Deuteronomy 23:8

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
children	בָּנִ֛ים ba.Nim	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural absolute
begotten	יִוָּלְד֥וּ yi.val.Du	H3205	to bear young · verb, niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
enter	יָבֹ֥א ya.Vo'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
congregation	בִּקְהַ֥ל bik.Hal	H6951	assemblage (usually concretely) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
LORD	יְהוָֽה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
third	שְׁלִישִׁ֑י she.li.Shi	H7992	third · ordinal number, masculine singular absolute
generation	דּ֣וֹר Dor	H1755	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

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…
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…
Romans 3:29-30 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 23:1-8

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 members of the church, and the Ammonites and Moabites might be circumcised and proselyted to the Jewish religion, yet they and their families must lie for some time under marks of disgrace, remembering the rock whence they were hewn, and must not come so near the sanctuary as others might, nor have so fre…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 23:3

even to the their tenth generation shall they not enter--Many eminent writers think that this law of exclusion was applicable only to males; at all events that a definite is used for an indefinite number (Neh 13:1; Rut 4:10; Kg2 10:2). Many of the Israelites being established on the east side of Jordan in the immediate neighborhood of those people, God raised this partition wall between them to prevent the consequences of evil communications. More favor was to be shown to Edomites and Egyptians--to the former from their near relationship to Israel; and to the latter, from their early hospitalities to the family of Jacob, as well as the many acts of kindness rendered them by private Egyptians…

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John Gill on Deuteronomy 23:8

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 p…

Dictionary and topics

Alien — A foreigner, or person born in another country, and therefore not entitled to the rights and privileges of the country where he resides. Among the Hebrews there were two classes of aliens. (1.) Those…
Edomites, The · Might be received into the congregation in third generation — Might be received into the congregation in third generation
Egypt · Inhabitants of: Might be received into the congregation in the third generation — Inhabitants of: Might be received into the congregation in the third generation
Egyptians · generation — generation
Proselytes · From the Egyptians and Edomites restricted to the third generation from holding office in the congregation — From the Egyptians and Edomites restricted to the third generation from holding office in the congregation

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Deuteronomy 23:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 23:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 23:3

John Gill on Deuteronomy 23:8

Dictionary and topics

Deuteronomy 23:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 23:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 23:3

John Gill on Deuteronomy 23:8

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Deuteronomy 23:3-8

Keil & Delitzsch on Deuteronomy 23:1-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 23:8

Rashi on Deuteronomy 23:8