Deuteronomy 21-23; Psalms 60
One Story That Leads to Jesus, Day 60
Deuteronomy 21
21"When you are in the land the LORD your God is giving you, someone may be found murdered in a field, and you don't know who committed the murder.H4672H2491H127H3068H430H5414H3423H5307H7704H3045H52212In such a case, your elders and judges must measure the distance from the site of the crime to the nearby towns.H2205H8199H3318H4058H5892H5439H24913When the nearest town has been determined, that town's elders must select from the herd a young cow that has never been trained or yoked to a plow.H5892H7138H2491H2205H5892H3947H1241H5697H5647H4900H59234They must lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and that has a stream running through it. There in the valley they must break the young cow's neck.H2205H5892H3381H5697H386H5158H5647H2232H6202H5697H6202H51585Then the Levitical priests must step forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister before him and to pronounce blessings in the LORD's name. They are to decide all legal and criminal cases.H3548H1121H3878H5066H3068H430H977H8334H1288H8034H3068H6310H7379H50616"The elders of the town must wash their hands over the young cow whose neck was broken.H2205H5892H7138H2491H7364H3027H5697H6202H51587Then they must say, 'Our hands did not shed this person's blood, nor did we see it happen.H6030H559H3027H8210H1818H5869H72008O LORD, forgive your people Israel whom you have redeemed. Do not charge your people with the guilt of murdering an innocent person.' Then they will be absolved of the guilt of this person's blood.H3722H3068H5971H3478H6299H5414H5355H1818H5971H3478H7130H1818H37229By following these instructions, you will do what is right in the LORD's sight and will cleanse the guilt of murder from your community.H1197H5355H1818H7130H6213H3477H5869H306810"Suppose you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD your God hands them over to you, and you take some of them as captives.H3318H4421H341H3068H430H5414H3027H7617H762811And suppose you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her and want to marry her.H7200H7633H8389H3303H802H2836H3947H80212If this happens, you may take her to your home, where she must shave her head, cut her nails,H935H8432H1004H1548H7218H6213H685613and change the clothes she was wearing when she was captured. She will stay in your home, but let her mourn for her father and mother for a full month. Then you may marry her, and you will be her husband and she will be your wife.H5493H8071H7628H3427H1004H1058H1H517H3117H3391H310H935H1166H80214But if you marry her and she does not please you, you must let her go free. You may not sell her or treat her as a slave, for you have humiliated her.H2654H7971H5315H4376H4376H3701H6014H834H603115"Suppose a man has two wives, but he loves one and not the other, and both have given him sons. And suppose the firstborn son is the son of the wife he does not love.H376H8147H802H259H157H259H8130H3205H1121H157H8130H1060H1121H814616When the man divides his inheritance, he may not give the larger inheritance to his younger son, the son of the wife he loves, as if he were the firstborn son.H3117H1121H5157H3201H1121H157H1069H6440H1121H8130H106017He must recognize the rights of his oldest son, the son of the wife he does not love, by giving him a double portion. He is the first son of his father's virility, and the rights of the firstborn belong to him.H5234H1121H8130H1060H5414H8147H6310H4672H7225H202H4941H106218"Suppose a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or mother, even though they discipline him.H376H5637H4784H1121H8085H6963H1H6963H517H3256H808519In such a case, the father and mother must take the son to the elders as they hold court at the town gate.H1H517H8610H3318H2205H5892H8179H472520The parents must say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious and refuses to obey. He is a glutton and a drunkard.'H559H2205H5892H1121H5637H4784H8085H6963H2151H543321Then all the men of his town must stone him to death. In this way, you will purge this evil from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.H582H5892H7275H68H4191H1197H7451H1197H7130H3478H8085H337222"If someone has committed a crime worthy of death and is executed and hung on a tree,H376H2399H4941H4194H4191H8518H608623the body must not remain hanging from the tree overnight. You must bury the body that same day, for anyone who is hung is cursed in the sight of God. In this way, you will prevent the defilement of the land the LORD your God is giving you as your special possession.H5038H3885H6086H6912H6912H3117H8518H7045H430H127H2930H3068H430H5414H5159
Deuteronomy 22
22"If you see your neighbor's ox or sheep or goat wandering away, don't ignore your responsibility. Take it back to its owner.H7200H251H7794H7716H5080H5956H7725H7725H2512If its owner does not live nearby or you don't know who the owner is, take it to your place and keep it until the owner comes looking for it. Then you must return it.H251H7138H3045H622H8432H1004H251H1875H77253Do the same if you find your neighbor's donkey, clothing, or anything else your neighbor loses. Don't ignore your responsibility.H3651H6213H2543H6213H8071H9H251H6H4672H6213H3201H59564"If you see that your neighbor's donkey or ox has collapsed on the road, do not look the other way. Go and help your neighbor get it back on its feet!H7200H251H2543H7794H5307H1870H5956H6965H69655"A woman must not put on men's clothing, and a man must not wear women's clothing. Anyone who does this is detestable in the sight of the LORD your God.H802H3627H1397H1397H3847H802H8071H6213H428H8441H3068H4306"If you happen to find a bird's nest in a tree or on the ground, and there are young ones or eggs in it with the mother sitting in the nest, do not take the mother with the young.H6833H7064H7122H6440H1870H6086H776H667H1000H517H7257H667H1000H3947H517H11217You may take the young, but let the mother go, so that you may prosper and enjoy a long life.H7971H517H7971H3947H1121H3190H748H31178"When you build a new house, you must build a railing around the edge of its flat roof. That way you will not be considered guilty of murder if someone falls from the roof.H1129H2319H1004H6213H4624H1406H7760H1818H1004H5307H53079"You must not plant any other crop between the rows of your vineyard. If you do, you are forbidden to use either the grapes from the vineyard or the other crop.H2232H3754H3610H4395H2233H2232H8393H3754H694210"You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.H2790H7794H2543H316211"You must not wear clothing made of wool and linen woven together.H3847H8162H6785H6593H316212"You must put four tassels on the hem of the cloak with which you cover yourself—on the front, back, and sides.H6213H1434H702H3671H3682H368013"Suppose a man marries a woman, but after sleeping with her, he turns against herH376H3947H802H935H813014and publicly accuses her of shameful conduct, saying, 'When I married this woman, I discovered she was not a virgin.'H7760H5949H1697H3318H7451H8034H559H3947H802H7126H4672H133115Then the woman's father and mother must bring the proof of her virginity to the elders as they hold court at the town gate.H1H5291H517H3947H3318H5291H1331H2205H5892H817916Her father must say to them, 'I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife, and now he has turned against her.H5291H1H559H2205H5414H1323H376H802H813017He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, "I discovered that your daughter was not a virgin." But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity.' Then they must spread her bed sheet before the elders.H7760H5949H1697H559H4672H1323H1331H1323H1331H6566H8071H6440H2205H589218The elders must then take the man and punish him.H2205H5892H3947H376H325619They must also fine him 100 pieces of silver, which he must pay to the woman's father because he publicly accused a virgin of Israel of shameful conduct. The woman will then remain the man's wife, and he may never divorce her.H6064H3967H3701H5414H1H5291H3318H7451H8034H1330H3478H802H3201H7971H311720"But suppose the man's accusations are true, and he can show that she was not a virgin.H1697H571H1331H4672H529121The woman must be taken to the door of her father's home, and there the men of the town must stone her to death, for she has committed a disgraceful crime in Israel by being promiscuous while living in her parents' home. In this way, you will purge this evil from among you.H3318H5291H6607H1H1004H582H5892H5619H68H4191H6213H5039H3478H2181H1H1004H1197H7451H1197H713022"If a man is discovered committing adultery, both he and the woman must die. In this way, you will purge Israel of such evil.H376H4672H7901H802H1166H1167H8147H4191H376H7901H802H802H1197H7451H347823"Suppose a man meets a young woman, a virgin who is engaged to be married, and he has sexual intercourse with her. If this happens within a town,H5291H1330H781H376H376H4672H5892H790124you must take both of them to the gates of that town and stone them to death. The woman is guilty because she did not scream for help. The man must die because he violated another man's wife. In this way, you will purge this evil from among you.H3318H8147H8179H5892H5619H68H4191H5291H834H1697H6817H5892H376H834H1697H6031H7453H802H1197H7451H713025"But if the man meets the engaged woman out in the country, and he rapes her, then only the man must die.H376H4672H781H5291H7704H376H2388H7901H376H7901H419126Do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no crime worthy of death. She is as innocent as a murder victim.H5291H6213H1697H5291H2399H4194H376H6965H7453H7523H5315H169727Since the man raped her out in the country, it must be assumed that she screamed, but there was no one to rescue her.H4672H7704H781H5291H6817H346728"Suppose a man has intercourse with a young woman who is a virgin but is not engaged to be married. If they are discovered,H376H4672H5291H1330H781H8610H7901H467229he must pay her father fifty pieces of silver. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.H376H7901H5414H5291H1H2572H3701H802H6031H3201H7971H311730"A man must not marry his father's former wife, for this would violate his father.H376H3947H1H802H1540H1H3671
Deuteronomy 23
23"If a man's testicles are crushed or his penis is cut off, he may not be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.H6481H1795H8212H3772H935H6951H30682"If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.H4464H935H6951H3068H6224H1755H935H6951H30683"No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.H5984H4125H935H6951H3068H6224H1755H935H6951H3068H5704H57694These nations did not welcome you with food and water when you came out of Egypt. Instead, they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in distant Aram-naharaim to curse you.H1697H6923H3899H4325H1870H3318H4714H7936H1109H1121H1160H6604H763H70435But the LORD your God refused to listen to Balaam. He turned the intended curse into a blessing because the LORD your God loves you.H3068H430H14H8085H1109H3068H430H2015H7045H1293H3068H430H1576As long as you live, you must never promote the welfare and prosperity of the Ammonites or Moabites.H1875H7965H2896H3117H57697"Do not detest the Edomites or the Egyptians, because the Edomites are your relatives and you lived as foreigners among the Egyptians.H8581H130H251H8581H4713H1616H7768The third generation of Edomites and Egyptians may enter the assembly of the LORD.H1121H3205H935H6951H3068H7992H17559"When you go to war against your enemies, be sure to stay away from anything that is impure.H4264H3318H341H8104H7451H169710"Any man who becomes ceremonially defiled because of a nocturnal emission must leave the camp and stay away all day.H376H2889H7137H3915H3318H2351H4264H935H8432H426411Toward evening he must bathe himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.H6153H6437H7364H4325H8121H935H935H8432H426412"You must have a designated area outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.H3027H2351H4264H3318H235113Each of you must have a spade as part of your equipment. Whenever you relieve yourself, dig a hole with the spade and cover the excrement.H3489H240H3427H2351H2658H7725H3680H662714The camp must be holy, for the LORD your God moves around in your camp to protect you and to defeat your enemies. He must not see any shameful thing among you, or he will turn away from you.H3068H430H1980H7130H4264H5337H5414H341H6440H4264H6918H7200H6172H1697H7725H31015"If slaves should escape from their masters and take refuge with you, you must not hand them over to their masters.H5462H113H5650H5337H11316Let them live among you in any town they choose, and do not oppress them.H3427H7130H4725H977H259H8179H2896H323817"No Israelite, whether man or woman, may become a temple prostitute.H6948H1323H3478H6945H1121H347818When you are bringing an offering to fulfill a vow, you must not bring to the house of the LORD your God any offering from the earnings of a prostitute, whether a man or a woman, for both are detestable to the LORD your God.H935H868H2181H4242H3611H1004H3068H430H5088H8147H8441H3068H43019"Do not charge interest on the loans you make to a fellow Israelite, whether you loan money, or food, or anything else.H5391H251H5392H3701H5392H400H5392H1697H539120You may charge interest to foreigners, but you may not charge interest to Israelites, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are about to enter and occupy.H5237H5391H251H5391H3068H430H1288H4916H3027H776H935H342321"When you make a vow to the LORD your God, be prompt in fulfilling whatever you promised him. For the LORD your God demands that you promptly fulfill all your vows, or you will be guilty of sin.H5087H5088H3068H430H309H7999H3068H430H1875H1875H239922However, it is not a sin to refrain from making a vow.H2308H5087H239923But once you have voluntarily made a vow, be careful to fulfill your promise to the LORD your God.H4161H8193H8104H6213H5071H5087H3068H430H1696H631024"When you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not carry any away in a basket.H935H7453H3754H398H6025H7648H5315H5414H362725And when you enter your neighbor's field of grain, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not harvest it with a sickle.H935H7054H7453H6998H4425H3027H5130H2770H7453H7054
Psalms 60
60[For the choir director: A psalm of David useful for teaching, regarding the time David fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and killed 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. To be sung to the tune “Lily of the Testimony.”] You have rejected us, O God, and broken our defenses. You have been angry with us; now restore us to your favor.H5329H7802H4387H1732H3925H5327H763H5104H760H3097H7725H5221H123H1516H4417H8147H6240H505H430H2186H6555H599H77252You have shaken our land and split it open. Seal the cracks, for the land trembles.H776H7493H6480H7495H7667H41313You have been very hard on us, making us drink wine that sent us reeling.H7200H5971H7186H8248H3196H86534But you have raised a banner for those who fear you—a rallying point in the face of attack. InterludeH5414H5251H3373H5127H6440H7189H55425Now rescue your beloved people. Answer and save us by your power.H3039H2502H3467H3225H60306God has promised this by his holiness. “I will divide up Shechem with joy. I will measure out the valley of Succoth.H430H1696H6944H5937H2505H7927H4058H6010H55237Gilead is mine, and Manasseh, too. Ephraim, my helmet, will produce my warriors, and Judah, my scepter, will produce my kings.H1568H4519H669H4581H7218H3063H27108But Moab, my washbasin, will become my servant, and I will wipe my feet on Edom and shout in triumph over Philistia.”H4124H5518H7366H123H7993H5275H6429H73219Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will bring me victory over Edom?H2986H4692H5892H5148H12310Have you rejected us, O God? Will you no longer march with our armies?H430H2186H430H3318H663511Oh, please help us against our enemies, for all human help is useless.H3051H5833H6862H7723H8668H12012With God’s help we will do mighty things, for he will trample down our foes.H430H6213H2428H947H6862
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