MAY 30, 2023 Deuteronomy 23:24-25 When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure, but you shall not put any in your container. When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain. […]
MAY 29, 2023 Deuteronomy 23:21-22 When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay paying it; for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you. But if you abstain from voting, it shall not be sin to you. It is quite natural for us when, in […]
MAY 28, 2023 Deuteronomy 23:17-18 There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the sons of Israel. You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the Lord your God for any vowed offering, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God. In many ancient […]
MAY 27, 2023 Deuteronomy 23:15-16 You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you. He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it seems best to him; you shall not oppress him. According to the code of […]
MAY 26, 2023 Deuteronomy 23:14 For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you; therefore, your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you. As I have said before, God doesn’t skip over the mundane […]
MAY 25, 2023 Deuteronomy 23:9 When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing. As William T. Sherman once said, “War is …” — well, you know. In times of war, a soldier is most likely to see anything and everything, good and bad. God knew that going against […]
MAY 24, 2023 Deuteronomy 23:7-8 You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land. The children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord. The distinction made between two groups of people — Moab and Ammon on one hand […]
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 […]