Deuteronomy 23:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

⁴ Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Egypt: hand because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beer, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.

⁵ And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.