“You are not to eat anything disgusting.”-Deuteronomy 14:3 Verse 3 of Deuteronomy Chapter 14 begins a fairly long section dealing with the required holiness of the Israelite diet. What is key here is distinguishing between acceptable versus forbidden foods… …or to put it Scripturally… …clean versus unclean foods. Here’s an important point you need to […]

Today we begin Deuteronomy Chapter Fourteen. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. “You are the people of Adonai your God. You are not to gash yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead, because you are a people set apart as holy […]

“Heap all its spoils in an open space, and burn the city with its spoils to the ground for Adonai your God; it will remain a tel forever and not be built again — none of what has been set apart for destruction is to stay in your hands. Then Adonai will turn from his […]

“If you hear it told that in one of your cities which Adonai your God is giving you to live in, certain scoundrels have sprung up among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city by saying, ‘Let’s go and serve other gods, which you haven’t known,’ then you are to investigate the […]

“If your brother the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or your wife whom you love, or your friend who means as much to you as yourself, secretly tries to entice you to go and serve other gods, which you haven’t known, neither you nor your ancestors — gods of the […]