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• Published on 27 Apr 11

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• Published on 27 Apr 11

DeuteronomyWeek Date Topic

1 09 Mar 11 Chapter 1:1-2:23 – Introduction and Moses’ Address

2 16 Mar 11 Chapter 2:24-4:43 - Conquest, Transition, Covenant

3 23 Mar 11 Chapter 4:44-6:25 – The Law

4 30 Mar 11 Chapter 7:1-11:32 – Application of the Principles

5 06 Apr 11 Chapter 12:1-14:21 – First Three Commandments

6 13 Apr 11 Chapter 14:22-18:22 – 4th and 5th Commandments

7 20 Apr 11 Chapter 19:1-23:14 – 6th and 7th Commandments

8 27 Apr 11 Chapter 23:15-25:19– 8th thru 10th Commandments

9 04 May 11 Chapter 26:1-27:26 – Covenant law and preparation

10 11 May 11 Senior Blessing – No classes

11 18 May 11 Chapter 28:1-68 – Blessings and Curses

12 25 May 11 Chapter 29:1-30:20 – Moses’ Final Address

13 01 Jun 11 Chapter 31:1-34:12 – Moses’ Final Actions

Key Points for Today’s Lesson• Review last week’s class found in Chapter 19-23• Review various laws found in Deuteronomy 23-25

– Slaves– Vows– Providing for the poor– Treatment of others– Charging interest– Various laws within families

• Learn about laws of Marriage and Divorce

Last Week• Reviewed more laws related to the 6th and

7th commandments

• Learned about application of the laws of manslaughter and witnesses

• Reviewed what the Bible says about war

• Reviewed laws about unsolved murders

• Learned about limits placed on a husband and father’s authority

• Reviewed illustrations of principles concerning adultery

Hebrew Calendar

• Israel to provide Asylum foreign escaped slaves (vs. 15-16)– Referring to slaves from a foreign land

• Sacred prostitution banned (vs. 17-18)– Common among pagan religions of the Canaanites– In the reign of Asa and Josiah, the perverted persons

are expelled from Israel (1 Ki 15:12; 2 Ki 23:7)– Money received from temple prostitutes was given to

the temple priests

• Charge no interest to a fellow Israelite (vs. 19-20)– Could charge interest to a foreigner

Miscellaneous Laws (23:15-20)

• Importance of keeping vows (vs. 21-23)– God commands that Israel should be careful and keep

its vows and fulfill every oath made– Are vows or oaths permitted today?

• Read what Matthew 5:34-37 said and also James 5:12• To God but not to man?

• Right to gather limited amounts from a neighbor’s field or vineyard (vs. 24-25)– A traveler could pick a few grapes or heads of grain

Miscellaneous Laws (23:21-25)

• Law of divorce in ancient Israel (vs. 1)– Divorce was allowed in Israel, but regulated– Grant a certificate of divorce; legal recognition– For uncleaness; in Jesus time, Rabbis even considered a

bad meal as a good reason– Jesus defined it in Matt 19:9, sexual immorality

• Law of remarriage in ancient Israel (vs. 2-4)– A divorced woman who marries again cannot return to

her husband

• Law of honoring marriage (vs. 5)– Man who takes a new wife, no war for a year

Divorce, Remarriage, and Marriage (24:1-5)

• Do not take someone’s livelihood as a pledge (vs. 6)– Items that would be needed to help finance repaying

• Punishment for kidnapping (vs. 7)– Kidnapping fellow Israelites resulted in death

• React quickly to a leprosy outbreak (vs. 8-9)– Follow the laws contained in Leviticus 13-14– Example of Miriam, from Numbers 12

• Handling a pledge in the right way (vs. 10-13)– Regarding collateral for a loan– Don’t be greedy even with collateral

Other Laws (24:6-13)

• Command to pay workers (vs. 14-15)– Do not oppress a worker– Pay their wages each day

• Each person judged for their own sins (vs. 16)– A person will only be put to death for their own sins,

not the sins of the parents or children

• Command to be compassionate (vs. 17-18)– Remembering how God had blessed them

• Leave behind something for the poor (vs. 19-22)– Do not completely harvest the fields– To help feed the poor

Fairness (24:14-22)

• Limit on corporal punishment (vs. 1-3)– Courts were to justify the righteousness and condemn

the guilty– The guilty man cannot be given more than 40 lashes– See 2 Cor 11:24 regarding Paul’s credentials

• Command to not muzzle the ox (vs. 5)– Human treatment of a working animal

Laws to Protect (25:1-4)

• Obligations of surviving brothers (vs. 5-10)– If brothers with families live together and one dies,

the other must marry the deceased brother’s wife if they have not son

– If he refuses, he and his descendents will be scorned

• Wives forbidden to interfere in their husband’s fights (vs. 11-12)

• Correct weights and measures (vs. 13-16)• Command to destroy Amalek (vs. 17-19)

– Amalek attacked the Israelites in Exodus 17– Joshua eventually led Israel in victory over Amalek

Laws in Family Matters (25:5-19)

Review• Reviewed various laws found in Deuteronomy 23-

25– Slaves– Vows– Providing for the poor– Treatment of others– Charging interest– Various laws within families

• Learned about laws of Marriage and Divorce• Next week: Chapter 26-27 – Covenant Law and

Preparation