Deuteronomy 23:8

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Children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:5-6 : 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me, 6 and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
  • Deut 23:1-3 : 1 Purity in Public Worship A man with crushed or severed genitals may not enter the assembly of the LORD. 2 A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the LORD; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite may not enter the assembly of the LORD; to the tenth generation none of their descendants shall ever do so,
  • Rom 3:29-30 : 29 Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too! 30 Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
  • Eph 2:12-13 : 12 that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

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  • Deut 23:1-3
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    1Purity in Public Worship A man with crushed or severed genitals may not enter the assembly of the LORD.

    2A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the LORD; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.

    3An Ammonite or Moabite may not enter the assembly of the LORD; to the tenth generation none of their descendants shall ever do so,

  • Deut 23:6-7
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    6You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.

    7You must not hate an Edomite, for he is your relative; you must not hate an Egyptian, for you lived as a foreigner in his land.

  • Deut 29:22
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    22The generation to come– your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places– will see the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the LORD has brought on it.

  • Ps 78:6
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    6so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

  • Joel 1:3
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    3Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.

  • Deut 4:25
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    25Threat and Blessing following Covenant Disobedience After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the LORD your God that enrage him,

  • Deut 5:9
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    9You must not worship or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God. I punish the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject me,

  • Exod 20:5
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    5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,

  • Exod 34:7
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    7keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”

  • Deut 23:9
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    9Purity in Personal Hygiene When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.

  • Ps 22:30
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    30A whole generation will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the Lord.

  • Gen 15:16
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    16In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”

  • Isa 57:3
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    3But approach, you sons of omen readers, you offspring of adulteresses and prostitutes!

  • Amos 3:1
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    1Every Effect has its Cause Listen, you Israelites, to this message which the LORD is proclaiming against you! This message is for the entire clan I brought up from the land of Egypt:

  • Num 14:18
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    18‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.’

  • Deut 7:3
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    3You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

  • Lev 22:3
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    3Say to them,‘Throughout your generations, if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate to the LORD while he is impure, that person must be cut off from before me. I am the LORD.

  • Ps 78:8
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    8Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.

  • Neh 9:23
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    23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

  • Prov 17:6
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    6Grandchildren are like a crown to the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

  • Ps 112:2
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    2His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed.

  • Exod 34:23
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  • Num 18:22-23
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    22No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

    23But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.

  • Gen 50:23
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    23Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; they were given special inheritance rights by Joseph.

  • Lev 8:3
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    3and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.”

  • Exod 13:11
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    11When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

  • 2 Chr 31:18
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    18and to all the infants, wives, sons, and daughters of the entire assembly listed in the genealogical records, for they faithfully consecrated themselves.

  • Deut 32:5
    67%

    5His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children– this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.

  • Job 21:8
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    8Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.

  • Jer 30:20
    66%

    20The descendants of Jacob will enjoy their former privileges. Their community will be reestablished in my favor and I will punish all who try to oppress them.

  • Gen 17:12
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    12Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.

  • Deut 11:21
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    21so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the LORD promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.

  • Ezek 47:22
    66%

    22You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the resident foreigners who live among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

  • Num 14:33
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    33and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.

  • Deut 24:16
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    16Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

  • Num 8:9
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    9You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.

  • Neh 13:1
    66%

    1Further Reforms by Nehemiah On that day the book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people. They found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite may ever enter the assembly of God,

  • Deut 18:9
    66%

    9Provision for Prophetism When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

  • Rom 9:8
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    8This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

  • Deut 30:5
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    5Then he will bring you to the land your ancestors possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

  • Judg 2:10
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    10That entire generation passed away; a new generation grew up that had not personally experienced the LORD’s presence or seen what he had done for Israel.

  • 2 Chr 30:8
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    8Now, don’t be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the LORD and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the LORD your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.

  • Lev 12:3
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    3On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.

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    3Yes, sons are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

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    8So now, in the sight of all Israel, the LORD’s assembly, and in the hearing of our God, I say this: Carefully observe all the commands of the LORD your God, so that you may possess this good land and may leave it as a permanent inheritance for your children after you.