3 ^kYou shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,

3 ^k“No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the Lord forever, 4 ^lbecause they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they ^mhired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of ⁿMesopotamia, to curse you. 5 But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the Lord your God turned ^othe curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you.