A person of illegitimate birth<n id="1" /> may not enter the assembly of the <sc>Lordsc>; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">An Ammonite or Moabite<n id="1" /> may not enter the assembly of the <sc>Lordsc>; to the tenth generation none of their descendants shall ever<n id="2" /> do so,<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">A man with crushed<n id="1" /> or severed genitals<n id="2" /> may not enter the assembly of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" />

Children of the third generation born to them<n id="1" /> may enter the assembly of the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said.<n id="1" /> Then he inscribed the words<n id="2" /> on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

The <sc>Lordsc> gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger<n id="1" /> of God, and on them was everything<n id="2" /> he<n id="3" /> said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> then wrote on the tablets the same words,<n id="2" /> the ten commandments,<n id="3" /> which he<n id="4" /> had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he<n id="5" /> gave them to me.

This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the <sc>Lordsc> your God: &#8220;Please do not make us hear the voice of the <sc>Lordsc> our<n id="1" /> God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.&#8221;