Deuteronomy 22

Deuteronomy 22:1 “If you see your brother Israelite’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it; make sure you return it to your brother.

Deuteronomy 22:2 If your brother does not live near you or you don’t know him, you are to bring the animal to your home to remain with you until your brother comes looking for it; then you can return it to him.

Deuteronomy 22:3 Do the same for his donkey, his garment, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.

Deuteronomy 22:4 If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it; help him lift it.

Deuteronomy 22:5 “A woman is not to wear male clothing, and a man is not to put on a woman’s garment, for everyone who does these things is repulsive to Yahveh your God.

Deuteronomy 22:6 “If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the land along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, do not take the mother along with the young.

Deuteronomy 22:7 You may take the young for yourself, but be sure to let the mother go free so that you may prosper and live long.

Deuteronomy 22:8 If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof so that you don’t place bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

Deuteronomy 22:9 Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; or else, the entire harvest, both the crop you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will become defiled.

Deuteronomy 22:10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

Deuteronomy 22:11 Do not wear clothes made of both wool and linen.

Deuteronomy 22:12 Make tassels on the four corners of the outer garment you wear.

Deuteronomy 22:13 “If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,

Deuteronomy 22:14 and places an accusation on her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,’

Deuteronomy 22:15 the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the city gate.

Deuteronomy 22:16 The young woman’s father will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her.

Deuteronomy 22:17 Notice he has placed an accusation on her of shameful conduct, and this is what he said: “I didn’t find any evidence of your daughter’s virginity,” but here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ They will spread out the cloth before the city elders.

Deuteronomy 22:18 Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him.

Deuteronomy 22:19 They will also fine him a hundred silver shekels and give them to the young woman’s father because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

Deuteronomy 22:20 But if this accusation is true and no evidence of the young woman’s virginity is found,

Deuteronomy 22:21 they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. You see, she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous while living in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.

Deuteronomy 22:22 “If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:23 If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,

Deuteronomy 22:24 takes the two of them out to the gate of that city and stones them to death – the young woman because she did not cry out in the town and the man because he has humiliated his neighbor’s fiancée. You must purge the evil from you.

Deuteronomy 22:25 But if the man encounters an engaged woman in the open country, and he holds her firmly and rapes her, only the man who raped her must die.

Deuteronomy 22:26 Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of a failure deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

Deuteronomy 22:27 When he found her in the field, the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

Deuteronomy 22:28 If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered,

Deuteronomy 22:29 the man who raped her is to give the young woman’s father fifty silver shekels, and she will become his wife because he humiliated her. He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

Deuteronomy 22:30 “A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not violate his father’s marriage bed.

Deuteronomy 22 quotes:

“Let us never forget this ; it is a wholesome truth for every one of us. We all need to bear in mind that if God were to withdraw His sustaininsr ofrace for one moment, tliere is no depth of iniquity’ into which we are not capable of plunging; indeed, we may add — and wo do it with deep thankfulness — it is His own gracious hand that preserves us, each moment, from becoming a complete wreck in every way, — physically, mentally, morally, spiritually, and in our circumstances. May we keep this ever in the remembrance of the thoughts of our hearts, so that we may walk humbly and watchfully, and lean upon that arm which alone can sustain and preserve us.”

Mackintosh Charles Henry. Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy. Loizeaux Bros 1880. p. 341.

“The law, in the address of Moses, not only contains prohibitions, but also requires positive action on the part of the Israelites in particular circumstances. Here, it is prescribed that an Israelite offer assistance to his fellow Israelite (brother); such assistance would require personal effort and initiative. The law counters a natural human tendency not to get involved or not to go out of one’s way to help another. Two categories of assistance are noted: (a) the restoration of lost property (vv. 1–3); (b) direct aid to a neighbor in a difficult circumstance (v. 4). The principle underlying the legislation is the same in both instances.”

Craigie, Peter C.. The Book of Deuteronomy (The New International Commentary on the Old Testament) (p. 286). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. Kindle Edition.

Deuteronomy 22 links:

a distinctive people
a higher standard of mutual respect
consensual and criminal
crime in the city
in retrospect- purging the evil
in retrospect- removing the shame
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Monday, June 10, 2019
passion and shame
puffy jacket story
transvestites and mother bird theft

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Numbers 29

Numbers 29:1 “On the first day of the seventh month you will have a sacred convention. You will not do any ordinary work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets,

Numbers 29:2 and you will offer an ascending offering, for a pacifying aroma to Yahveh: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old — all perfect;

Numbers 29:3 also their tribute offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram,

Numbers 29:4 and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs;

Numbers 29:5 with one male goat for a failure offering, to provide reconciliation for you;

Numbers 29:6 besides the ascending offering of the new moon, and its tribute offering, and the regular ascending offering and its tribute offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pacifying aroma, a fire offering to Yahveh.

Numbers 29:7 “On the tenth day of this seventh month you will have a sacred convention and discipline your throats. You will do no work,

Numbers 29:8 but you will offer an ascending offering to Yahveh, a pacifying aroma: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old: See that they are perfect.

Numbers 29:9 And their tribute offering will be of fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,

Numbers 29:10 a tenth for each of the seven lambs:

Numbers 29:11 also one male goat for a failure offering, besides the failure offering of atonement, and the regular ascending offering and its tribute offering, and their drink offerings.

Numbers 29:12 “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you will have a sacred convention. You will not do any ordinary work, and you will keep a feast to Yahveh for seven days.

Numbers 29:13 And you will offer an ascending offering, a fire offering, with a pacifying aroma to Yahveh, thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they will be perfect;

Numbers 29:14 and their tribute offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams,

Numbers 29:15 and a tenth for each of the fourteen lambs;

Numbers 29:16 also one male goat for a failure offering, besides the regular ascending offering, its tribute offering and its drink offering.

Numbers 29:17 “On the second day twelve bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old — all perfect,

Numbers 29:18 with the tribute offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;

Numbers 29:19 also one male goat for a failure offering, besides the regular ascending offering and its tribute offering, and their drink offerings.

Numbers 29:20 “On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old — all perfect,

Numbers 29:21 with the tribute offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;

Numbers 29:22 also one male goat for a failure offering, besides the regular ascending offering, its tribute offering, and its drink offering.

Numbers 29:23 “On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old — all perfect,

Numbers 29:24 with the tribute offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;

Numbers 29:25 also one male goat for a failure offering, besides the regular ascending offering, its tribute offering and its drink offering.

Numbers 29:26 “On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old — all perfect,

Numbers 29:27 with the tribute offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;

Numbers 29:28 also include one male goat for a failure offering, in addition to the regular ascending offering, its tribute offering, and its drink offering.

Numbers 29:29 “On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old — all perfect,

Numbers 29:30 with the tribute offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;

Numbers 29:31 also include one male goat for a failure offering, in addition to the regular ascending offering, its tribute offering, and its drink offerings.

Numbers 29:32 “On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old — all perfect,

Numbers 29:33 with the tribute offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;

Numbers 29:34 also include one male goat as a failure offering, in addition to the regular ascending offering, its tribute offering, and its drink offering.

Numbers 29:35 “On the eighth day you will have a solemn assembly. You will not do any ordinary work,

Numbers 29:36 but you will offer an ascending offering, a fire offering, with a pacifying aroma to Yahveh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old — all perfect,

Numbers 29:37 and the tribute offering and the drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;

Numbers 29:38 also include one male goat for a failure offering, in addition to the regular ascending offering, its tribute offering, and its drink offering.

Numbers 29:39 “These you will offer to Yahveh at your appointed feasts, in addition to your solemn pledge offerings and your spontaneous voluntary offerings, for your ascending offerings, and your tribute offerings, and your drink offerings, and your offering for healthy relationships.”

Numbers 29:40 So Moses told the people of Israel everything just as Yahveh had commanded Moses.

Numbers 29 quotes:

“The lawgiver now passes in the most logical method, to define the limits of the land which Israel should regard as its inheritance, so that it should not seek to go out beyond these limits and
found a world empire (2 Sam. xxiv. ), nor rest within these boundaries until it has acquired and
occupied all the territory within them.”

Lange, Johann Peter, and Samuel T. Lowrie. Numbers: Or, the Fourth Book of Moses. New York: C. Scribner, 1899. p. 181.

“an assembly. The Heb . word ‘azereth contains nothing which implies that the assembly was of a specially solemn character. Before the exile an ‘azereth was held on the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Cakes (Dt. xvi. 8 ); and see Is. i . 13 (R.V. solemn meeting ‘), Am . v. 21. After the exile it was used , as here, of an assembly on the additional eighth dayof the Feast of Booths (Lev. xxiii . 36 , Neh . viii . 18 ) , and on a special fast day ( Joel i . 14, ii. 15) ; and the Chronicler relates that such an assembly was held as the climax of rejoicing on the eighth day ( contrast i K. viii. 66) at the dedication of Solomon’s temple (2 Ch . vii. 9) .”

McNeile, A. H., and A. F. Kirkpatrick. The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. Cambridge: University Press, 1911. p. 169.

“The offerings described are those pertaining to the feast of trumpets, the day of atonement, and the feast of tabernacles.”

Steele, Daniel, and John W. Lindsay. Leviticus and Numbers. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1891. p. 391.

Numbers 29 links:

a costly walk
a seven day feast
take a bow
Yom Teruah

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Numbers 9

Numbers 9:1 And Yahveh spoke to Moses in the open country of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, and this is what he said.

Numbers 9:2 “Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.

Numbers 9:3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you will keep it at its appointed time; according to all its prescriptions and all its rules, you will keep it.”

Numbers 9:4 So Moses told the people of Israel that they should keep the Passover.

Numbers 9:5 And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the open country of Sinai; according to all that Yahveh commanded Moses, so the people of Israel did.

Numbers 9:6 Certain men had been contaminated because they had touched a dead throat, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came in the sight of Moses and Aaron on that day.

Numbers 9:7 And those men said to him, “We are contaminated because we have touched a dead throat. Why are we kept from bringing Yahveh’s offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?”

Numbers 9:8 And Moses said to them, “Wait, that I may hear what Yahveh will command concerning you.”

Numbers 9:9 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Numbers 9:10 “Speak to the people of Israel, and this is what you should say: If any one of you or your descendants is contaminated because he has touched a dead throat, or is on a long journey, he will still keep the Passover to Yahveh.

Numbers 9:11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at twilight, they will keep it. They will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Numbers 9:12 They will leave none of it until the morning, nor break any of its bones; according to all the prescriptions for the Passover, they will keep it.

Numbers 9:13 But if anyone who is pure and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that throat will be eliminated from his people because he did not bring Yahveh’s offering at its appointed time; that man will pay for his failure.

Numbers 9:14 And if a foreign guest[1] sojourns among you and wants to keep the Passover to Yahveh, according to the prescription of the Passover and according to its rule, so will he do. You will have one prescription, both for the foreign guest and for the native.”

Numbers 9:15 On the day that the Tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the Tabernacle, the tent of the reminder. And in the evening, it was over the Tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.

Numbers 9:16 So it was always: the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night.

Numbers 9:17 And whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, after that, the people of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel camped.

Numbers 9:18 At the command of Yahveh, the people of Israel set out, and at the command of Yahveh, they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.

Numbers 9:19 Even when the cloud continued over the Tabernacle for many days, the people of Israel kept the charge of Yahweh and did not set out.

Numbers 9:20 Sometimes, the cloud stayed a few days over the Tabernacle, and according to Yahveh’s command, they remained in camp; then, according to Yahveh’s command, they set out.

Numbers 9:21 And sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning. And when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted, they set out.

Numbers 9:22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, staying there, the people of Israel remained in camp and did not set out, but when it lifted, they set out.

Numbers 9:23 At the command of Yahveh, they camped, and at the command of Yahveh, they set out. They kept the charge of Yahveh at the command of Yahveh Moses.

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[1] גֵּר = foreign guest. Numbers 9:14; 15:14, 15, 16, 26, 29, 30; 19:10; 35:15.

Numbers 9 quotes:

“The rise and fall of Passover observance is seen throughout Israel’s history as one sure test for diagnosing the nation’s spiritual health. What is true for the group is also true for the individual. Here, for perhaps the first time, the sin of omission is cited as being as heinous as the sin of commission. Namely, it is as bad not to partake when clean, as it is to partake when unclean (v. 13). The threat of “cutting off” is the same threat levied against the long list of ritual violations in Leviticus 20.”

Boyce Richard Nelson. Leviticus and Numbers. 1st ed. Westminster John Knox Press 2008. p. 132

“Hudson Taylor reminded his missionary colleagues that the Christian’s response to daunting situations was best expressed in a terse phrase: ‘Impossible? Difficult. Done!’ Those words eloquently describe the Israelite people’s experience of liberation. Humanly speaking, it was Feo impossible. As God began to work on the hardened Egyptian ruler, the situation became unquestionably difficult, but because the Lord was omnipotently at work it was miraculously done. Passover assured these pilgrims that the Lord who brought them out of one country could certainly bring them into another.”

Brown Raymond. The Message of Numbers : Journey to the Promised Land. InterVarsity Press 2002. p. 72.

“When the children of Israel had been brought out of Egypt by the goodness and power of God, Moses told them what God wanted them to do to make sure they would remember Him. He didn’t want His acts to become ordinary to them. At the Red Sea Israel had been delivered from the power of Egypt, so that they were free to journey to Canaan. But they were not so free that they could direct their own steps. The almighty God led Moses to guide them by establishing certain times in their calendar when they would remember God especially. God would always be their refuge and their stronghold, but they needed to remember this in a special way.”

Gutzke, Manford George. Plain Talk on Leviticus and Numbers. Zondervan Pub. House., 1981. p. 79.

“The Lord responded to Moses’ inquiry by allowing those Israelites to celebrate the feast on the following month. The intervening month probably allowed the defiled individuals time to observe ritual cleansing. In one final perilous reminder, the Lord warned the community to observe the feast without excuse. Failure to do so would result in death. Foreigners could observe the feast at the regular time.”

Martin, Glen, and Max E. Anders. Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers. Broadman & Holman, 2002. p. 294.

“The real and visible presence of God among his people was his response to their obedience in building the tabernacle (15). But this section is placed immediately after the account of the celebration of the second passover. The cloud of God’s presence first appeared after the first passover (Exod. 13:21–22). The tabernacle could be built only once, but the festivals of redemption were to be celebrated regularly. This narrative, therefore, looks beyond the wilderness situation, in which Israel could follow God’s leading in an immediate way, to a time when its faithfulness to the LORD would be demonstrated by their keeping of the festivals.”

Wenham, Gordon J.. Numbers: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries Book 4) (pp. 113-114). InterVarsity Press. Kindle Edition.

Numbers 9 links:

a walk remembering the LORD’s deliverance
Dead souls, dying souls
guidance for the day
seeking his solution
walking at the command of the LORD

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