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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:40 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Friday February 27 > Deuteronomy 22-24 (The Message) > > Deuteronomy 22 > 1-3 If you see your kinsman's ox or sheep wandering off loose, don't look > the other way as if you > didn't see it. Return it promptly. If your fellow Israelite > is not close by or you don't know whose it is, take the animal home with > you and take care of it > until your fellow asks about it. Then return it to him. > Do the same if it's his donkey or a piece of clothing or anything else > your fellow Israelite loses. > Don't look the other way as if you didn't see it. > > 4 If you see your fellow's donkey or ox injured along the road, don't look > the other way. Help him > get it up and on its way. > > 5 A woman must not wear a man's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing. > This kind of thing is an > abomination to God, your God. > > 6-7 When you come across a bird's nest alongside the road, whether in a > tree or on the ground, and > the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, don't > take the mother with the young. You may take the babies, but let the > mother go so that you will live > a good and long life. > > 8 When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof to make it > safe so that someone > doesn't fall off and die and your family become responsible > for the death. > > 9 Don't plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard. If you do, you will > forfeit what you've sown, the > total production of the vineyard. > > 10 Don't plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together. > > 11 Don't wear clothes of mixed fabrics, wool and linen together. > > 12 Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you use to cover > yourself. > > 13-19 If a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then turns on her, > calling her a slut, giving > her a bad name, saying, "I married this woman, but when > I slept with her I discovered she wasn't a virgin," then the father and > mother of the girl are to > take her with the proof of her virginity to the town > leaders at the gate. The father is to tell the leaders, "I gave my > daughter to this man as wife and > he turned on her, rejecting her. And now he has slanderously > accused her, claiming that she wasn't a virgin. But look at this, here is > the proof of my daughter's > virginity." And then he is to spread out her bloodstained > wedding garment before the leaders for their examination. The town leaders > then are to take the > husband, whip him, fine him a hundred pieces of silver, > and give it to the father of the girl. The man gave a virgin girl of > Israel a bad name. He has to > keep her as his wife and can never divorce her. > > 20-21 But if it turns out that the accusation is true and there is no > evidence of the girl's > virginity, the men of the town are to take her to the door > of her father's house and stone her to death. She acted disgracefully in > Israel. She lived like a > whore while still in her parents' home. Purge the evil > from among you. > > 22 If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife, both must die. > Purge that evil from Israel. > > 23-24 If a man comes upon a virgin in town, a girl who is engaged to > another man, and sleeps with > her, take both of them to the town gate and stone them > until they die-the girl because she didn't yell out for help in the town > and the man because he > raped her, violating the fiancee of his neighbor. You must > purge the evil from among you. > > 25-27 But if it was out in the country that the man found the engaged girl > and grabbed and raped > her, only the man is to die, the man who raped her. Don't > do anything to the girl; she did nothing wrong. This is similar to the > case of a man who comes > across his neighbor out in the country and murders him; > when the engaged girl yelled out for help, there was no one around to hear > or help her. > > 28-29 When a man comes upon a virgin who has never been engaged and grabs > and rapes her and they > are found out, the man who raped her has to give her father > fifty pieces of silver. He has to marry her because he took advantage of > her. And he can never > divorce her. > > 30 A man may not marry his father's ex-wife-that would violate his > father's rights. > > Deuteronomy 23 > 1 No eunuch is to enter the congregation of God. 2 No bastard is to enter > the congregation of God, > even to the tenth generation, nor any of his children. > > 3-6 No Ammonite or Moabite is to enter the congregation of God, even to > the tenth generation, nor > any of his children, ever. Those nations didn't treat > you with hospitality on your travels out of Egypt, and on top of that they > also hired Balaam son of > Beor from Pethor in Mesopotamia to curse you. God, > your God, refused to listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a > blessing-how God, your God, loves > you! Don't even try to get along with them or do anything > for them, ever. > > 7 But don't spurn an Edomite; he's your kin. > > And don't spurn an Egyptian; you were a foreigner in his land. > > 8 Children born to Edomites and Egyptians may enter the congregation of > God in the third > generation. > > 9-11 When you are camped out, at war with your enemies, be careful to keep > yourself from anything > ritually defiling. If one of your men has become ritually > unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must go outside the camp and > stay there until evening > when he can wash himself, returning to the camp at sunset. > > 12-14 Mark out an area outside the camp where you can go to relieve > yourselves. Along with your > weapons have a stick with you. After you relieve yourself, > dig a hole with the stick and cover your excrement. God, your God, strolls > through your camp; he's > present to deliver you and give you victory over your > enemies. Keep your camp holy; don't permit anything indecent or offensive > in God's eyes. > > 15-16 Don't return a runaway slave to his master; he's come to you for > refuge. Let him live wherever > he wishes within the protective gates of your city. > Don't take advantage of him. > > 17-18 No daughter of Israel is to become a sacred prostitute; and no son > of Israel is to become a > sacred prostitute. And don't bring the fee of a sacred > whore or the earnings of a priest-pimp to the house of God, your God, to > pay for any vow-they are > both an abomination to God, your God. > > 19-20 Don't charge interest to your kinsmen on any loan: not for money or > food or clothing or > anything else that could earn interest. You may charge foreigners > interest, but you may not charge your brothers interest; that way God, > your God, will bless all the > work that you take up and the land that you are entering > to possess. > > 21-23 When you make a vow to God, your God, don't put off keeping it; God, > your God, expects you to > keep it and if you don't you're guilty. But if you > don't make a vow in the first place, there's no sin. If you say you're > going to do something, do it. > Keep the vow you willingly vowed to God, your God. > You promised it, so do it. > > 24-25 When you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat all the grapes > you want until you're > full, but you may not put any in your bucket or bag. And > when you walk through the ripe grain of your neighbor, you may pick the > heads of grain, but you may > not swing your sickle there. > > Deuteronomy 24 > 1-4 If a man marries a woman and then it happens that he no longer likes > her because he has found > something wrong with her, he may give her divorce papers, > put them in her hand, and send her off. After she leaves, if she becomes > another man's wife and he > also comes to hate her and this second husband also > gives her divorce papers, puts them in her hand, and sends her off, or if > he should die, then the > first husband who divorced her can't marry her again. > She has made herself ritually unclean, and her remarriage would be an > abomination in the Presence of > God and defile the land with sin, this land that God, > your God, is giving you as an inheritance. > > 5 When a man takes a new wife, he is not to go out with the army or be > given any business or work > duties. He gets one year off simply to be at home making > his wife happy. > > 6 Don't seize a handmill or an upper millstone as collateral for a loan. > You'd be seizing someone's > very life. > > 7 If a man is caught kidnapping one of his kinsmen, someone of the People > of Israel, to enslave or > sell him, the kidnapper must die. Purge that evil from > among you. > > 8-9 Warning! If a serious skin disease breaks out, follow exactly the > rules set down by the > Levitical priests. Follow them precisely as I commanded them. > Don't forget what God, your God, did to Miriam on your way out of Egypt. > > 10-13 When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, don't enter his > house to claim his pledge. > Wait outside. Let the man to whom you made the pledge > bring the pledge to you outside. And if he is destitute, don't use his > cloak as a bedroll; return it > to him at nightfall so that he can sleep in his cloak > and bless you. In the sight of God, your God, that will be viewed as a > righteous act. > > 14-15 Don't abuse a laborer who is destitute and needy, whether he is a > fellow Israelite living in > your land and in your city. Pay him at the end of each > workday; he's living from hand to mouth and needs it now. If you hold back > his pay, he'll protest to > God and you'll have sin on your books. > > 16 Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for > their parents. Each > person shall be put to death for his own sin. > > 17-18 Make sure foreigners and orphans get their just rights. Don't take > the cloak of a widow as > security for a loan. Don't ever forget that you were once > slaves in Egypt and God, your God, got you out of there. I command you: Do > what I'm telling you. > > 19-22 When you harvest your grain and forget a sheaf back in the field, > don't go back and get it; > leave it for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow > so that God, your God, will bless you in all your work. When you shake the > olives off your trees, > don't go back over the branches and strip them bare-what's > left is for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow. And when you cut the > grapes in your vineyard, > don't take every last grape-leave a few for the foreigner, > the orphan, and the widow. Don't ever forget that you were a slave in > Egypt. I command you: Do what > I'm telling you. > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
