MAY 23, 2023 Deuteronomy 23: 4-5 They hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. Nevertheless, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you. The decision to serve the One and Only God obviously has its […]
MAY 22, 2023 Deuteronomy 23:3-4 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord forever. Because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the […]
MAY 21, 2023 Deuteronomy 23:2 One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord. At first glance, this would seem to say that no child born out of wedlock could be considered as a citizen of Israel, nor could their […]
MAY 20, 2023 Deuteronomy 22:30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor uncover his father’s bed. Reading this in the 21st century, one might think that, to point out something of this nature is unnecessary, however, God knows the heart of man. That is why Scripture clearly states what is acceptable and what is […]
MAY 19, 2023 Deuteronomy 22:13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and detests her, and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings a bad name on her … then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the evidence of the young woman’s virginity to the elders of the […]
MAY 18, 2023 Deuteronomy 22:10-11 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together. Once again, we have instructions that, on the surface, might leave us wondering why Moses felt it necessary to address this particular issue. However, as […]
MAY 17, 2023 Deuteronomy 22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled. This instruction, in conjunction with other similar commands, prohibits the mingling of mutually exclusive kinds. In the beginning, the Creator made […]
MAY 14, 2023 Deuteronomy 22:1 You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep going astray and hide yourself from them; you shall certainly bring them back to your brother. While the primary emphasis of this command is to point out our responsibility to restore someone’s lost property, the underlying and greater emphasis is that […]
MAY 13, 2023 Deuteronomy 21:22-23 If a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the Lord your God is giving […]
MAY 12, 2023 Deuteronomy 21:20 And they shall say to the elders of his city, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.” As I mentioned yesterday, the severity of this command has fueled objections to the usefulness of the Torah and […]
MAY 11, 2023 Deuteronomy 21:18-19 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders […]
MAY 10, 2023 Deuteronomy 21:15-16 If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved … and if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved, then it shall be, on the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in preference to the son […]
