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Today's Bible Reading :: Deuteronomy 24 - 27 (ESV)

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Deuteronomy 24

Laws Concerning Divorce

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:1 - “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:2 - and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:3 - and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the LORD. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Miscellaneous Laws

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:5 - “When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife[fn] whom he has taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:6 - “No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7 - “If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:8 - “Take care, in a case of leprous[fn] disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:9 - Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:10 - “When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to collect his pledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:11 - You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:12 - And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:13 - You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And it shall be righteousness for you before the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 - “You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:15 - You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the LORD, and you be guilty of sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:16 - “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:17 - “You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:18 - but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:19 - “When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:20 - When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:21 - When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:22 - You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.
ESV Footnotes
Or to make happy his wife
Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13

Deuteronomy 25

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:1 - “If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:2 - then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:4 - “You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:5 - “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:6 - And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - And if the man does not wish to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:8 - Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, ‘I do not wish to take her,’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:9 - then his brother’s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:10 - And the name of his house[fn] shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.’

Miscellaneous Laws

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11 - “When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:12 - then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:13 - “You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:14 - You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:15 - A full and fair[fn] weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:16 - For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:17 - “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:18 - how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19 - Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew its name
Or just, or righteous; twice in this verse

Deuteronomy 26

Offerings of Firstfruits and Tithes

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:1 - “When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2 - you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:3 - And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:4 - Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - “And you shall make response before the LORD your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:6 - And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:7 - Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:8 - And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror,[fn] with signs and wonders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:9 - And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10 - And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O LORD, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before the LORD your God and worship before the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:11 - And you shall rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:12 - “When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - then you shall say before the LORD your God, ‘I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:14 - I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15 - Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:16 - “This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:17 - You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:18 - And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:19 - and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised.”
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew with great terror

Deuteronomy 27

The Altar on Mount Ebal

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:1 - Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep the whole commandment that I command you today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:2 - And on the day you cross over the Jordan to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones and plaster them with plaster.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3 - And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:4 - And when you have crossed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:5 - And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You shall wield no iron tool on them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:6 - you shall build an altar to the LORD your God of uncut[fn] stones. And you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:7 - and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and shall eat there, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:8 - And you shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”

Curses from Mount Ebal

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:9 - Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, “Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:10 - You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:11 - That day Moses charged the people, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:12 - “When you have crossed over the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:13 - And these shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:14 - And the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel in a loud voice:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:15 - “‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:16 - “‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:17 - “‘Cursed be anyone who moves his neighbor’s landmark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:18 - “‘Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19 - “‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:20 - “‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s nakedness.’[fn] And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:21 - “‘Cursed be anyone who lies with any kind of animal.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:22 - “‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:23 - “‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:24 - “‘Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:25 - “‘Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:26 - “‘Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
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Hebrew whole
Hebrew uncovered his father’s skirt
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