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Deuteronomy 22:23-27 meaningJuly 13, 2022
Moses described what to do about sexual infidelity committed by a virgin who was engaged to be married.
Deuteronomy 22:22 meaningJuly 13, 2022
Moses condemns adultery. If a man has sexual intercourse with a married woman, both of them shall die.
Deuteronomy 22:13-21 meaningJuly 13, 2022
Moses described the steps to be taken when a husband falsely accused his wife of not having been a virgin at the time of marriage. He also described what to do if these accusations were true.
Deuteronomy 22:9-12 meaningJuly 13, 2022
Moses prohibited the mixture of seed, plow animals, and clothes.
Deuteronomy 22:8 meaningJuly 13, 2022
Moses told the Israelites to make a parapet on their roof whenever they build a new house in order to protect the life of his neighbor.
Deuteronomy 22:6-7 meaningJuly 13, 2022
Moses trains the people to recognize the sanctity of life by encouraging them to care for a lower form of God’s creation—a mother bird along with its young. Though possibly designed to preserve a source of food supply, it serves as a principle to care for and preserve life, both human and animal.
Deuteronomy 22:5 meaningJuly 13, 2022
Moses prohibited wearing clothes of the opposite sex.
Deuteronomy 22:1-4 meaningJuly 13, 2022
Moses exhorted his fellow Israelites to help preserve his brother’s life by taking care of his brother’s property. Lost property was to be returned to his brother. This included his brother’s livestock, which was many Israelites’ livelihood.
Deuteronomy 21:22-23 meaningJuly 7, 2022
Moses instructs the Israelites on how to handle the dead body of a person who has committed a capital offense and has been put to death
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 meaningJuly 7, 2022
Moses instructs the Israelites on how to deal with a stubborn and rebellious son who continuously disobeys his parents.
Deuteronomy 21:15-17 meaningJuly 7, 2022
Moses instructs the Israelite husband who has two wives to give a double portion of his inheritance to the firstborn son, even if his mother is less favored than the other
Deuteronomy 21:10-14 meaningJuly 7, 2022
In this section, Moses specified the rules concerning the marriage of an Israelite man to a woman captured in battle
Deuteronomy 21:1-9 meaningJuly 7, 2022
Moses deals with the issue of murder when the killer is unknown
Deuteronomy 24:19-22 meaningJuly 1, 2022
Moses asks owners of fields and orchards to leave a portion of their harvest for the alien, the orphan, and the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:17-18 meaningJuly 1, 2022
Moses warns Israel against perverting the justice due to the alien and the orphan, and forbids taking a widow’s garment in pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:16 meaningJuly 1, 2022
Moses forbade the Israelites from punishing one family member for the actions of another member of the family. Each person had agency to choose, and this agency was to be respected.
Deuteronomy 24:14-15 meaningJuly 1, 2022
Moses warns the Israelites against oppressing a hired servant who is poor and needy by withholding his wages. Such an act can cause the poor man to cry out to God against his employer.
Deuteronomy 24:10-13 meaningJuly 1, 2022
Moses elevates a law that promotes loving and caring for neighbors. He forbids a lender to enter his borrower's house to take his pledge. He must remain outside as the borrower chooses the item he wants to pledge. If the borrower is poor and offers his cloak as collateral, the lender needs to return it to him every evening until the loan is repaid.
Deuteronomy 24:8-9 meaningJuly 1, 2022
The first topic related to the section generally flavored by the ninth commandment is concerned with leprosy. Moses encourages the Israelites to listen to the instructions of the Levitical priests regarding skin diseases (including leprosy). He illustrates the issue by referring to the case of Miriam, Moses's sister.
Deuteronomy 24:7 meaningJuly 1, 2022
Moses warns the Israelites against kidnapping their countrymen. Anyone who kidnaps his brother shall die in order to purge the evil from among the Israelite community.
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