hebrews 12:8
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
John 8:41
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

Interpreters are not agreed what is here meant by entering into the congregation of the Lord, which is here forbidden to eunuchs and to bastards, Ammonites and Moabites, for ever, but to Edomites and Egyptians only till the third generation. 1. Some think they are hereby excluded from communicating with the people of God in their religious services. Though eunuchs and bastards were owned as member…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

De 23:1-25. Who May and Who May Not Enter into the Congregation. 1-3. He that is wounded ..., shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord--“To enter into the congregation of the Lord” means either admission to public honors and offices in the Church and State of Israel, or, in the case of foreigners, incorporation with that nation by marriage. The rule was that strangers and foreigners, for…