Deuteronomy 23:8
What does Deuteronomy 23:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 23:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, doth enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter into the church of the Lord.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Children that are born to them shall come into the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ephesians 2:12
that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
- Romans 3:29
Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:
- Deuteronomy 23:1
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
- Exodus 20:5
thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
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