“A man with crushed or damaged private parts may not enter the assembly of Adonai.”-Deuteronomy 23:2 From verse 2 of Deuteronomy 23, we are given a series of instructions dealing with the topic of who can and cannot join Israel. Recall that when God first approached Abraham, He made it clear that Abraham’s faith would […]

“A man is not to take his father’s wife, thus violating his father’s rights.  A man with crushed or damaged private parts may not enter the assembly of Adonai.“-Deuteronomy 23:1-2 You wanna know what I really love about God’s Word? I love how God in His awesome sovereignty takes pretty much every universally accepted cultural […]

“A man shall not take his father’s wife so that he will not uncover his father’s skirt.” -Deuteronomy 23:1 (Or Deuteronomy 22:30 depending on the translation) Today I want to talk about the original wording of Deuteronomy 23:1, specifically the part where it says… …”shall not uncover his father’s skirt”. There are two important reasons […]

In my last post we went into the real meaning of Deuteronomy 23:1 which says  “A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed”. To recap, this verse is talking about how a son is NOT to have sexual relations with his former stepmother or his father’s concubines. […]

Today I’m going to tell you the real meaning of Deuteronomy 23:1 since most Bible teachers and preachers will usually just make this verse read what they think it means as opposed to what it really means. First, let’s take a look at a couple of translations of this verse. The Complete Jewish Bible says… […]