May
4
Deuteronomy
23, 24
Deu
23:1 He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut
off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
Deu
23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to
the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of
Yahweh.
Deu
23:3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of
Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them
enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever:
Deu
23:4 because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the
way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against
you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
Deu
23:5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but
Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because
Yahweh your God loved you.
Deu
23:6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your
days forever.
Deu
23:7 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you
shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his
land.
Deu
23:8 The children of the third generation who are born to them shall
enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
Deu
23:9 When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall
keep yourselves from every evil thing.
Deu
23:10 If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of
that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the
camp. He shall not come within the camp:
Deu
23:11 but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself
in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
Deu
23:12 You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you
shall go forth abroad:
Deu
23:13 and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall
be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn
back and cover that which comes from you:
Deu
23:14 for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to
deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore your
camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and
turn away from you.
Deu
23:15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped
from his master to you:
Deu
23:16 he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place
which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him
best: you shall not oppress him.
Deu
23:17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel,
neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Deu
23:18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of
a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both
these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deu
23:19 You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of
money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on
interest:
Deu
23:20 to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother
you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in
all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess
it.
Deu
23:21 When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be
slack to pay it: for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you;
and it would be sin in you.
Deu
23:22 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
Deu
23:23 That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do;
according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill offering,
which you have promised with your mouth.
Deu
23:24 When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat
of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any
in your vessel.
Deu
23:25 When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you
may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to
your neighbor's standing grain.
Deu
24:1 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if
she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly
thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it
in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Deu
24:2 When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be
another man's wife.
Deu
24:3 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or
if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
Deu
24:4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again
to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination
before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh
your God gives you for an inheritance.
Deu
24:5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army,
neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home
one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Deu
24:6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge;
for he takes a man's
life to pledge.
Deu
24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children
of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that
thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of
you.
Deu
24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe
diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites
shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
Deu
24:9 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you
came forth out of Egypt.
Deu
24:10 When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall
not go into his house to get his pledge.
Deu
24:11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall
bring forth the pledge outside to you.
Deu
24:12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
Deu
24:13 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes
down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall
be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
Deu
24:14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy,
whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your
land within your gates:
Deu
24:15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun
go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry
against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
Deu
24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,
neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man
shall be put to death for his own sin.
Deu
24:17 You shall not wrest the justice due
to the foreigner, or
to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
Deu
24:18 but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt,
and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do
this thing.
Deu
24:19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a
sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for
the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh
your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deu
24:20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the
boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and
for the widow.
Deu
24:21 When you gather the grapes of
your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be
for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deu
24:22 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of
Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.