Hi, and welcome to
His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and thank you
for joining with me to read the
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word of God.
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Let's pray
together before we start.
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Dear God, thank You so much for
these wonderful words that guide
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us on firm paths.
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And as we read how You guided
the Israelites long ago, may we
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take the lessons that You gave
to them and apply them to our
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lives today to bear
fruit to Your glory.
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We love You so much.
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Thank You for loving us.
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Amen.
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We were reading in
the book of Deuteronomy.
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Moses has called the children
of Israel together and reviewed
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with them God's leading, and
is now giving them the commands
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of the Lord and saying to
them you have two choices.
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You can choose to obey and
live a wonderful blessed life,
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or you can choose to turn from
the Lord your God, and you will
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pay the price for that decision.
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We're picking up in chapter 20.
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This is the King James Version.
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When thou goest out to
battle against thine enemies,
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and seest horses, and chariots,
and a people more than thou,
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be not afraid of them: for
the Lord thy God is with thee,
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which brought thee up
out of the land of Egypt.
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And it shall be, when ye
are come nigh unto the battle,
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that the priest shall approach
and speak unto the people,
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and shall say unto them, Hear,
O Israel, ye approach this day
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unto battle against your
enemies: let not your hearts
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faint, fear not, and do not
tremble, neither be ye terrified
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because of them; for the Lord
your God is he that goeth with
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you, to fight for you against
your enemies, to save you.
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And the officers shall
speak unto the people, saying,
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What man is there that hath
built a new house, and hath not
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dedicated it? let him go and
return to his house, lest he die
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in the battle, and
another man dedicate it.
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And what man is he that hath
planted a vineyard, and hath not
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yet eaten of it? let him also
go and return unto his house,
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lest he die in the battle,
and another man eat of it.
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And what man is there that hath
bethrothed a wife, and hath not
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taken her? let him go and return
unto his house, lest he die in
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the battle, and
another man take her.
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And the officers shall
speak further unto the people,
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and they shall say, What
man is there that is fearful
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and faint-hearted? let him
go and return unto his house,
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lest his brethren's heart
faint as well as his heart.
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And it shall be, when the
officers have made an end of
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speaking unto the people, that
they shall make captains of the
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armies to lead the people.
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When thou comest nigh unto
a city to fight against it,
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then proclaim peace unto it.
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And it shall be, if it make thee
answer of peace, and open unto
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thee, then it shall be, that all
the people that is found therein
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shall be tributaries unto
thee, and they shall serve thee.
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And if it will make no peace
with thee, but will make war
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against thee, then thou shalt
besiege it: and when the Lord
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thy God hath delivered it into
thine hands, thou shalt smite
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every male thereof
with the edge of the sword:
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but the women, and the
little ones, and the cattle,
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and all that is in the city,
even all the spoil thereof,
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shalt thou take unto thyself;
and thou shalt eat the spoil of
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thine enemies, which the
Lord thy God hath given thee.
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Thus shalt thou do unto all the
cities which are very far off
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from thee, which are not of
the cities of these nations.
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But of the cities of these
people, which the Lord thy God
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doth give thee for an
inheritance, thou shalt save
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alive nothing that breatheth:
but thou shalt utterly destroy
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them; namely, the Hittites, and
the Amorites, the Canaanites,
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and the Perizzites, the Hivites,
and the Jebusites; as the Lord
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thy God hath commanded thee:
that they teach you not to do
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after all their abominations,
which they have done unto their
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gods; so should ye sin
against the Lord your God.
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When thou shalt besiege a
city a long time, in making war
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against it to take it,
thou shalt not destroy the trees
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thereof by forcing an ax against
them: for thou mayest eat of
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them, and thou shalt not cut
them down (for the tree of the
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trees which thou knowest
that they be not trees for meat,
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thou shalt destroy and cut
them down; and thou shalt build
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bulwarks against the city
that maketh war with thee,
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until it be subdued.
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We're continuing in
Deuteronomy, chapter 21.
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If one be found slain in
the land which the Lord thy God
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giveth thee to possess it, lying
in the field, and it be not
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known who hath slain him: then
thy elders and thy judges shall
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come forth and they shall
measure unto the cities which
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are round about him that
is slain: and it shall be,
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that the city which is
next unto the slain man,
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even the elders of that
city shall take a heifer,
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which hath not been wrought
with, and which hath not drawn
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in the yoke; and the elders of
that city shall bring down the
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heifer unto a rough valley,
which is neither eared nor sown,
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and shall strike off the
heifer's neck there in the
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valley: and the priests and
sons of Levi shall come near;
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for them the Lord thy God hath
chosen to minister unto him,
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and to bless in the name of the
Lord; and by their word shall
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every controversy and every
stroke be tried: and all the
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elders of that city, that
are next unto the slain man,
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shall wash their hands over the
heifer that is beheaded in the
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valley: and they shall answer
and say, Our hands have not shed
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this blood, neither
have our eyes seen it.
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Be merciful, O Lord, unto thy
people Israel, whom thou hast
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redeemed, and lay not
innocent blood unto thy people
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of Israel's charge.
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And the blood
shall be forgiven them.
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So shalt thou put away the guilt
of innocent blood from among
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you, when thou shalt do
that which is right in the sight
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of the Lord.
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When thou goest forth to
war against thine enemies,
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and the Lord thy God hath
delivered them into thine hands,
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and thou hast taken them
captive, and seest among the
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captives a beautiful woman,
and hast a desire unto her,
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that thou wouldest have her to
thy wife; then thou shalt bring
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her home to thine house; and she
shall shave her head, and pare
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her nails; and she shall put the
raiment of her captivity from
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off her, and shall remain
in thine house, and bewail her
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father and her mother a
full month: and after that thou
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shalt go in unto her, and
be her husband, and she shall
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be thy wife.
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And it shall be, if thou have no
delight in her, then thou shalt
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let her go whither she will; but
thou shalt not sell her at all
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for money, thou shalt not make
merchandise of her, because thou
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hast humbled her.
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If a man have two wives,
one beloved, and another hated,
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and they have born him children,
both the beloved and the hated;
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and if the firstborn son be
hers that was hated: then it
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shall be, when he maketh his
sons to inherit that which he
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hath, that he may not make
the son of the beloved firstborn
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before the son of the hated,
which is indeed the firstborn:
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but he shall acknowledge the son
of the hated for the firstborn,
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by giving him a double portion
of all that he hath: for he
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is the beginning of his
strength; the right of the
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firstborn is his.
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If a man have a stubborn and
rebellious son, which will not
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obey the voice of his father,
or the voice of his mother,
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and that, when they have
chastened him, will not harken
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unto them: then shall his
father and his mother lay hold
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on him, and bring him out unto
the elders of his city, and unto
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the gate of his place; and they
shall say unto the elders of his
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city, This our son is stubborn
and rebellious, he will not
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obey our voice; he is a
glutton, and a drunkard.
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And all the men of his city
shall stone him with stones,
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that he die: so shalt thou
put evil away from among you;
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and all Israel
shall hear, and fear.
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And if a man have committed a
sin worthy of death, and he be
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to be put to death, and thou
hang him on a tree: his body
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shall not remain all night upon
the tree, but thou shalt in any
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wise bury him that day; (for
he that is hanged is accursed of
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God;) that thy land be not
defiled, which the Lord thy God
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giveth thee for an inheritance.
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We're continuing now in
Deuteronomy, chapter 22.
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This is the King James Version.
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Thou shalt not see thy brother's
ox or his sheep go astray,
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and hide thyself from them:
thou shalt in any case bring
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them again unto thy brother.
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And if thy brother be not nigh
unto thee, or if thou know him
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not, then thou shalt
bring it unto thine own house,
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and it shall be with thee
until thy brother seek after it,
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and thou shalt
restore it to him again.
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In like manner shalt thou do
with his ass; and so shalt thou
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do with his raiment; and
with all lost things of thy
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brother's, which he hath lost,
and thou hast found, shalt thou
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do likewise: thou
mayest not hide thyself.
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Thou shalt not see thy brother's
ass or his ox fall down by the
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way, and hide thyself from
them: thou shalt surely help him
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to lift them up again.
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The woman shall not wear that
which pertaineth unto a man,
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neither shall a man put on a
woman's garment: for all that
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do so are abomination
unto the Lord thy God.
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If a bird's nest chance to
be before thee in the way in any
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tree, or on the ground, whether
they be young ones, or eggs,
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and the dam sitting upon
the young, or upon the eggs,
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thou shalt not take the dam with
the young: but thou shalt in
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any wise let the dam go,
and take the young to thee;
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that it may be well with
thee, and that thou mayest
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prolong thy days.
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When thou buildest a new
house, then thou shalt make a
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battlement for thy roof,
that thou bring not blood upon
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thine house, if any
man fall from thence.
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Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard
with divers seeds: lest the
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fruit of thy seed which thou
hast sown, and the fruit of thy
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vineyard, be defiled.
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Thou shalt not plow with
an ox and an ass together.
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Thou shalt not wear a garment
of divers sorts, as of woolen
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and linen together.
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Thou shalt make thee fringes
upon the four quarters of thy
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vesture, wherewith
thou coverest thyself.
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If any man take a wife, and
go in unto her, and hate her,
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and give occasions of speech
against her, and bring up an
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evil name upon her, and say, I
took this woman, and when I came
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to her, I found her not a maid:
then shall the father of the
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damsel, and her mother, take and
bring forth the tokens of the
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damsel's virginity unto the
elders of the city in the gate:
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and the damsel's father shall
say unto the elders, I gave my
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daughter unto this man to wife,
and he hateth her; and, lo,
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he hath given occasions of
speech against her, saying,
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I found not thy daughter a maid;
and yet these are the tokens of
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my daughter's virginity.
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And they shall spread the cloth
before the elders of the city.
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And the elders of that city
shall take that man and chastise
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him; and they shall amerce him
in an hundred shekels of silver,
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and give them unto the father
of the damsel, because he hath
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brought up an evil name upon a
virgin of Israel: and she shall
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be his wife; he may not
put her away all his days.
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But if this thing be true, and
the tokens of virginity be not
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found for the damsel: then
they shall bring out the damsel
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to the door of her father's
house, and the men of her city
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shall stone her with stones
that she die: because she hath
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wrought folly in Israel, to play
the whore in her father's house:
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so shalt thou put
evil away from among you.
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If a man be found lying with
a women married to a husband,
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then they shall both of them
die, both the man that lay with
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the woman, and the
woman: so shalt thou put away
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evil from Israel.
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If a damsel that is a virgin
be bethrothed unto a husband,
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and a man find her in the city,
and lie with her; then ye shall
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bring them both out unto the
gate of that city, and ye shall
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stone them with stones
that they die; the damsel,
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because she cried not,
being in the city; and the man,
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because he hath humbled his
neighbor's wife: so thou shalt
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put away evil from among you.
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But if a man find a betrothed
damsel in the field, and the man
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force her, and lie with her:
then the man only that lay with
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her shall die: but unto the
damsel thou shalt do nothing;
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man riseth against his neighbor,
and slayeth him, even so is this
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matter: for he found her in the
field, and the betrothed damsel
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cried, and there
was none to save her.
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If a man find a damsel that is a
virgin, which is not betrothed,
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and lay hold on her, and
lie with her, and they be found;
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then the man that lay with
her shall give unto the damsel's
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father fifty shekels of silver,
and she shall be his wife;
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because he hath humbled
her, he may not put her away
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all his days.
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A man shall not take his
father's wife, nor discover
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his father's skirt.
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We're continuing in the
book of Deuteronomy, chapter 23,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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He that is wounded in the
stones, or hath his privy member
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cut off, shall not enter into
the congregation of the Lord.
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A bastard shall not enter into
the congregation of the Lord;
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even to his tenth generation
shall he not enter into the
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congregation of the Lord.
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An Ammonite or Moabite shall
not enter into the congregation
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of the Lord; even to their tenth
generation shall they not enter
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into the congregation of the
Lord for ever: because they met
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you not with bread and with
water in the way, when ye came
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forth out of Egypt; and because
they hired against thee Balaam
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the son of Beor of Pethor
of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
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Thank you for joining
with me today to read the Bible
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together.
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And until next time
goodbye, and God bless.
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