1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,460 Hello, this is Father Paul and I am glad we are taking this journey together to read the 2 00:00:05,460 --> 00:00:09,140 Bible in a year. 3 00:00:09,140 --> 00:00:13,800 Today's reading is from Deuteronomy chapters 22 to 25. 4 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:14,800 Chapter 22 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:19,520 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and hide yourself from 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:20,520 them. 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:22,600 You shall certainly bring them back to your brother. 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,640 And if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring 9 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,760 it to your own house and it shall remain with you until your brother seeks it. 10 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:32,440 Then you shall restore it to him. 11 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:36,800 You shall do the same with his donkey and so shall you do with his garment. 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,680 With any lost thing of your brother's which he has lost and you have found, you shall 13 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:41,760 do likewise. 14 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,620 You must not hide yourself. 15 00:00:43,620 --> 00:00:47,880 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fall down along the road and hide 16 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:49,040 yourself from them. 17 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,040 You shall surely help him lift them up again. 18 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:56,880 A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's 19 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:57,880 garment. 20 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,480 For all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God. 21 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:07,040 If a bird's nest happens to be before you along the way in any tree or on the ground, 22 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,680 with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not 23 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,480 take the mother with the young. 24 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:17,480 You shall surely let the mother go and take the young for yourself that it may be well 25 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,280 with you and that you may prolong your days. 26 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,280 When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may 27 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:28,560 not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it. 28 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:33,240 You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed 29 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,440 which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled. 30 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,360 You shall not plough with an ox and a donkey together. 31 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:44,240 You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together. 32 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:49,440 You shall make tassels on the four corners of the clothing with which you cover yourself. 33 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:53,840 If any man takes a wife and goes into her and detests her, and charges her with shameful 34 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:58,520 conduct and brings a bad name on her and says, I took this woman and when I came to her I 35 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:02,960 found she was not a virgin, then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and 36 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,200 bring out the evidence of the young woman's virginity to the elders of the city at the 37 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:10,460 gate, and the young woman's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this 38 00:02:10,460 --> 00:02:13,080 man as wife and he detests her. 39 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:17,920 Now he has charged her with shameful conduct saying, I found your daughter was not a virgin. 40 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:21,120 And yet these are the evidences of my daughter's virginity. 41 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,360 And they shall spread the clothe before the elders of the city. 42 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,720 Then the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him. 43 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,400 And they shall find him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the 44 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:35,640 young woman, because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel. 45 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:39,760 And she shall be his wife, he cannot divorce her all his days. 46 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,480 But if the thing is true and evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman, 47 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:47,880 then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the 48 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:52,080 men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done a disgraceful 49 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,320 thing in Israel to play the harlot in her father's house. 50 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,960 So you shall put away the evil from among you. 51 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:02,860 If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die, 52 00:03:02,860 --> 00:03:05,420 the man that lay with the woman and the woman. 53 00:03:05,420 --> 00:03:07,800 So you shall put away the evil from Israel. 54 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:12,300 If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city 55 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:16,440 and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you 56 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,880 shall stone them to death with stones. 57 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,800 The young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humbled 58 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:24,100 his neighbor's wife. 59 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:26,700 So you shall put away the evil from among you. 60 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:30,560 But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the court side, and the man forces her 61 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,420 and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. 62 00:03:34,420 --> 00:03:38,440 But you shall do nothing to the young woman, there is in the young woman no sin deserving 63 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:39,520 of death. 64 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:44,800 For just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter. 65 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,440 For he found her in the court side, and the betrothed young woman cried out, but there 66 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,300 was no one to save her. 67 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:55,120 If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and 68 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,280 lies with her, and they are found out, then the man who lay with her shall give to the 69 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,720 young woman's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife because he has humbled 70 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:04,720 her. 71 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,520 He shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days. 72 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:12,080 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed. 73 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:13,800 Chapter 23. 74 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:19,360 He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall not enter the assembly of the Lord. 75 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:24,040 One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the Lord, even to the tenth 76 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:25,040 generation. 77 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,480 None of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord. 78 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,240 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord. 79 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,360 Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the 80 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:41,000 Lord forever, because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you 81 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:46,680 came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pithor 82 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:48,880 of Mesopotamia to curse you. 83 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:53,060 Nevertheless, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned 84 00:04:53,060 --> 00:04:56,760 the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you. 85 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:01,360 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. 86 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,180 You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. 87 00:05:04,180 --> 00:05:07,740 You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you are an alien in his land. 88 00:05:07,740 --> 00:05:13,060 The children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord. 89 00:05:13,060 --> 00:05:17,600 When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing. 90 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,660 If there is any man among you who becomes unclean by some occurrence in the night, then 91 00:05:22,660 --> 00:05:24,480 he shall go outside the camp. 92 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,620 He shall not come inside the camp. 93 00:05:26,620 --> 00:05:30,480 But it shall be, when evening comes, that he shall wash with water, and when the sun 94 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,120 sets he may come into the camp. 95 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:37,380 Also you shall have a place outside the camp, where you may go out, and you shall have an 96 00:05:37,380 --> 00:05:41,820 implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside you shall dig with it and 97 00:05:41,820 --> 00:05:44,020 turn and cover your refuse. 98 00:05:44,020 --> 00:05:47,860 For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies 99 00:05:47,860 --> 00:05:49,380 over to you. 100 00:05:49,380 --> 00:05:53,400 Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may see no unclean thing among you and turn 101 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:54,700 away from you. 102 00:05:54,700 --> 00:05:59,840 You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you. 103 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:03,900 He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your 104 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:07,940 gates, where it seems best to him, you shall not oppress him. 105 00:06:07,940 --> 00:06:11,940 There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the sons 106 00:06:11,940 --> 00:06:13,020 of Israel. 107 00:06:13,020 --> 00:06:16,860 You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the 108 00:06:16,860 --> 00:06:21,460 Lord your God for any vowed offering, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord 109 00:06:21,460 --> 00:06:22,700 your God. 110 00:06:22,700 --> 00:06:27,220 You shall not charge interest to your brother, interest on money or food or anything that 111 00:06:27,220 --> 00:06:29,180 is lent out at interest. 112 00:06:29,180 --> 00:06:33,700 To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, 113 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:38,100 that the Lord your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which 114 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:40,540 you are entering to possess. 115 00:06:40,540 --> 00:06:44,240 When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for the Lord 116 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,940 your God will surely require it of you and it will be sent to you. 117 00:06:47,940 --> 00:06:51,400 But if you abstain from vowing, it shall not be sent to you. 118 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:56,020 That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you voluntarily vow 119 00:06:56,020 --> 00:06:59,740 to the Lord your God what you have promised with your mouth. 120 00:06:59,740 --> 00:07:03,980 When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure, 121 00:07:03,980 --> 00:07:06,660 but you shall not put any in your container. 122 00:07:06,660 --> 00:07:10,700 When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, you may plug the heads with your hand, 123 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:14,700 but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor's standing grain. 124 00:07:14,700 --> 00:07:18,340 Chapter 24 When a man takes a wife and marries her, and 125 00:07:18,340 --> 00:07:22,460 it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness 126 00:07:22,460 --> 00:07:27,300 in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand and sends her 127 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:31,820 out of his house, when she has departed from his house and goes and becomes another man's 128 00:07:31,820 --> 00:07:32,820 wife. 129 00:07:32,820 --> 00:07:37,220 If the latter husband detests her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her 130 00:07:37,220 --> 00:07:42,020 hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her as his 131 00:07:42,020 --> 00:07:46,980 wife, then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife 132 00:07:46,980 --> 00:07:48,960 after she has been defiled. 133 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:53,420 For that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which 134 00:07:53,420 --> 00:07:57,060 the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance. 135 00:07:57,060 --> 00:08:02,540 When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business, 136 00:08:02,540 --> 00:08:07,440 he shall be free at home one year and bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken. 137 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:13,640 No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes one's living in pledge. 138 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:17,980 If a man is found kidnapping any of his brethren of the children of Israel and mistreats him 139 00:08:17,980 --> 00:08:22,420 or sells him, then that kidnapper shall die, and you shall put away the evil from among 140 00:08:22,420 --> 00:08:23,420 you. 141 00:08:23,420 --> 00:08:27,580 Take heed in an outbreak of leprosy that you carefully observe and do according to all 142 00:08:27,580 --> 00:08:30,700 that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you. 143 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:33,980 Just as I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do. 144 00:08:33,980 --> 00:08:38,460 Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way when you came out of Egypt. 145 00:08:38,460 --> 00:08:42,660 When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. 146 00:08:42,660 --> 00:08:47,260 You shall stand outside and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge out to you. 147 00:08:47,260 --> 00:08:50,720 And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight. 148 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:55,260 You shall in any case return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down, that he 149 00:08:55,260 --> 00:08:59,560 may sleep in his own garment and bless you, and it shall be righteousness to you before 150 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:01,140 the Lord your God. 151 00:09:01,140 --> 00:09:05,540 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brethren 152 00:09:05,540 --> 00:09:09,120 or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates. 153 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:14,200 Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor 154 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,060 and has set his heart on it. 155 00:09:16,060 --> 00:09:20,180 Lest he cry out against you to the Lord and it be sin to you. 156 00:09:20,180 --> 00:09:24,340 Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death 157 00:09:24,340 --> 00:09:25,460 for their fathers. 158 00:09:25,460 --> 00:09:28,220 A person shall be put to death for his own sin. 159 00:09:28,220 --> 00:09:32,780 You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, nor take a widow's garment 160 00:09:32,780 --> 00:09:33,900 as a pledge. 161 00:09:33,900 --> 00:09:37,760 But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you 162 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:38,760 from there. 163 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,100 Therefore I command you to do this thing. 164 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:45,340 When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not 165 00:09:45,340 --> 00:09:46,860 go back to get it. 166 00:09:46,860 --> 00:09:51,100 It shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may 167 00:09:51,100 --> 00:09:53,700 bless you in all the work of your hands. 168 00:09:53,700 --> 00:09:57,940 When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over the boughs again. 169 00:09:57,940 --> 00:10:01,060 It shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. 170 00:10:01,060 --> 00:10:04,940 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward. 171 00:10:04,940 --> 00:10:08,860 It shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and you shall remember that 172 00:10:08,860 --> 00:10:11,300 you were a slave in the land of Egypt. 173 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:14,460 Therefore I command you to do this thing. 174 00:10:14,460 --> 00:10:18,300 Chapter 25 If there is a dispute between men, and they 175 00:10:18,300 --> 00:10:22,780 come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn 176 00:10:22,780 --> 00:10:27,100 the wicked, then it shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judges 177 00:10:27,100 --> 00:10:31,580 will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with 178 00:10:31,580 --> 00:10:33,380 a certain number of blows. 179 00:10:33,380 --> 00:10:37,500 Forty blows he may give him, and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with 180 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:41,780 many blows above these, and your brother be humiliated in your sight. 181 00:10:41,780 --> 00:10:45,460 You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain. 182 00:10:45,460 --> 00:10:49,580 If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead 183 00:10:49,580 --> 00:10:52,940 man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family. 184 00:10:52,940 --> 00:10:57,200 Her husband's brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty 185 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,220 of a husband's brother to her. 186 00:10:59,220 --> 00:11:03,620 And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his 187 00:11:03,620 --> 00:11:08,000 dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. 188 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,620 But if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to 189 00:11:12,620 --> 00:11:17,460 the gates to the elders and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up a name to his 190 00:11:17,460 --> 00:11:18,740 brother in Israel. 191 00:11:18,740 --> 00:11:21,420 He will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. 192 00:11:21,420 --> 00:11:24,600 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. 193 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,900 But if he stands firm and says, I do not want to take her, then his brother's wife shall 194 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:34,160 come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his 195 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:39,460 face and answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother's 196 00:11:39,460 --> 00:11:40,460 house. 197 00:11:40,460 --> 00:11:45,100 And his name shall be called in Israel the house of him who had his sandal removed. 198 00:11:45,100 --> 00:11:48,980 If two men fight together and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from 199 00:11:48,980 --> 00:11:54,100 the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals, 200 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:57,940 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall not pity her. 201 00:11:57,940 --> 00:12:02,100 You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. 202 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:06,100 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 203 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:10,340 You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days 204 00:12:10,340 --> 00:12:14,220 may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. 205 00:12:14,220 --> 00:12:19,180 For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the Lord 206 00:12:19,180 --> 00:12:20,660 your God. 207 00:12:20,660 --> 00:12:25,340 Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, how he met 208 00:12:25,340 --> 00:12:30,060 you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear when you were 209 00:12:30,060 --> 00:12:33,140 tired and weary, and he did not fear God. 210 00:12:33,140 --> 00:12:37,580 Therefore it shall be when the Lord your God has given you rest from your enemies all around 211 00:12:37,580 --> 00:12:41,820 in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance that you 212 00:12:41,820 --> 00:12:45,260 will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. 213 00:12:45,260 --> 00:12:51,540 You shall not forget. 214 00:12:51,540 --> 00:12:55,160 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you 215 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,260 again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 216 00:12:57,260 --> 00:13:01,820 God bless you and have a great day.