“A man is not to take his father’s wife, thus violating his father’s rights.”-Deuteronomy 23:1 (or 22:30) One quick point before I start my study for today. The majority of English Bibles will have the first verse of Deuteronomy 23 as the last verse of Deuteronomy 22. Understand this is no big deal however because there […]

I want to share a few more summarizing thoughts about unauthorized or illicit mixtures before we jump into our text study of Deuteronomy Chapter 23. First, understand that when we’re talking about unauthorized mixtures or unions, we’re not talking about the mixing of something “bad” with something “good”. When God prohibited wearing garments woven out […]

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 […]