[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR SUNDAY FEBRUARY 27

[Donnie Parrett]

DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR SUNDAY FEBRUARY 27

DAILY BIBLE READING

Deuteronomy 22-24  New King James Version
Various Laws of Morality
22 "You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray, and
[a]hide yourself from them; you shall certainly bring them back to your
brother. 2 And if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him,
then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall remain with you
until your brother seeks it; then you shall restore it to him. 3 You shall
do the same with his donkey, and so shall you do with his garment; with any
lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost and you have found, you
shall do likewise; you [b]must not hide yourself.

4 "You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fall down along the
road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him lift them up
again.

5 "A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man
put on a woman's garment, for all who do so are [c]an abomination to the
Lord your God.

6 "If a bird's nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or
on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young
or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; 7 you shall
surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, that it may be
well with you and that you may prolong your days.

8 "When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof,
that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls
from it.

9 "You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the
yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be
defiled.

10 "You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

11 "You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen
mixed together.

12 "You shall make tassels on the four corners of the clothing with which
you cover yourself.

Laws of Sexual Morality
13 "If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and detests her, 14 and
charges her with shameful conduct, and brings a bad name on her, and says,
'I took this woman, and when I came to her I found she was not a virgin,' 15
then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the
evidence of the young woman's virginity to the elders of the city at the
gate. 16 And the young woman's father shall say to the elders, 'I gave my
daughter to this man as wife, and he detests her. 17 Now he has charged her
with shameful conduct, saying, "I found your daughter was not a virgin," and
yet these are the evidences of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall
spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 Then the elders of that
city shall take that man and punish him; 19 and they shall fine him one
hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman,
because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be
his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days.

20 "But if the thing is true, and evidences of virginity are not found for
the young woman, 21 then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of
her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with
stones, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the
harlot in her father's house. So you shall [d]put away the evil from among
you.

22 "If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of
them shall die-the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall
put away the evil from Israel.

23 "If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man
finds her in the city and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring them both
out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones,
the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because
he humbled his neighbor's wife; so you shall put away the evil from among
you.

25 "But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the
man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall
die. 26 But you shall do nothing to the young woman; there is in the young
woman no sin deserving of death, for just as when a man rises against his
neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter. 27 For he found her in the
countryside, and the betrothed young woman cried out, but there was no one
to save her.

28 "If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and
he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out, 29 then the man who
lay with her shall give to the young woman's father fifty shekels of silver,
and she shall be his wife because he has humbled her; he shall not be
permitted to divorce her all his days.

30 "A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed.

Those Excluded from the Congregation
23 "He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall not enter the
assembly of the Lord.

2 "One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even
to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of
the Lord.

3 "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to
the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the
Lord forever, 4 because they did not meet you with bread and water on the
road when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam
the son of Beor from Pethor of [e]Mesopotamia, to curse you. 5 Nevertheless
the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned
the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you. 6
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

7 "You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not
abhor an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land. 8 The children of
the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

Cleanliness of the Campsite
9 "When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from
every wicked thing. 10 If there is any man among you who becomes unclean by
some occurrence in the night, then he shall go outside the camp; he shall
not come inside the camp. 11 But it shall be, when evening comes, that he
shall wash with water; and when the sun sets, he may come into the camp.

12 "Also you shall have a place outside the camp, where you may go out; 13
and you shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down
outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse. 14 For the
Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your
enemies over to you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that He may see no
unclean thing among you, and turn away from you.

Miscellaneous Laws
15 "You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his
master to you. 16 He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he
chooses within one of your gates, where it [f]seems best to him; you shall
not oppress him.

17 "There shall be no ritual [g]harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a
perverted[h] one of the sons of Israel. 18 You shall not bring the wages of
a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the Lord your God for any
vowed offering, for both of these are [i]an abomination to the Lord your
God.

19 "You shall not charge interest to your brother-interest on money or food
or anything that is lent out at interest. 20 To a foreigner you may charge
interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, that the Lord
your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which
you are entering to possess.

21 "When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it;
for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to
you. 22 But if you abstain from vowing, it shall not be sin to you. 23 That
which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you
voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised with your
mouth.

24 "When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of
grapes at your pleasure, but you shall not put any in your container. 25
When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the heads
with your hand, but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor's standing
grain.

Law Concerning Divorce
24 "When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds
no favor in his eyes because he has found some [j]uncleanness in her, and he
writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out
of his house, 2 when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes
another man's wife, 3 if the latter husband detests her and writes her a
certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house,
or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife, 4 then her former
husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has
been defiled; for that is [k]an abomination before the Lord, and you shall
not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an
inheritance.

Miscellaneous Laws
5 "When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged
with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and bring happiness to
his wife whom he has taken.

6 "No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he
takes [l]one's living in pledge.

7 "If a man is found [m]kidnapping any of his brethren of the children of
Israel, and mistreats him or sells him, then that kidnapper shall die; and
you shall put away the evil from among you.

8 "Take heed in an outbreak of leprosy, that you carefully observe and do
according to all that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you; just as I
commanded them, so you shall be careful to do. 9 Remember what the Lord your
God did to Miriam on the way when you came out of Egypt!

10 "When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to
get his pledge. 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend
shall bring the pledge out to you. 12 And if the man is poor, you shall not
[n]keep his pledge overnight. 13 You shall in any case return the pledge to
him again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and
bless you; and it shall be righteousness to you before the Lord your God.

14 "You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one
of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates.
15 Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it,
for he is poor and has set his heart on it; lest he cry out against you to
the Lord, and it be sin to you.

16 "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children
be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his
own sin.

17 "You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, nor
take a widow's garment as a pledge. 18 But you shall remember that you were
a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I
command you to do this thing.

19 "When you reap your harvest in your field, and forget a sheaf in the
field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the stranger, the
fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the
work of your hands. 20 When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over
the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the
widow. 21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean
it afterward; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
22 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt;
therefore I command you to do this thing.

Footnotes
Deuteronomy 22:1 ignore them
Deuteronomy 22:3 may not avoid responsibility
Deuteronomy 22:5 detestable
Deuteronomy 22:21 purge the evil person
Deuteronomy 23:4 Heb. Aram Naharaim
Deuteronomy 23:16 pleases him best
Deuteronomy 23:17 Heb. qedeshah, fem. of qadesh (next note)
Deuteronomy 23:17 Heb. qadesh, one practicing sodomy and prostitution in
religious rituals
Deuteronomy 23:18 detestable
Deuteronomy 24:1 indecency, lit. nakedness of a thing
Deuteronomy 24:4 a detestable thing
Deuteronomy 24:6 life
Deuteronomy 24:7 Lit. stealing
Deuteronomy 24:12 Lit. sleep with his pledge