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Deuteronomy 12-26Deuteronomy 12-26

© John Stevenson, 2012

1:11:1 PreamblePreamble

1:61:6 Historical PrologueHistorical Prologue

5:15:1StipulationsStipulations

12:112:1

Ten Ten CommandmentsCommandmentsRelated Related CommandmentsCommandments

27:127:1 Blessings & CursingsBlessings & Cursings

31:131:1 SuccessionSuccession

5:15:1 Ten CommandmentsTen Commandments

12:612:6Warnings Warnings again idolatryagain idolatry

14:114:1 Related Related commandscommands

16:1816:18

Laws about Laws about worshipworship

19:119:1

21:1521:15

Ceremonial Ceremonial righteousness righteousness (toward God)(toward God)

Qualifications Qualifications of leadersof leaders

War & PeaceWar & Peace

Governmental Governmental righteousnessrighteousness

Practical Practical righteousnessrighteousness

Laws of Laws of LivingLiving

Deuteronomy 12:1Deuteronomy 12:1These are the statutes and the

judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth.

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You shall utterly destroy all the places where You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations serve their gods (12:2)the nations serve their gods (12:2)

You have not yet come to the inheritance (12:9)You have not yet come to the inheritance (12:9)Don’t offer burnt offering in every cultic place you Don’t offer burnt offering in every cultic place you see, but only where I command you (12:13-14)see, but only where I command you (12:13-14)

Eat meat within any of your gates (12:15)Eat meat within any of your gates (12:15)

What you cannot eat (12:16-17)What you cannot eat (12:16-17)What you can eat (12:18-20)What you can eat (12:18-20)

Eat meat that you desire (12:20)Eat meat that you desire (12:20)If God’s place of worship is too far, worship and If God’s place of worship is too far, worship and eat within your gates (12:21)eat within your gates (12:21)

Listen to these words that it may be will with you Listen to these words that it may be will with you and your sons forever (12:28)and your sons forever (12:28)

Beware you are do not follow the nations whom Beware you are do not follow the nations whom the Lord cuts off (12:29-30)the Lord cuts off (12:29-30)

Deuteronomy 12:31Deuteronomy 12:31You shall not behave thus

toward the LORD your God, for every abominable act which the LORD hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

Deuteronomy 13:1-2Deuteronomy 13:1-2If a prophet or a dreamer of

dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,”

Deuteronomy 13:3Deuteronomy 13:3…you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you to find out if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

But even if we, or an angel from But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have gospel contrary to what we have

preached to you, he is to be preached to you, he is to be accursed! accursed! 99 As we have said As we have said before, so I say again now, if before, so I say again now, if

any man is preaching to you a any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you gospel contrary to what you

received, he is to be accursed! received, he is to be accursed! (Galatians 1:8-9).(Galatians 1:8-9).

Deuteronomy 13:6-7Deuteronomy 13:6-7If your brother, your mother's

son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end),

Deuteronomy 13:8-9Deuteronomy 13:8-9…you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him. 9 But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

Deuteronomy 13:10Deuteronomy 13:10So you shall stone him to death

because he has sought to seduce you from the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

He who loves father or mother more He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he than Me is not worthy of Me; and he

who loves son or daughter more than who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me (Matthew 10:37)Me is not worthy of Me (Matthew 10:37)

If a prophet or a dreamer calls you to worship other gods…

• Do not listen

• Put him to death

13:1

If a relative calls you to worship other

gods…

• Do not listen

• Put him to death

13:6

If inhabitants of a city call you to worship

other gods…

• Investigate

• Destroy city

• Leave waste13:12

Deuteronomy 14:1-2Deuteronomy 14:1-2You are the sons of the LORD

your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead. 2 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Be holy in Be holy in what you what you

eat eat (14:3-20)(14:3-20)

Be holy Be holy (14:1-2)(14:1-2)

Deuteronomy 14:21Deuteronomy 14:21You shall not eat anything which

dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Be holy in Be holy in how you how you

spend your spend your money money

(14:22-29)(14:22-29)

Be holy in Be holy in what you what you

eat eat (14:3-20)(14:3-20)

Be holy Be holy (14:1-2)(14:1-2)

Deuteronomy 14:22Deuteronomy 14:22You shall surely tithe all the

produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year.

rf;['rf;[' To take a tenthTo take a tenth

Deuteronomy 14:23Deuteronomy 14:23You shall eat in the presence of

the LORD your God, at the place where He chooses to establish His name, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

Deuteronomy 14:24-25Deuteronomy 14:24-25If the distance is so great for

you that you are not able to bring the tithe, since the place where the LORD your God chooses to set His name is too far away from you when the LORD your God blesses you, 25 then you shall exchange it for money, and bind the money in your hand and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses.

Deuteronomy 14:26-27Deuteronomy 14:26-27You may spend the money for

whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household. 27 Also you shall not neglect the Levite who is in your town, for he has no portion or inheritance among you.

Deuteronomy 14:28-29Deuteronomy 14:28-29At the end of every third year

you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year, and shall deposit it in your town. 29 The Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and the alien, the orphan and the widow who are in your town, shall come and eat and be satisfied, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Debts and Debts and the the

Sabbatical Sabbatical YearYear

(15:1-18)(15:1-18)

Special Special offering offering

every third every third year year

(14:28-29)(14:28-29)

General General Instructions Instructions on the Titheon the Tithe(14:22-27)(14:22-27)

Deuteronomy 15:1Deuteronomy 15:1At the end of every seven years

you shall grant a remission of debts.

Deuteronomy 15:2Deuteronomy 15:2This is the manner of remission:

every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD’S remission has been proclaimed.

Deuteronomy 15:3Deuteronomy 15:3From a foreigner you may exact

it, but your hand shall release whatever of yours is with your brother.

Deuteronomy 15:4-5Deuteronomy 15:4-5However, there will be no poor

among you, since the LORD will surely bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, 5 if only you listen obediently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today.

Why did Jesus say you always Why did Jesus say you always have the poor with you?have the poor with you?

He who steals must steal no longer; He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, but rather he must labor,

performing with his own hands performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have what is good, so that he will have something something to share with one who to share with one who

has need. (Ephesians 4:28).has need. (Ephesians 4:28).

Deuteronomy 15:6Deuteronomy 15:6For the LORD your God will

bless you as He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

Deuteronomy 15:7-8Deuteronomy 15:7-8If there is a poor man with you,

one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother; 8 but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.

Deuteronomy 15:9Deuteronomy 15:9Beware that there is no base

thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,” and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the LORD against you, and it will be a sin in you.

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“Evil”

Deuteronomy 15:10Deuteronomy 15:10You shall generously give to

him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings.

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“Evil”

Deuteronomy 15:11Deuteronomy 15:11For the poor will never cease to

be in the land; therefore I command you, saying, “You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.”

Deuteronomy 15:12Deuteronomy 15:12If your kinsman, a Hebrew man

or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall set him free.

Deuteronomy 15:13-14Deuteronomy 15:13-14When you set him free, you

shall not send him away empty-handed. 14 You shall furnish him liberally from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 15:15Deuteronomy 15:15You shall remember that you

were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.

It shall come about It shall come about if he says to you, “I if he says to you, “I will not go out from will not go out from you,” because he you,” because he

loves you and your loves you and your household, since he household, since he fares well with you fares well with you

(Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy 15:16)15:16)

……then you shall then you shall take an awl and take an awl and

pierce it through his pierce it through his ear into the door, ear into the door,

and he shall be your and he shall be your servant forever. servant forever.

Also you shall do Also you shall do likewise to your likewise to your

maidservant.maidservant.(Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy

15:17)15:17)

Firstborn(15:19-23)

Special Feast DaysSpecial Feast Days(16:1-17)(16:1-17)

Debts and Debts and the the

Sabbatical Sabbatical YearYear

(15:1-18)(15:1-18)

Special Special offering offering

every third every third year year

(14:28-29)(14:28-29)

General General Instructions Instructions on the Titheon the Tithe(14:22-27)(14:22-27)

Deuteronomy 15:19-20Deuteronomy 15:19-20You shall consecrate to the

LORD your God all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock; you shall not work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. 20 You and your household shall eat it every year before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses.

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─ ─ QadashQadash

Who is God’s firstborn today?Who is God’s firstborn today?

For those whom He foreknew, He also For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined predestined to become to become conformed to conformed to

the image of His Son, so that He would the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren be the firstborn among many brethren

(Romans 8:29).(Romans 8:29).

But you have come to Mount Zion and But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the to the city of the living God, the

heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, angels, 2323 to the general assembly and to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of and to the spirits of the the righteous made righteous made

perfect… (Hebrews 12:22-23).perfect… (Hebrews 12:22-23).

Deuteronomy 15:19-20Deuteronomy 15:19-20You shall consecrate to the

LORD your God all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock; you shall not work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. 20 You and your household shall eat it every year before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses.

Deuteronomy 16:1-2Deuteronomy 16:1-2Observe the month of Abib and

celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where the LORD chooses to establish His name.

Deuteronomy 16:5-6Deuteronomy 16:5-6You are not allowed to sacrifice

the Passover in any of your towns which the LORD your God is giving you; 6 but at the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name, you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the time that you came out of Egypt.

Passover & Week of Unleavened

Bread

• Sacrifice the Passover in the place the Lord chooses

16:1


Bread


16:1

Feast of Weeks • Freewill offering

• Rejoicing

• Stranger included

16:9


Bread


16:1

Feast of Weeks • Freewill offering

• Rejoicing


16:9

Feast of Booths • Rejoicing


16:13

Deuteronomy 16:16-17Deuteronomy 16:16-17Three times in a year all your

males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed. 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.

5:15:1 Ten CommandmentsTen Commandments

12:612:6Warnings Warnings again idolatryagain idolatry

14:114:1

Related to Related to the first the first

four four commandscommands

16:1816:18

Laws about Laws about worshipworship

19:119:1

21:1521:15

Ceremonial Ceremonial righteousness righteousness (toward God)(toward God)

Qualifications Qualifications of leadersof leaders

War & PeaceWar & Peace

Governmental Governmental righteousnessrighteousness

Practical Practical righteousnessrighteousness

Laws of Laws of LivingLiving

Related to Related to the last six the last six commandscommands

Deuteronomy 16:18Deuteronomy 16:18You shall appoint for yourself

judges 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.

Deuteronomy 16:19Deuteronomy 16:19You shall not distort justice; you

shall 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.

Deuteronomy 16:20Deuteronomy 16:20Justice, and only justice, you

shall pursue, that you may live and possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 16:21-22Deuteronomy 16:21-22You shall not

plant 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 for yourself a sacred pillar which the LORD your God hates.

……detestable detestable sacrifices (17:1)sacrifices (17:1)

……idolatryidolatry(17:2-5)(17:2-5)

……idolatryidolatry(16:21-22)(16:21-22)

Avoid…Avoid…

Appoint just Appoint just judgesjudges

(16:18-20)(16:18-20)

Deuteronomy 17:2-3Deuteronomy 17:2-3If there is found in your midst, in

any 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 the moon or any of the heavenly host, which I have not commanded,

Deuteronomy 17:4-5Deuteronomy 17:4-5…and if it is told you and you have heard 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 the woman, and you shall stone them to death.

Deuteronomy 17:6Deuteronomy 17:6On the evidence of two

witnesses 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.

Deuteronomy 17:7Deuteronomy 17:7The hand of the witnesses shall

be 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.

Deuteronomy 17:8Deuteronomy 17:8If any case is too difficult for you

to 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 LORD your God chooses.

Deuteronomy 17:9Deuteronomy 17:9So you shall come to the

Levitical 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.

What is to be What is to be the Christian’s the Christian’s relationship to relationship to government?government?

Daniel 4:17Daniel 4:17Luke 3:12-14Luke 3:12-14

Romans 13:1-7Romans 13:1-71 Peter 2:13-151 Peter 2:13-15

Deuteronomy 17:14Deuteronomy 17:14When you enter the land which

the 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,”

Deuteronomy 17:15Deuteronomy 17:15…you shall surely set a king over you whom 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.

Deuteronomy 17:16-17Deuteronomy 17:16-17Moreover, he shall not multiply

horses 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 he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.

Deuteronomy 17:18Deuteronomy 17:18Now it shall come about when

he 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.

Deuteronomy 17:19-20Deuteronomy 17:19-20It shall be with him and he shall

read 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 that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.

Laws Laws about about

Prophets Prophets (18:15-22)(18:15-22)

Laws Laws against against Pagan Pagan

Worship Worship (18:9-14)(18:9-14)

Laws for Laws for the the

Levites Levites (18:1-8)(18:1-8)

Deuteronomy 18:15Deuteronomy 18:15The LORD your God will raise

up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.

Deuteronomy 18:16Deuteronomy 18:16This is according to all that you

asked 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 me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.”

Deuteronomy 18:17-18Deuteronomy 18:17-18The LORD said to me, “They

have 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 to them all that I command him.

Deuteronomy 18:19-20Deuteronomy 18:19-20It 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 word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.'

Deuteronomy 18:21-22Deuteronomy 18:21-22You 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 come about 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.

Justice & the Cities of RefugeJustice & the Cities of Refuge

Regarding Regarding witnesseswitnesses(19:15-21)(19:15-21)

Boundary Boundary markersmarkers(19:14)(19:14)

Premeditated Premeditated murdermurder

(19:11-13)(19:11-13)

Unintentional Unintentional manslaughter manslaughter

(19:4-10)(19:4-10)

Establishment of Establishment of the cities of refuge the cities of refuge

(19:1-3)(19:1-3)

Deuteronomy 19:15Deuteronomy 19:15A single witness shall not rise

up 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 be confirmed.

Why “two or three?”

Deuteronomy 19:16-17Deuteronomy 19:16-17If a malicious witness rises up

against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing, 17 then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days.

Deuteronomy 19:18-19Deuteronomy 19:18-19The judges shall investigate

thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has accused his brother falsely, 19 then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 19:21Deuteronomy 19:21Thus 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 to

turn the other cheek?

Trusting Trusting God in God in

times of times of warwar

1-41-4

Military Military exemptionsexemptions

5-95-9 10-1510-15 16-1816-18WarfareWarfare

Military exemptions to the Military exemptions to the man who…man who…

• Has built a new house and has not Has built a new house and has not dedicated it (20:5).dedicated it (20:5).

• Has planted a vineyard and has not Has planted a vineyard and has not begun to enjoy its fruit (20:6).begun to enjoy its fruit (20:6).

• Is engaged to a woman and has not Is engaged to a woman and has not married her (20:7).married her (20:7).

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

Trusting Trusting God in God in

times of times of warwar

1-41-4

Military Military exemptionsexemptions

5-95-9

Terms of Terms of peace peace

given to given to those who those who surrendersurrender

10-1510-15

Complete Complete destruction destruction

to those to those living in the living in the

landland

16-1816-18WarfareWarfare

Deuteronomy 20:16Deuteronomy 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.

Deuteronomy 20:17-19Deuteronomy 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 so that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would sin against the LORD your God.

Rules of Rules of other other killing killing

(21:1-9)(21:1-9)

Rules of Rules of Warfare Warfare

(20)(20)

Deuteronomy 21:1-2Deuteronomy 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, and it is not known who has struck him, 2 then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.

Deuteronomy 21:3-4Deuteronomy 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 a yoke; 4 and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

Deuteronomy 21:5Deuteronomy 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 every assault shall be settled by them.

Deuteronomy 21:6-7Deuteronomy 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, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.”

Deuteronomy 21:8-9Deuteronomy 21:8-9…“Forgive 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 shall be forgiven them. 9 So you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 21:15-17Deuteronomy 21:15-17

Deuteronomy 21:15-16Deuteronomy 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 shall be in the day he wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn.

Deuteronomy 21:17Deuteronomy 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 of the firstborn.

Deuteronomy 21:18-19Deuteronomy 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 mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

Deuteronomy 21:20-21Deuteronomy 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 shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear of it and fear.

Deuteronomy 21:22-23Deuteronomy 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 bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 22:5Deuteronomy 22:5

Deuteronomy 22:5Deuteronomy 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.

Deuteronomy 22:8Deuteronomy 22:8

Deuteronomy 22:8Deuteronomy 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.

Deuteronomy 22:9-11Deuteronomy 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 material mixed of wool and linen together.

Deuteronomy 23:21-22Deuteronomy 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 you refrain from vowing, it would not be sin in you.

Deuteronomy 23:23Deuteronomy 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.

Deuteronomy 23:24-25Deuteronomy 23:24-25When you enter your neighbor’s

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 neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain.

Deuteronomy 24:1-2Deuteronomy 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 of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, 2 and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife,

Deuteronomy 24:3Deuteronomy 24:3…and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,

Deuteronomy 24:4Deuteronomy 24:4…then 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, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 24:5Deuteronomy 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 has taken.

Deuteronomy 24:6Deuteronomy 24:6No one shall take a handmill or

an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:7Deuteronomy 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 from among you.

Deuteronomy 24:16Deuteronomy 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 25:4Deuteronomy 25:4You shall not muzzle the ox

while he is threshing.

Deuteronomy 25:13-15Deuteronomy 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 just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

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