Deuteronomy 23 · Geneva Bible Notes (1560) · Commentaries (Good Books Free)

¹ ^a Ether to beare office, or to mary a wife.

¹ ^! What men might not be admitted to office.

² ^b This was to cause them to liue chastely, that their posteritie might not be rejected.

⁴ ^c Hereby he condemneth all, that further not the children of God in their vocation.

⁶ ^d Thou shalt haue nothing to do with them.

⁸ ^e If the fathers haue renounced their idolatrie, and receiued circumcision.

⁹ ^! What they oght to auoide when they go to warre.

¹² ^f For the necessitie of nature

¹³ ^g Meaning hereby that his people shulde be pure bothe in soule and body.

¹⁵ ^! Of the fugitiue seruant.

¹⁵ ^h This is meant of the heathen, who fled for their masters crueltie and imbraced the true religion.

¹⁶ ^/ Ebr. gates.

¹⁷ ^! To flee all kinde of whoredome.

¹⁸ ⁱ Forbidding hereby that anie gaine gotten of euil things, shulde be applied to the seruice of God, {Mic. 1,7}.

¹⁹ ^! Of vserie.

²⁰ ^k This was permitted for a time for the hardenes of their heart.

²⁰ ^l If thou shewe thy charitie to thy brother, God wil declare his loue toward thee.

²¹ ^! Of vowes.

²³ ^m If the vowe be lawful and godly.

²⁴ ^! Of thy neighbours vine and corne.

²⁴ ^o To bring home to thine house.

²⁴ ⁿ Being hired for to labour.

Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Deuteronomy 23