Deut 23:3

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Ammonite.

These nations were subjected for their impiety, wickedness, and enmity to Israel, (Deut 23:4, 5,) to peculiar disgrace; and on this account were not permitted to hold any office among the Israelites.

This did not, however, disqualify them from becoming proselytes; for Ruth, who was a Moabitess, was married to Boaz, and became one of the progenitors of our Lord.

Ruth 4:6; Ruth 4:10-22; Neh 4:3; Neh 4:7; Neh 13:1; Neh 13:2; Neh 13:23; Isa 56:3