Catholic Public Domain Version
"But the Lord your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and he turned his cursing into your blessing, because he loves you. "
— Deuteronomy 23:5, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.”
“Nevertheless Jehovah thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but Jehovah thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because Jehovah thy God loved thee. ”
“Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.”
“But the LORD your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed the curse to a blessing, for the LORD your God loves you.”
“And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.”
“But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you.”
“Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.”
The offspring of a harlot, that is, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.
The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation, shall not enter into the church of the Lord forever,
because they were not willing to meet you with bread and water along the way, when you had departed from Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam, the son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, in order to curse you.
But the Lord your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and he turned his cursing into your blessing, because he loves you.
You shall not make peace with them, nor shall you seek their prosperity, throughout all the days of your life forever.
You shall not abhor anyone from Idumea, for he is your brother, nor the Egyptian, for you were a new arrival in his land.
Those who have been born of them, in the third generation, shall enter into the church of the Lord.