Deuteronomy 23:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

Deuteronomy 23:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 20:5-6
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; …
Deuteronomy 23:1-3
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. …
Ephesians 2:12-13
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: …
Romans 3:29-30
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: …

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…