1 "He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of YHVH.

Remember that people in the Bible often symbolize ideas. The eunuchs represent Ideas that are sterile or incapable of growth and development.

 

2 "No bastard shall enter the assembly of YHVH; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of YHVH.

The bastards represent ideas which are fathered by passing thoughts rather than thoughts nurtured by the mind and wedded heart or intuition.

 

3 "No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of YHVH; even to the tenth generation none belonging to them shall enter the assembly of YHVH for ever;

 

4 because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Be'or from Pethor of Mesopota'mia, to curse you.

The Ammonites are descendants of Menammi, a son of Lot. If you recall, Lot means dark-colored or hidden. He represents the darker side of our consciousness. The son of such consciousness, or the result of such consciousness are thoughts that come from the darkness, in this case, carnality and lust.  Taken together, we can see why these thoughts should not be brought into the presence of God.

 

5 Nevertheless YHVH, your god, would not hearken to Balaam; but YHVH, your god, turned the curse into a blessing for you, because YHVH, your god, loved you.

 

6 You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days for ever.

 

7 "You shall not abhor an E'domite, for he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land.

 

8 The children of the third generation that are born to them may enter the assembly of YHVH.

 

9 "When you go forth against your enemies and are in camp, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

 

10 "If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of what chances to him by night, then he shall go outside the camp, he shall not come within the camp;

 

11 but when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water, and when the sun is down, he may come within the camp.

 

12 "You shall have a place outside the camp and you shall go out to it;

 

13 and you shall have a stick with your weapons; and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it, and turn back and cover up your excrement.

 

14 Because YHVH, your god, walks in the midst of your camp, to save you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, that he may not see anything indecent among you, and turn away from you.

 

15 "You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you;

 

16 he shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place which he shall choose within one of your towns, where it pleases him best; you shall not oppress him.

 

17 "There shall be no cult prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute of the sons of Israel.

 

18 You shall not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of YHVH, your god, in payment for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to YHVH, your god,

 

19 "You shall not lend upon interest to your brother, interest on money, interest on victuals, interest on anything that is lent for interest.

 

20 To a foreigner you may lend upon interest, but to your brother you shall not lend upon interest; that YHVH, your god, may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are entering to take possession of it.


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