Today we begin Deuteronomy Chapter 23. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. In the last chapter, we saw how the idea of adultery was taken to a whole new level and was explained to us via the motif of “unauthorized mixtures”. Whenever we hear the word “adultery”, […]

We’re going to be closing out Deuteronomy Chapter 22 today. However, before we do I have a couple of things I want to point out before we move on to the next chapter. FIRST, we learned from the passages at hand that it is a man’s duty to protect the women living under his roof […]

“If a man comes upon a girl who is a virgin but who is not engaged, and he grabs her and has sexual relations with her, and they are caught in the act, then the man who had intercourse with her must give to the girl’s father one-and-a-quarter pounds of silver shekels, and she will […]

 “If a man is found sleeping with a woman who has a husband, both of them must die — the man who went to bed with the woman and the woman too. In this way you will expel such wickedness from Israel.  If a girl who is a virgin is engaged to a man, and […]

“But if the charge is substantiated that evidence for the girl’s virginity could not be found; then they are to lead the girl to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her town will stone her to death, because she has committed in Israel the disgraceful act of being a prostitute while […]