SEV Biblia, Chapter 23:3
No entrará amonita ni moabita en la congregación del SEÑOR; ni aun en la décima generación entrará en la congregación del SEÑOR para siempre;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 23:3
Verse 3. An Ammonite or Moabite] These nations were subjected for their impiety and wickedness, (see ver. 4 and 5,) to peculiar disgrace, and on this account were not permitted to hold any office among the Israelites. But this did not disqualify them from being proselytes: Ruth, who was a Moabitess, was married to Boaz, and she became one of the progenitors of our Lord.
Even to their tenth generation] That is, for ever, as the next clause explains; see Neh. xiii. 1.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord , etc.] Or marry an Israelitish woman, as Jarchi, and so the Targum of Jonathan, “the male Ammonites and Moabites are not fit to take a wife of the congregation of the Lord;” for the Jews restrain this to men, because it is, as Aben Ezra observes, an Ammonite, not an Ammonitess, a Moabite, not a Moabitess; they allow that females of those nations might be married to Israelites, that is, provided they were proselytesses, as Ruth was f387 : even to their tenth generation, shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever ; that is, not only to the tenth generation, but for ever; and this law was understood as in force in Nehemiah’s time, which was more than ten generations from the making of it; though now, as these nations are no more a distinct people, they suppose it is no longer binding f388 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-8 - We ought to value the privileges of God's people, both for ourselve and for our children, above all other advantages. No persona blemishes, no crimes of our forefathers, no difference of nation, shut us out under the Christian dispensation. But an unsound heart wil deprive us of blessings; and a bad example, or an unsuitable marriage may shut our children from them.
Original Hebrew
לא 3808 יבא 935 עמוני 5984 ומואבי 4125 בקהל 6951 יהוה 3068 גם 1571 דור 1755 עשׂירי 6224 לא 3808 יבא 935 להם 1992 בקהל 6951 יהוה 3068 עד 5704 עולם׃ 5769
