1-2 The Levitical priests—that’s the entire tribe of Levi—don’t get any land-inheritance with the rest of Israel. They get the Fire-Gift-Offerings ofGod—they will live on that inheritance. But they don’t get land-inheritance like the rest of their kinsmen.Godis their inheritance. 3-5 This is what the priests get from the people from any offering of an […]
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Deuteronomy 19
1-3 WhenGod, your God, throws the nations out of the country thatGod, your God, is giving you and you settle down in their cities and houses, you are to set aside three easily accessible cities in the land thatGod, your God, is giving you as your very own. Divide your land into thirds, this land […]
Deuteronomy 20
1-4 When you go to war against your enemy and see horses and chariots and soldiers far outnumbering you, do not recoil in fear of them;God, your God, who brought you up out of Egypt is with you. When the battle is about to begin, let the priest come forward and speak to the troops. […]
Deuteronomy 21
1-8 If a dead body is found on the ground, this ground thatGod, your God, has given you, lying out in the open, and no one knows who killed him, your leaders and judges are to go out and measure the distance from the body to the nearest cities. The leaders and judges of the […]
Deuteronomy 22
1-3 If you see your kinsman’s ox or sheep wandering off loose, don’t look the other way as if you didn’t see it. Return it promptly. If your fellow Israelite is not close by or you don’t know whose it is, take the animal home with you and take care of it until your fellow […]
Deuteronomy 23
1 No eunuch is to enter the congregation ofGod. 2 No bastard is to enter the congregation ofGod, even to the tenth generation, nor any of his children. 3-6 No Ammonite or Moabite is to enter the congregation ofGod, even to the tenth generation, nor any of his children, ever. Those nations didn’t treat you […]
Deuteronomy 24
1-4 If a man marries a woman and then it happens that he no longer likes her because he has found something wrong with her, he may give her divorce papers, put them in her hand, and send her off. After she leaves, if she becomes another man’s wife and he also comes to hate […]
Deuteronomy 25
1-3 When men have a legal dispute, let them go to court; the judges will decide between them, declaring one innocent and the other guilty. If the guilty one deserves punishment, the judge will have him prostrate himself before him and lashed as many times as his crime deserves, but not more than forty. If […]
Deuteronomy 26
1-5 Once you enter the land thatGod, your God, is giving you as an inheritance and take it over and settle down, you are to take some of all the firstfruits of what you grow in the land thatGod, your God, is giving you, put them in a basket and go to the placeGod, your […]
Deuteronomy 27
1-3 Moses commanded the leaders of Israel and charged the people: Keep every commandment that I command you today. On the day you cross the Jordan into the land thatGod, your God, is giving you, erect large stones and coat them with plaster. As soon as you cross over the river, write on the stones […]