Deuteronomy 23:8

Modern

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

Traditional

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.

Literal

The sons who are begotten to them, the third generation, may enter into the assembly of YHWH.

Latin

Qui nati fuerint ex eis, tertia generatione intrabunt in ecclesiam Domini.

Hebrew

English

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

third generation: After a waiting period of three generations, Edomites and Egyptians who lived among Israel could join in worship of the Lord.

This time of probation (a period of testing or waiting) came before they were fully accepted into the community of faith.

Theme notes and profiles

Exodus 20:5–6
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Deuteronomy 23:1–3
No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Ephesians 2:12–13
…remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
Romans 3:29–30
Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,