Deuteronomy 28

Deuteronomy 28:1 “Now if you faithfully obey Yahveh your God and are careful to do all his commands I am commanding you today, Yahveh your God will put you far above all the nations of the land.

Deuteronomy 28:2 All these empowerments will come and overtake you because you obey Yahveh your God:

Deuteronomy 28:3 You will be empowered in the city and empowered in the country.

Deuteronomy 28:4 Your offspring will be empowered, and your land’s produce, and the offspring of your livestock, including the young of your herds and the newborn of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 28:5 Your basket and kneading bowl will be empowered.

Deuteronomy 28:6 You will be empowered when you come in and empowered when you go out.

Deuteronomy 28:7 “Yahveh will cause the enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but run away from you in seven directions.

Deuteronomy 28:8 Yahveh will command for you empowerment on your barns and on everything you do; he will empower you in the land Yahveh your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:9 Yahveh will establish you as his sacred people, as he swore to you, if you watch the commands of Yahveh your God and walk in his ways.

Deuteronomy 28:10 Then all the peoples of the land will see that you bear Yahveh’s name, and they will stand in awe of you.

Deuteronomy 28:11 Yahveh will make your prosperity survive[1] with offspring, the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce in the land Yahveh swore to your fathers to give you.

Deuteronomy 28:12 Yahveh will open for you his abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to empower all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

Deuteronomy 28:13 Yahveh will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to Yahveh, your God’s commands, which I am commanding you today, and are careful to follow them.

Deuteronomy 28:14 Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today, and do not follow other gods to worship them.

Deuteronomy 28:15 “But if you disobey Yahveh your God by carefully following all his commands and prescriptions I am giving you today, all these afflictions will come and overtake you:

Deuteronomy 28:16 You will be afflicted with a curse in the city and afflicted with a curse in the country.

Deuteronomy 28:17 Your basket and kneading bowl will be afflicted with a curse.

Deuteronomy 28:18 Your offspring will be afflicted with a curse, and your land’s produce, the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 28:19 You will be afflicted with a curse when you come in and afflicted with a curse when you go out.

Deuteronomy 28:20 Yahveh will send against you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you do until you are exterminated and quickly destroyed because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning me.

Deuteronomy 28:21 Yahveh will make pestilence cling to you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to take possession of.

Deuteronomy 28:22 Yahveh will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought, blight, and mildew; these will pursue you until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:23 The sky above you will be bronze, and the land beneath you iron.

Deuteronomy 28:24 Yahveh will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are exterminated.

Deuteronomy 28:25 Yahveh will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but run away from them in seven directions. You will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the land.

Deuteronomy 28:26 Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.

Deuteronomy 28:27 “Yahveh will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured.

Deuteronomy 28:28 Yahveh will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion,

Deuteronomy 28:29 so that at noon you will grope as a blind person gropes in the dark. You will not be successful in anything you do. You will certainly be exploited and robbed continually, and no one will help you.

Deuteronomy 28:30 You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not stay in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away from you and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you.

Deuteronomy 28:32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.

Deuteronomy 28:33 A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be exploited and crushed continually.

Deuteronomy 28:34 You will be driven mad by what you see.

Deuteronomy 28:35 Yahveh will afflict you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and thighs– from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

Deuteronomy 28:36 “Yahveh will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28:37 You will become an object of desolation, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where Yahveh will drive you.

Deuteronomy 28:38 “You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

Deuteronomy 28:39 You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes because worms will eat them.

Deuteronomy 28:40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not moisten your skin with oil, because your olives will drop off.

Deuteronomy 28:41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours because they will be taken prisoner.

Deuteronomy 28:42 Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce.

Deuteronomy 28:43 The guest among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:44 He will lend to you, but you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

Deuteronomy 28:45 “All these afflictions will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are exterminated, since you disobeyed Yahveh your God and watch the commands and prescriptions he gave you.

Deuteronomy 28:46 These curses will be a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants permanently.

Deuteronomy 28:47 Because you didn’t serve Yahveh your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything,

Deuteronomy 28:48 you will serve your enemies Yahveh will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until he has exterminated you.

Deuteronomy 28:49 Yahveh will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the land, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a country whose language you won’t understand,

Deuteronomy 28:50 a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young.

Deuteronomy 28:51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are exterminated. They will leave you no grain, new wine, fresh oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:52 They will besiege you within all your city gates until the high and fortified walls that you trust in come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your city gates throughout the land Yahveh your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 28:53 “You will eat your offspring, the meat of your sons and daughters Yahveh your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.

Deuteronomy 28:54 The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the survivors of his children,

Deuteronomy 28:55 refusing to share with any of them his children’s meat that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.

Deuteronomy 28:56 The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the land because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,

Deuteronomy 28:57 the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your city gates.

Deuteronomy 28:58 “If you are not careful to watch all the words of this instruction, which are written in this scroll, by fearing this glorious and awe-inspiring name – Yahveh, your God –

Deuteronomy 28:59 and Yahveh will bring overwhelming plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

Deuteronomy 28:60 He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you.

Deuteronomy 28:61 Yahveh will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this instruction until you are exterminated.

Deuteronomy 28:62 Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people because you disobeyed Yahveh, your God.

Deuteronomy 28:63 Just as Yahveh was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so he will also be glad to cause you to be destroyed and to exterminate you. You will be ripped out of the land you are entering to take possession of.

Deuteronomy 28:64 Then Yahveh will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the land to the other, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Deuteronomy 28:65 You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There, Yahveh will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a lethargic throat.

Deuteronomy 28:66 Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, never sure of survival.

Deuteronomy 28:67 In the morning, you will say, ‘If only it were evening! ‘ and in the evening, you will say, ‘If only it were morning! ‘– because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see.

Deuteronomy 28:68 Yahveh will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. There, you will try to sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

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Deuteronomy 28 quotes:

“The blessings (vv. 1–14) and curses (vv. 15–68) of chapter 28 follow the pattern of Ancient Near Eastern treaties in seeking to motivate loyalty and obedience in the subjects of the conquering king.

But within the Pentateuch, the unity and concept of blessing and curse drives the narrative from Genesis (the fivefold blessing given to Abraham at 12:1–3, reversing the fivefold curse of Gen. 3 – 11); the blessing of Jacob (Gen. 49:1–33); Leviticus 26:1–13 (blessings); Leviticus 26:14–46 (curses); and Deuteronomy 27 – 28, 32 – 33.91 Therefore, the assumption behind the blessings and curses within the Pentateuch is the sovereignty of Yahweh (monotheism) in all the affairs of life. This especially relates to the Lord’s covenant with Abraham and his progeny to give them a land (Gen. 12:1–3). But in order to possess this promise in all its fullness, Israel must replicate Abraham’s obedience to all of the Lord’s commands (cf. Gen. 26:5; Deut. 28:1, 15, 58). The main sin that will undo this blessing and incur Yahweh’s curses will be Israel’s proclivity to go after other gods and serve them (28:14). Within chapter 28, the curses are four times longer than the blessings (cf. Lev. 26:14–46; three times longer than the blessings), which initially may have served the purpose of motivating obedience to the laws of chapters 5 – 28 (cf. 29:19–21). But it may also suggest that Israel will fail in its attempt to keep the demands of the covenant (cf. 31:14–29). Even though the curses will inevitably follow the blessings (30:1), God’s grace will also prevail in the possibility of Israel’s return to the Lord (30:1–10), suggesting that the curses were not always logical or irreversible in their desired and rhetorical effects. Finally, the terms of the covenant (28:69 [MT]; 29:1 [ET]) from chapters 5 – 28 were to be understood as a new embodiment or renewal of the Horeb covenant, and not its replacement.”

Woods, Edward J.. Deuteronomy: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries Book 5) . InterVarsity Press. Kindle Edition.

“The conclusion to the specific stipulations (26:16–19) was followed in the address by instructions relating to the future renewal of the covenant in the vicinity of Shechem, after the initial stages of the conquest. In that future renewal ceremony, blessings and curses would be declared to the people (27:11–26). Now the focus in the address of Moses returns to the present moment, and in ch. 28 the substance of the address is an exhortation based upon the blessings and curses pronounced during the renewal of the covenant on the plains of Moab.”

Craigie, Peter C.. The Book of Deuteronomy (The New International Commentary on the Old Testament) (p. 335). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. Kindle Edition.

Deuteronomy 28 links:

a godforsaken condition
a responsible people
a sign and a wonder
bearing his name
better homes and gardens
doubt and dread
exploitation and crushing
exterminate!
futility
glad to
he’d be glad to
heads or tails?
holy terrors
in retrospect- health and prosperity
in retrospect- what if?
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missing variable
oppression and domination
prosperous instead of predators
stipulations
The sky above – shamayim, the land beneath – erets
trapped in a lifestyle
trapped in Ebal
within the contest

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Deuteronomy 25

Deuteronomy 25:1 “If there is a dispute between men, they are to go seek justice, and the judges will hear their case. They will clear the innocent and condemn the guilty.

Deuteronomy 25:2 If the guilty party deserves to be flogged, the judge will make him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes appropriate for his crime.

Deuteronomy 25:3 He may be flogged with forty lashes, but none added to it. Or else, if he is flogged with lashes added to these, your brother will be degraded in your sight.

Deuteronomy 25:4 “Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.

Deuteronomy 25:5 “When brothers live on the same property and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry illegitimately outside the family. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

Deuteronomy 25:6 The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

Deuteronomy 25:7 But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.’

Deuteronomy 25:8 The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, ‘I don’t want to marry her,’

Deuteronomy 25:9 then his sister-in-law will go up to him in the sight of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. Then she will answer, ‘This is what is done to a man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

Deuteronomy 25:10 And his family name in Israel will be ‘The house of the man whose sandal was removed.’

Deuteronomy 25:11 “If two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and holds his genitals firmly,

Deuteronomy 25:12 you are to cut off her hand. Do not show pity.

Deuteronomy 25:13 “Do not have differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.

Deuteronomy 25:14 Do not have differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.

Deuteronomy 25:15 You must have a complete and ethical weight, a full and ethical dry measure, so that you may live long in the land Yahveh your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 25:16 For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is repulsive to Yahveh your God.

Deuteronomy 25:17 “Remember what the Amalekites did to you on the journey after you left Egypt.

Deuteronomy 25:18 They met you along the way and attacked all your stragglers from behind when you were tired and weary. They did not fear God.

Deuteronomy 25:19 When Yahveh, your God, gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land Yahveh, your God, is giving you to take possession of as an inheritance, blot out the memory of Amalek under the sky. Do not forget.

Deuteronomy 25 quotes:

“Initially, the account about Amalek appears to be an unconnected topic. The law commands Israel to remember what Amalek did to Israel in the wilderness on their way out of Egypt. The older account in Exodus 17:8–16 relates how Amalek attacked Israel, and was defeated by Joshua as Moses held up the staff of God in his hands. From a structural point of view, this passage may be seen as a frame to 12:9–10 in terms of what Israel must do when it experiences rest from all the enemies around you, thus forming a frame around the entire body of cultic and social laws in chapters 12 – 25. The frame to the present passage of remember (v. 17a) and do not forget (v. 19b) calls Israel to a matter of unfinished business with Amalek, her archetypal enemy (cf. 1 Sam. 15:1–3; 30:1–31). Israel is to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven (cf. 12:3; wipe out their names). But verse 18 adds important details to the original account, and brings it under the theme of the tenth commandment and the prohibition of desiring what belongs to the poor and powerless. Amalek’s crime was in desiring and taking advantage of a people when they were weak, powerless and unable to defend themselves (Olson 1994: 114).”

Woods, Edward J.. Deuteronomy: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries Book 5) . InterVarsity Press. Kindle Edition.

“The legislation concerning levirate marriage is peculiar to the presentation of the law in Deuteronomy; the practice, however, was an old one,5 and here it is given legal authority in the covenant community of Israel. The passage falls into two sections: (i) the legislation concerning levirate marriage is stated (vv. 5–6); (ii) the procedure is stated which is to be followed in the event that a man was unwilling to fulfil his responsibilities (vv. 7–10).”

Craigie, Peter C.. The Book of Deuteronomy (The New International Commentary on the Old Testament) (pp. 313-314). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. Kindle Edition.

Deuteronomy 25 links:

Clarifying Evangelical Conditionalism
fair is faithful
flogged with forty
in retrospect- remembering the past
protecting joy
protecting the right to reproduce
sandal and spit
strongholds among us
The sky above – shamayim, the land beneath – erets

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Deuteronomy 24

Deuteronomy 24:1 “If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, he may write her a divorce certificate, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.

Deuteronomy 24:2 If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife,

Deuteronomy 24:3 and the second man hates her, writes her a divorce certificate, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies,

Deuteronomy 24:4 the first husband who sent her away may not marry her again after she has been defiled, because that would be repulsive to Yahveh. You must not cause failures on the land Yahveh, your God, is giving you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 24:5 “When a man takes a bride, he must not go out with the army or be liable for any duty. He is free to stay at home for one year so that he can bring joy to the wife he has married.

Deuteronomy 24:6 “Do not take a pair of grindstones or even the upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a throat as security.

Deuteronomy 24:7 “If a man is discovered stealing a throat of one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from you.

Deuteronomy 24:8 “Be careful with a person who has a case of severe skin disease, watching carefully everything the Levitical priests instruct you to do. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.

Deuteronomy 24:9 Remember what Yahveh your God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.

Deuteronomy 24:10 “When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security.

Deuteronomy 24:11 Stand outside while the man you are making the loan to brings the security out to you.

Deuteronomy 24:12 If he is a poor man, do not lie down with the garment he has given as security.

Deuteronomy 24:13 Be sure to return it to him at sunset. Then he will lie down in it and celebrate you, and this will be counted as righteousness to you before Yahveh, your God.

Deuteronomy 24:14 “Do not exploit[1] a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether one of your Israelite brothers or one of the guests in a town in your land.

Deuteronomy 24:15 You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets because he is poor and his throat depends on them. Otherwise, he will cry out to Yahveh against you, and you will be held guilty of the failure.

Deuteronomy 24:16 “Fathers are not to be put to death for their children, and children are not to be put to death for their fathers; each person will be put to death for his failure.

Deuteronomy 24:17 Do not deny justice to a guest or fatherless child, and do not take a widow’s garment as security.

Deuteronomy 24:18 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahveh, your God, redeemed you from there. Therefore, I am commanding you to do this.

Deuteronomy 24:19 “When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the guest, the fatherless, and the widow, so that Yahveh your God may empower you in all the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 24:20 When you knock down the fruit from your olive tree, do not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the guest, the fatherless, and the widow.

Deuteronomy 24:21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not glean what is left. What remains will be for the guest, the fatherless, and the widow.

Deuteronomy 24:22 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

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[1]עָשַׁק = exploit. Deuteronomy 24:14; 28:29, 33.

Deuteronomy 24 quotes:

“If the man decided to divorce the woman, he was to write out a bill of divorce and formally serve it on the woman. She was then sent away from the man’s house, but possession of the bill of divorce gave her a certain protection under law from any further action by the man, In the situation envisaged by this particular piece of legislation, the divorced woman then remarries another man. The second marriage is terminated, either by a second divorce or by the death of the second husband. Now comes the specific legislation: under all these circumstances, the first man may not remarry his former wife. After she has been defiled—the language (defiled) suggests adultery (see Lev. 18:20). The sense is that the woman’s remarriage after the first divorce is similar to adultery in that the woman cohabits with another man. However, if the woman were then to remarry her first husband, after divorcing the second, the analogy with adultery would become even more complete; the woman lives first with one man, then another, and finally returns to the first. Thus the intent of the legislation seems to be to apply certain restrictions on the already existing practice of divorce.”

Craigie, Peter C.. The Book of Deuteronomy (The New International Commentary on the Old Testament) (p. 305). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. Kindle Edition.

“This is not a general law permitting divorce or setting forth grounds for it, but simply takes the practice of divorce for granted (cf. 22:19, 29). The case is therefore a special one, framed in a casuistic fashion (as an ‘if ’ or hypothetical situation). The first three verses are the protasis (‘if ’ section), describing a situation of successive marriages that have terminated. Then verse 4 contains the apodosis (‘then’ section) which supplies the consequence to verses 1–3, and brings the law to a conclusion.”

Woods, Edward J.. Deuteronomy: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries Book 5) . InterVarsity Press. Kindle Edition.

Deuteronomy 24 links:

daily wages rule
fair to everyone
in retrospect- remembering the past
jobs and the will of God
leftovers
never less than the best
poverty and dignity
remember Miriam
work and marriage

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Deuteronomy 23

Deuteronomy 23:1 “No man whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been eliminated may enter Yahveh’s collected assembly.

Deuteronomy 23:2 No one of illegitimate birth may enter Yahveh’s collected assembly; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter Yahveh’s collected assembly.

Deuteronomy 23:3 No Ammonite or Moabite may enter Yahveh’s collected assembly; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter Yahveh’s collected assembly permanently.

Deuteronomy 23:4 This is because they did not meet you with food and water on the journey after you came out of Egypt and because Balaam, son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim, was hired to curse you.

Deuteronomy 23:5 Yet Yahveh, your God, would not listen to Balaam, but he turned the affliction into empowerment for you because Yahveh, your God, cares about you.

Deuteronomy 23:6 Never pursue their welfare or prosperity all your days – permanently.

Deuteronomy 23:7 Do not despise an Edomite, because he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian because you were a guest in his land.

Deuteronomy 23:8 The children born to them in the third generation may enter Yahveh’s collected assembly.

Deuteronomy 23:9 “When you are encamped against your enemies, be careful to avoid anything offensive.

Deuteronomy 23:10 If there is a man among you who is not pure because of a bodily emission during the night, he must go outside the camp; he may not come anywhere inside the camp.

Deuteronomy 23:11 When evening approaches, he is to wash with water, and when the sun sets, he may come inside the camp.

Deuteronomy 23:12 You are to have a place outside the camp and go there to relieve yourself.

Deuteronomy 23:13 You are to have a digging tool in your equipment; when you relieve yourself, dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement.

Deuteronomy 23:14 You see, Yahveh, your God, walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you, so your encampments must be sacred. He must not see anything indecent among you, or he will turn away from you.

Deuteronomy 23:15 “Do not return a slave to his master when he has escaped from his master to you.

Deuteronomy 23:16 Let him stay among you wherever he wants within your city gates. Do not mistreat him.

Deuteronomy 23:17 “No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.

Deuteronomy 23:18 Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s earnings into the house of Yahveh your God to fulfill any solemn pledge because both are repulsive to Yahveh your God.

Deuteronomy 23:19 “Do not charge your brother interest on silver, food, or anything that can earn interest.

Deuteronomy 23:20 You may charge a foreigner interest. Still, you must not charge your brother Israelite interest so that Yahveh, your God, may empower you in everything you do in the land you are entering to take possession of.

Deuteronomy 23:21 “If you make a solemn pledge to Yahveh your God, do not be slow to keep it, because he will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as a failure.

Deuteronomy 23:22 But if you refrain from making a vow, it will not be counted against you as a failure.

Deuteronomy 23:23 Be careful to do whatever comes from your lips because you have spontaneously voluntarily vowed what you promised to Yahveh, your God.

Deuteronomy 23:24 “When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want until you are full, but do not put any in your container.

Deuteronomy 23:25 When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck heads of grain with your hand, but do not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.

Deuteronomy 23 quotes:

“We are persuaded that every true servant of Christ must be a man of one idea, and that idea is Christ; he must belong to the very oldest school — the school of Christ ; he must be as narrow as the truth of God; and he must, with stern decision, refuse to move one hair’s breadth in the direction of this infidel age. We cannot shake off the conviction that the effort on the part of the preachers and teachers of Christendom to keep abreast of the literature of the day must, to a very large extent, account for the rapid advance of rationalism and infidelity. They have got away from the holy Scriptures, and sought to adorn their ministry by the resources of philosophy, science, and literature. They have catered more for the intellect than for the heart and conscience. The pure and precious doctrines of holy Scripture, the sincere milk of the Word, the gospel of the grace of God and of the glory of Christ, were found insufficient to attract and keep together large congregations.”

Mackintosh Charles Henry. Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy. Loizeaux Bros 1880. p. 349.

“The common theme running through the laws contained in this section1 is the question of admission to the assembly of the Lord (vv. 2, 3, 4, 9). The assembly (qāhāl) of the Lord refers to the covenant people of God, particularly when they are gathered in his presence. Although the normal use of the noun (and the related verb) in Deuteronomy appears in a context dealing with Horeb/Sinai,2 here the word has general reference to Israel as a worshipping community.3 Thus to enter the assembly of the Lord would indicate a person who became a true Israelite and who therefore shared in the worship of the Lord. The expression is somewhat narrower in its intent than Israel, taksn as a whole, for there would be resident aliens and others who, though a part of the community,4 were nevertheless not full members of it.”

Craigie, Peter C.. The Book of Deuteronomy (The New International Commentary on the Old Testament) (p. 296). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. Kindle Edition.

Deuteronomy 23 links:

do not enter
free and clear
in retrospect- God is looking
in retrospect- remembering the past
limited enrollment
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one citizenry
people of our word
sacred septic
usurping the harvest

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