This edition follows the Hebrew versification; the traditional number is given in brackets.
Who may enter Yahweh’s assembly
1[22:30]A man must not marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed. 2[23:1]No one whose testicles have been crushed or whose organ has been cut off may enter the assembly of Yahweh. 3[23:2]No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of Yahweh; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the assembly of Yahweh. 4[23:3]No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of Yahweh; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may ever enter the assembly of Yahweh, 5[23:4]because they did not meet you with bread and water on your journey out of Egypt, and because they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you. 6[23:5]But Yahweh your God would not listen to Balaam; instead, Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loves you. 7[23:6]Never, as long as you live, seek their peace or their prosperity. 8[23:7]Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
Purity in the camp
9[23:8]Their children, in the third generation, may enter the assembly of Yahweh. 10[23:9]When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from anything impure. 11[23:10]If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nighttime emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there. 12[23:11]Toward evening he is to wash himself with water, and at sunset he may return to the camp. 13[23:12]Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 14[23:13]Keep a stake with your equipment, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement. 15[23:14]For Yahweh your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to give your enemies over to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.
A runaway slave, and no shrine prostitution
16[23:15]If a slave has taken refuge with you, fleeing from his master, do not hand him back to his master. 17[23:16]Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in whatever town he likes best. Do not mistreat him. 18[23:17]No daughter of Israel is to become a shrine prostitute, and no son of Israel is to become a shrine prostitute.
No interest from a brother, and vows kept
19[23:18]Do not bring the earnings of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of Yahweh your God to pay any vow, for both are detestable to Yahweh your God. 20[23:19]Do not charge your brother interest, whether on silver, on food, or on anything else that could earn interest. 21[23:20]You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in everything you undertake in the land you are entering to possess. 22[23:21]If you make a vow to Yahweh your God, do not be slow to keep it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you, and failing to pay would be a sin. 23[23:22]But if you refrain from making a vow, it is no sin. 24[23:23]Whatever comes out of your lips you must keep and do, since you made your vow freely to Yahweh your God with your own mouth.
Eating in a neighbor’s field, not harvesting it
25[23:24]If you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, until you are full, but you must not put any in your basket. 26[23:25]If you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
