Month: January 2020

“If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse someone of a crime, the two people involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the Lord before the priests and the judges who are in office at the time. The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be…

“The… whole tribe of Levi … shall live on the food offerings presented to the Lord, for that is their inheritance. They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them. This is the share due the priests from the people who sacrifice a bull or a…

“you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold. And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in…

This chapter reminds the people of the three main festivals they are to celebrate, and some guidelines on those festivals. “Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread [ie. Passover], the Festival of Weeks and the Festival…

“At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the Lord’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed. If anyone…

This chapter has several commandment recaps including tithing and and clean/unclean food, though we’re going to talk about one that is often misunderstood or overlooked. “You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy…

“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen…

“Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.” (v32) There are a few places in scripture we are warned to follow God’s commands/words without adding or removing anything: “You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from…

“And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, he will give the rain for your land in its season… Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and…

“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving…