18 March 2020, Chronological Bible Reading, Deuteronomy 24 to 27.
My wife, Lori, and I are reading through the Bible in chronological order, which is the order in which the events happened. Her blog on this can be found here. This is not intended to be a lesson or a sermon. It is my thoughts and notes as I read through the text and as I sometimes look things up. Today we read Deuteronomy 24 to 27.
Deuteronomy 24
The divorced woman who married someone other than her ex husband is not allowed to return to him should she become divorced again or widowed (vv 1-4).
A newly married man is free from service for a year to be with his wife (v 5).
The Israelite could not take that which was required for making his daily bread as pledge for an oath. Kidnapping and treating the kidnapped person with violence, or slave trading, was punishable by death (vv 6-7).
We are reminded to follow the laws for leprosy previously given (vv 8-9).
There were regulations concerning a pledge (vv 10-15).
Each person was responsible for their own sin (v 16).
Israelites were to treat the alien, the poor, the widow, and the orphan justly (vv 17-22).
Deuteronomy 25
If a guilty man deserves to be beaten, he may only receive 40 strikes (vv 1-3). The ox deserves to eat while he works (v 4).
There were regulations for how a dead man’s widow who lived with her brother in law was to be treated so there would be an heir for the dead man (vv 5-10).
When two men were struggling and a man’s wife grabs the privates of her husband’s opponent, she was to lose her hand (vv 11-12).
The people were required to have only full and just weights (vv 13-16).
Once God gives the Israelites rest from their enemies they were to blot out the Amalekites (vv 17-19).
Deuteronomy 26
We see regulations for the first fruits and tithes the people are to give in the land (vv 1–15). We see a reminder to follow the commands of God (vv 16-19).
Deuteronomy 27
This chapter is a charge from Moses and the elders of Israel to the people. The Israelites were to build an altar of uncut stones and bring offerings were to be brought to the Lord, and rejoice in God’s presence and thank God, as what happened at Mt. Sinai (Ex. 24:1–8).
Half the tribes were to be on Mt Gerizim to bless the people, and the other half were to be on Mt Ebal for the cursing. Cursed is the man who:
1) makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.
2) dishonors his father or mother.
3) moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.
4) misleads a blind person on the road.
5) distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.
6) lies with his father’s wife.
7) lies with any animal.
8) lies with his sister.
9) lies with his mother-in-law.
10) strikes his neighbor in secret.
11) accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person.
12) does not confirm the words of this law by doing them
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