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John Stevenson, 2010

Deuteronomy 16-26

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1:1 Preamble

1:6 Historical Prologue

5:1Stipulations

12:1

Ten Commandments

Related

Commandments

27:1 Blessings & Cursings

31:1 Succession

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5:1 Ten Commandments

12:6Warnings

again idolatry

14:1

Related to

the first

four

commands

16:18

Laws aboutworship

19:1

21:15

Ceremonial

righteousness

(toward God)

Qualifications

of leadersWar & Peace

Governmental

righteousness

Practical

righteousness

Laws of

Living

Related tothe last six

commands

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Deuteronomy 16:18

You shall appoint for yourselfjudges and officers in all your towns

which the LORD your God is giving

you, according to your tribes, and

they shall judge the people with

righteous judgment.

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Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not distort justice; youshall not be partial, and you shall not

take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the

eyes of the wise and perverts the

words of the righteous.

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Deuteronomy 16:20

Justice, and only justice, youshall pursue, that you may live and

possess the land which the LORD

your God is giving you.

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Deuteronomy 16:21-22

You shall notplant for yourself an

Asherah of any kind of

tree beside the altar of

the LORD your God,

which you shall make

for yourself. 22 You

shall not set up foryourself a sacredpillar

which the LORD your

God hates.

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detestable

sacrifices (17:1)

idolatry

(17:2-5)

idolatry

(16:21-22)

Avoid

Appoint just

judges(16:18-20)

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Deuteronomy 17:2-3

If there is found in your midst, inany of your towns, which the LORD

your God is giving you, a man or a

woman who does what is evil in the

sight of the LORD your God, by

transgressing His covenant, 3 and

has gone and served other gods and

worshiped them, or the sun or themoon or any of the heavenly host,

which I have not commanded,

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Deuteronomy 17:4-5

and if it is told you and you haveheard of it, then you shall inquire

thoroughly. Behold, if it is true and

the thing certain that this detestable

thing has been done in Israel, 5 then

you shall bring out that man or that

woman who has done this evil deed

to your gates, that is, the man or thewoman, and you shall stone them to

death.

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Deuteronomy 17:6

On the evidence of twowitnesses or three witnesses, he who

is to die shall be put to death; he

shall not be put to death on the

evidence of one witness.

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Deuteronomy 17:7

The hand of the witnesses shallbe first against him to put him to

death, and afterward the hand of all

the people. So you shall purge the

evil from your midst.

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Deuteronomy 17:8

If any case is too difficult for youto decide, between one kind of

homicide or another, between one

kind of lawsuit or another, and

between one kind of assault or

another, being cases of dispute in

your courts, then you shall arise and

go up to the place which the LORDyour God chooses.

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Deuteronomy 17:9

So you shall come to theLevitical priest or the judge who is in

office in those days, and you shall

inquire of them and they will declare

to you the verdict in the case.

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What is to be

the Christians

relationship togovernment?

Daniel 4:17Luke 3:12-14

Romans 13:1-71 Peter 2:13-15

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Deuteronomy 17:14

When you enter the land whichthe LORD your God gives you, and

you possess it and live in it, and you

say, I will set a king over me like all

the nations who are around me,

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Deuteronomy 17:15

you shall surely set a king over youwhom the LORD your God chooses,

one from among your countrymen

you shall set as king over yourselves;

you may not put a foreigner over

yourselves who is not your country-

man.

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Moreover, he shall not multiplyhorses for himself, nor shall he cause

the people to return to Egypt to

multiply horses, since the LORD has

said to you, You shall never again

return that way. 17 He shall not

multiply wives for himself, or else his

heart will turn away; nor shall hegreatly increase silver and gold for

himself.

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Deuteronomy 17:18

Now it shall come about whenhe sits on the throne of his kingdom,

he shall write for himself a copy of

this law on a scroll in the presence of

the Levitical priests.

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It shall be with him and he shallread it all the days of his life, that he

may learn to fear the LORD his God,

by carefully observing all the words

of this law and these statutes, 20 thathis heart may not be lifted up above

his countrymen and that he may not

turn aside from the commandment, tothe right or the left, so that he and his

sons may continue long in his

kingdom in the midst of Israel.

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Laws

aboutProphets

(18:15-22)

Laws

against

Pagan

Worship

(18:9-14)

Laws for

theLevites

(18:1-8)

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Deuteronomy 18:15

The LORD your God will raiseup for you a prophet like me from

among you, from your countrymen,

you shall listen to him.

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Deuteronomy 18:16

This is according to all that youasked of the LORD your God in

Horeb on the day of the assembly,

saying, Let me not hear again the

voice of the LORD my God, let menot see this great fire anymore, or I

will die.

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The LORD said to me, Theyhave spoken well. 18 I will raise up a

prophet from among their country-

men like you, and I will put My words

in his mouth, and he shall speak tothem all that I command him.

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It shall come about that who-ever will not listen to My words which

he shall speak in My name, I Myself

will require it of him. 20 But the

prophet who speaks a wordpresumptuously in My name which I

have not commanded him to speak,

or which he speaks in the name ofother gods, that prophet shall die.'

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You may say in your heart,How will we know the word which

the LORD has not spoken?22 When

a prophet speaks in the name of the

LORD, if the thing does not comeabout or come true, that is the thing

which the LORD has not spoken. The

prophet has spoken it presumptuous-ly; you shall not be afraid of him.

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Justice & the Cities of Refuge

Regarding

witnesses(19:15-21)

Boundary

markers

(19:14)

Premeditated

murder(19:11-13)

Unintentional

manslaughter

(19:4-10)

Establishment of

the cities of refuge

(19:1-3)

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Deuteronomy 19:15

A single witness shall not riseup against a man on account of any

iniquity or any sin which he has

committed; on the evidence of two or

three witnesses a matter shall beconfirmed.

Why two or three?

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If a malicious witness rises upagainst a man to accuse him of

wrongdoing, 17 then both the men

who have the dispute shall stand

before the LORD, before the priestsand the judges who will be in office in

those days.

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The judges shall investigatethoroughly, and if the witness is a

false witness andhe has accused his

brother falsely, 19 then you shall do to

him just as he had intended to do tohis brother. Thus you shall purge the

evil from among you.

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Deuteronomy 19:21

Thus you shall not show pity:life for life, eye for eye, tooth for

tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

How does this relate to

the command of Jesus toturn the other cheek?

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Trusting

God intimes of

war

1-4

Militaryexemptions

5-9 10-15 16-18Warfare

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Military exemptions to the

man who Has built a new house and has not

dedicated it (20:5).

Has planted a vineyard and has not

begun to enjoy its fruit (20:6).

Is engaged to a woman and has not

married her (20:7).

Is afraid an faint-hearted (20:8).

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Trusting

God intimes of

war

1-4

Militaryexemptions

5-9

Terms of

peace

given to

those who

surrender

10-15

Complete

destruction

to those

living in the

land

16-18Warfare

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Deuteronomy 20:16Only in the cities of these

peoples that the LORD your God is

giving you as an inheritance, you

shall not leave alive anything that

breathes.

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Deuteronomy 20:17-19But you shall utterly destroy

them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the

Canaanite and the Perizzite, the

Hivite and the Jebusite, as the LORD

your God has commanded you, 18 sothat they may not teach you to do

according to all their detestable

things which they have done for theirgods, so that you would sin against

the LORD your God.

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Trusting

God intimes of

war

1-4

Militaryexemptions

5-9

Terms of

peace

given to

those who

surrender

10-15

Complete

destruction

to those

living in the

land

16-18Warfare

19-20

Preservation of fruit trees

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Rules of

otherkilling

(21:1-9)

Rules of

Warfare(20)

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Deuteronomy 21:1-2If a slain person is found lying in

the open country in the land which

the LORD your God gives you to

possess, andit is not known who has

struck him, 2 then your elders andyour judges shall go out and

measure the distance to the cities

which are around the slain one.

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Deuteronomy 21:3-4It shall be that the city which is

nearest to the slain man, that is, the

elders of that city, shall take a heifer

of the herd, which has not been

worked and which has not pulled in ayoke; 4 and the elders of that city

shall bring the heifer down to a valley

with running water, which has notbeen plowed or sown, and shall

break the heifer's neck there in the

valley.

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Deuteronomy 21:5Then the priests, the sons of

Levi, shall come near, for the LORD

your God has chosen them to serve

Him and to bless in the name of the

LORD; and every dispute and everyassault shall be settled by them.

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Deuteronomy 21:6-7All the elders of that city which

is nearest to the slain man shall wash

their hands over the heifer whose

neck was broken in the valley; 7 and

they shall answer and say, Ourhands did not shed this blood, nor did

our eyes see it.

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Deuteronomy 21:8-9Forgive Your people Israel whom

You have redeemed, O LORD, and

do not place the guilt of innocent

blood in the midst of Your people

Israel. And the bloodguiltiness shallbe forgiven them. 9 So you shall

remove the guilt of innocent blood

from your midst, when you do what isright in the eyes of the LORD.

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5:1 Ten Commandments

12:6Warnings

again idolatry

14:1

Related to

the first

four

commands

16:18

Laws about

worship

19:1

21:15

Ceremonial

righteousness

(toward God)

Qualifications

of leaders

War & Peace

Governmental

righteousness

Practical

righteousness

Laws of

Living

Related tothe last six

commands

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21 1 16

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Deuteronomy 21:15-16If a man has two wives, the one

loved and the other unloved, and

both the loved and the unloved have

borne him sons, if the firstborn son

belongs to the unloved, 16 then it shallbe in the day he wills what he has to

his sons, he cannot make the son of

the loved the firstborn before the sonof the unloved, who is the firstborn.

D 21 17

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Deuteronomy 21:17But he shall acknowledge the

firstborn, the son of the unloved, by

giving him a double portion of all that

he has, for he is the beginning of his

strength; to him belongs the right ofthe firstborn.

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D t 21 18 19

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Deuteronomy 21:18-19If any man has a stubborn and

rebellious son who will not obey his

father or his mother, and when they

chastise him, he will not even listen

to them, 19 then his father and mothershall seize him, and bring him out to

the elders of his city at the gateway

of his hometown.

D t 21 20 21

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Deuteronomy 21:20-21They shall say to the elders of

his city, This son of ours is stubborn

and rebellious, he will not obey us,

he is a glutton and a drunkard. 21

Then all the men of his city shallstone him to death; so you shall

remove the evil from your midst, and

all Israel will hearof itand fear.

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D t 21 22 23

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Deuteronomy 21:22-23If a man has committed a sin

worthy of death and he is put to

death, and you hang him on a tree,

23 his corpse shall not hang all night

on the tree, but you shall surely buryhim on the same day (for he who is

hanged is accursed of God), so that

you do not defile your land which theLORD your God gives you as an

inheritance.

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Deuteronomy 22:5

D t 22 5

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Deuteronomy 22:5A woman shall not wear man's

clothing, nor shall a man put on a

woman's clothing; for whoever does

these things is an abomination to the

LORD your God.

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Deuteronomy 22:8

D t 22 8

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Deuteronomy 22:8When you build a new house,

you shall make a parapet for your

roof, so that you will not bring

bloodguilt on your house if anyone

falls from it.

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Deuteronomy 22:9-11

D t 22 9 11

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Deuteronomy 22:9-11You shall not sow your vineyard

with two kinds of seed, or all the

produce of the seed which you have

sown and the increase of the

vineyard will become defiled.

10 You shall not plow with an ox

and a donkey together.

11 You shall not wear a materialmixed of wool and linen together.

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D t 23 21 22

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Deuteronomy 23:21-22When you make a vow to the

LORD your God, you shall not delay

to pay it, for it would be sin in you,

and the LORD your God will surely

require it of you. 22 However, if yourefrain from vowing, it would not be

sin in you.

De teronom 23 23

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Deuteronomy 23:23You shall be careful to perform

what goes out from your lips, just as

you have voluntarily vowed to the

LORD your God, what you have

promised.

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Deuteronomy 23:24 25

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Deuteronomy 23:24-25When you enter yourneighbors

vineyard, then you may eat grapes

until you are fully satisfied, but you

shall not put any in your basket. 25

When you enter your neighborsstanding grain, then you may pluck

the heads with your hand, but you

shall not wield a sickle in yourneighbor's standing grain.

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Deuteronomy 24:1-4

Deuteronomy 24:1 2

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Deuteronomy 24:1-2When a man takes a wife and

marries her, and it happens that she

finds no favor in his eyes because he

has found some indecency in her,

and he writes her a certificate ofdivorce and puts it in her hand and

sends her out from his house, 2 and

she leaves his house and goes andbecomes another man's wife,

Deuteronomy 24:3

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Deuteronomy 24:3and if the latter husband turns

against her and writes her a

certificate of divorce and puts itin her

hand and sends her out of his house,

or if the latter husband dies who tookher to be his wife,

Deuteronomy 24:4

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Deuteronomy 24:4then her former husband who sent

her away is not allowed to take her

again to be his wife, since she has

been defiled; for that is an

abomination before the LORD, andyou shall not bring sin on the land

which the LORD your God gives you

as an inheritance.

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Deuteronomy 24:5

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Deuteronomy 24:5When a man takes a new wife,

he shall not go out with the army nor

be charged with any duty; he shall be

free at home one year and shall give

happiness to his wife whom he hastaken.

Deuteronomy 24:6

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Deuteronomy 24:6No one shall take a handmill or

an upper millstone in pledge, for he

would be taking a life in pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:7

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Deuteronomy 24:7If a man is caught kidnapping

any of his countrymen of the sons of

Israel, and he deals with him violently

or sells him, then that thief shall die;

so you shall purge the evil fromamong you.

Deuteronomy 24:16

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Deuteronomy 24:16Fathers shall not be put to death

for their sons, nor shall sons be put

to death for their fathers; everyone

shall be put to death for his own sin.

Deuteronomy 25:4

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Deuteronomy 25:4You shall not muzzle the ox

while he is threshing.

Deuteronomy 25:13 15

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Deuteronomy 25:13-15You shall not have in your bag

differing weights, a large and a small.

14 You shall not have in your house

differing measures, a large and a

small. 15 You shall have a full and justweight; you shall have a full and just

measure, that your days may be

prolonged in the land which theLORD your God gives you.

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