Deuteronomy 23:1
Good News Translation
"No man who has been castrated or whose penis has been cut off may be included among the LORD's people.

New Revised Standard Version
No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
If a man's private parts have been crushed or cut off, he cannot fully belong to the LORD's people.

New American Bible
No one whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may come into the assembly of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.

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Leviticus 21:17-21 Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God. . . .

Leviticus 22:22-24 If it be blind, or broken, or have a scar or blisters, or a scab, or a dry scurf: you shall not offer them to the Lord, nor burn any thing of them upon the Lord's altar. . . .

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Deuteronomy 23:2,3,8 A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation. . . .

Nehemiah 13:1-3 And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever: . . .

Isaiah 56:3,4 And let not the son of the stranger, that adhereth to the Lord, speak, saying: The Lord will divide and separate me from his people. And let not the eunuch say: Behold I am a dry tree. . . .

Lamentations 1:10 Jod. The enemy hath put out his hand to all her desirable things: for she hath seen the Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, of whom thou gavest commandment that they should not enter into thy church.

Context
Exclusion from the Congregation
1An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.2A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.…
Cross References
Galatians 5:12
I would they were even cut off, who trouble you.

Leviticus 21:20
If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.

Leviticus 22:24
you shall not offer to the Lord any beast that hath the testicles bruised, or crushed, or cut and taken away: neither shall you do any such things in your land.

Deuteronomy 23:2
A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.

Isaiah 56:3
And let not the son of the stranger, that adhereth to the Lord, speak, saying: The Lord will divide and separate me from his people. And let not the eunuch say: Behold I am a dry tree.

Deuteronomy 22:30
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