WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.410 Day 100 and 56 00:00:04.776 --> 00:00:09.036 when you go out to fight your enemies and you face horses and chariots and an army 00:00:09.036 --> 00:00:11.646 greater than your own, do not be afraid. 00:00:12.456 --> 00:00:16.566 The Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt is with you. 00:00:17.286 --> 00:00:21.156 When you prepare for battle, the priest must come forward to speak to the troops. 00:00:21.456 --> 00:00:25.416 He will say to them, listen to me, all you men of Israel. 00:00:25.941 --> 00:00:28.971 Do not be afraid as you go out to fight your enemies today. 00:00:29.391 --> 00:00:32.871 Do not lose heart or panic or tremble before them. 00:00:33.291 --> 00:00:35.631 For the Lord, your God is going with you. 00:00:36.141 --> 00:00:39.921 He will fight for you against your enemies and he will give you victory. 00:00:40.911 --> 00:00:44.511 Then the officers of the army must address the troops and say, 00:00:45.231 --> 00:00:49.041 has anyone here just built a new house but not yet dedicated it? 00:00:49.611 --> 00:00:53.901 If so, you may go home, you might be killed in the battle and someone 00:00:53.901 --> 00:00:55.281 else would dedicate your house. 00:00:56.001 --> 00:01:00.141 Has anyone here just planted a vineyard but not yet eaten any of its fruit? 00:01:00.711 --> 00:01:05.121 If so, you may go home, you might die in battle, and someone 00:01:05.121 --> 00:01:06.531 else would eat the first fruit. 00:01:07.251 --> 00:01:11.511 Has anyone here just become engaged to a woman but not yet married her? 00:01:12.291 --> 00:01:14.661 Well, you may go home and get married. 00:01:15.381 --> 00:01:18.291 You might die in the battle and someone else would marry her. 00:01:19.431 --> 00:01:24.051 Then the officers will also say, is anyone here afraid or worried? 00:01:24.741 --> 00:01:28.041 If you are, you may go home before you frighten anyone else. 00:01:29.151 --> 00:01:31.911 When the officers have finished speaking to their troops, they 00:01:31.911 --> 00:01:33.801 will appoint the unit commanders. 00:01:35.601 --> 00:01:38.751 As you approach a town to attack it, you must first offer 00:01:38.751 --> 00:01:40.371 its people terms for peace. 00:01:40.881 --> 00:01:44.271 If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people 00:01:44.271 --> 00:01:46.371 inside will serve you in forced labor. 00:01:47.121 --> 00:01:49.911 But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, 00:01:50.391 --> 00:01:52.071 you must attack the town. 00:01:52.731 --> 00:01:55.311 When the Lord your God, hands the town over to you. 00:01:55.641 --> 00:01:59.541 Use your swords to kill every man in the town, but you may keep for 00:01:59.541 --> 00:02:03.291 yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. 00:02:03.861 --> 00:02:06.531 You may enjoy the plunder from your enemies, but the 00:02:06.531 --> 00:02:08.121 Lord your God has given you. 00:02:09.291 --> 00:02:12.831 But these instructions apply only to distant towns, not to the 00:02:12.831 --> 00:02:14.481 towns of the nations in the land. 00:02:14.481 --> 00:02:18.741 You will enter in those towns that the Lord your God is giving you as a special 00:02:18.746 --> 00:02:21.561 possession, destroy every living thing. 00:02:22.311 --> 00:02:26.061 You must completely destroy the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, 00:02:26.181 --> 00:02:31.581 parasites, HIEs, and Jebusites, just as the Lord your God has commanded you. 00:02:32.121 --> 00:02:35.301 This will prevent the people of the land from teaching you to imitate their 00:02:35.301 --> 00:02:39.141 detestable customs in the worship of their gods, which would cause you to 00:02:39.141 --> 00:02:41.571 sin deeply against the Lord your God. 00:02:42.981 --> 00:02:46.851 When you are attacking a town and the war drags on, you must not 00:02:46.851 --> 00:02:48.621 cut down the trees with your axes. 00:02:49.146 --> 00:02:52.356 You may eat the fruit, but do not cut down the trees. 00:02:52.956 --> 00:02:55.566 Are the trees your enemies that you should attack them? 00:02:56.166 --> 00:02:59.496 You may only cut down trees that you know are not valuable for food. 00:03:00.006 --> 00:03:04.266 Use them to make the equipment You need to attack the enemy town until it falls. 00:03:04.456 --> 00:03:09.156 When you are in the land, the Lord your God is giving you. 00:03:09.606 --> 00:03:12.606 Someone may be found murdered in a field and you don't know 00:03:12.606 --> 00:03:13.776 who committed the murder. 00:03:14.406 --> 00:03:18.186 In such a case, your elders and judges must measure the distance from the 00:03:18.186 --> 00:03:20.676 site of the crime to the nearby towns. 00:03:21.306 --> 00:03:25.056 When the nearest town has been determined that town's elders must select from 00:03:25.056 --> 00:03:30.306 their herd, a heifer that has never been trained or yoked to a plow, they must 00:03:30.306 --> 00:03:34.716 lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted, and that has a stream 00:03:34.716 --> 00:03:36.996 running through it there in the valley. 00:03:37.266 --> 00:03:38.976 They must break the heifer's neck. 00:03:39.666 --> 00:03:42.966 Then the Levitical priests must step forward for the Lord. 00:03:42.966 --> 00:03:46.836 Your God has chosen them to minister before him and to pronounce 00:03:46.836 --> 00:03:48.366 blessings in the Lord's name. 00:03:49.056 --> 00:03:51.876 They are to decide all legal and criminal cases. 00:03:52.806 --> 00:03:55.326 The elders of the town must wash their hands over the 00:03:55.326 --> 00:03:57.096 heifer whose neck was broken. 00:03:57.576 --> 00:04:01.116 Then they must say, our hands did not shed this person's 00:04:01.116 --> 00:04:03.096 blood, nor did we see it happen. 00:04:03.966 --> 00:04:07.626 Oh Lord, forgive your people Israel, whom you have redeemed. 00:04:08.106 --> 00:04:11.286 Do not charge your people with the guilt of murdering an innocent 00:04:11.286 --> 00:04:15.426 person, then they will be absolved of the guilt of this person's blood. 00:04:16.026 --> 00:04:19.176 By following these instructions, you will do what is right in the 00:04:19.176 --> 00:04:23.466 Lord's sight and will cleanse the guilt of murder from your community. 00:04:25.056 --> 00:04:28.386 Suppose you go out to war against your enemies and the Lord your 00:04:28.386 --> 00:04:31.956 God hands them over to you and you take some of them as captives. 00:04:32.676 --> 00:04:36.306 And suppose you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you are 00:04:36.306 --> 00:04:38.406 attracted to her and want to marry her. 00:04:39.276 --> 00:04:43.716 If this happens, you may take her to your home where she must shave her head, 00:04:44.046 --> 00:04:47.736 cut her nails, and change the clothes she was wearing when she was captured. 00:04:48.516 --> 00:04:51.606 She will stay in your home, but let her mourn for her father 00:04:51.606 --> 00:04:52.986 and mother for a full month. 00:04:53.706 --> 00:04:58.296 Then you may marry her and you will be her husband and she will be your wife. 00:04:59.271 --> 00:05:03.141 If you marry her and she does not please you, you must let her go free. 00:05:03.951 --> 00:05:08.271 You may not sell her or treat her as a slave for you have humiliated her. 00:05:09.591 --> 00:05:13.491 Suppose a man has two wives, but he loves one and not the other. 00:05:13.821 --> 00:05:15.381 And both have given him sons. 00:05:16.011 --> 00:05:18.951 And suppose the firstborn son is the son of the wife. 00:05:18.951 --> 00:05:22.311 He does not love when the man divides his inheritance. 00:05:22.551 --> 00:05:25.551 He may not give the larger inheritance to his younger son. 00:05:25.926 --> 00:05:29.346 The son of the wife, he loves as if he were the firstborn son. 00:05:30.036 --> 00:05:33.546 He must recognize the rights of his oldest son, the son of the wife. 00:05:33.546 --> 00:05:36.396 He does not love by giving him a double portion. 00:05:37.026 --> 00:05:40.686 He is the first son of his father's virility and the rights 00:05:40.686 --> 00:05:42.486 of the firstborn belong to him. 00:05:44.196 --> 00:05:47.376 Suppose a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not 00:05:47.376 --> 00:05:50.526 obey his father or mother even though they discipline him. 00:05:51.351 --> 00:05:54.381 In such a case, the father and mother must take the on to 00:05:54.381 --> 00:05:56.181 the elders as they hold court. 00:05:56.181 --> 00:05:57.021 At the town gate. 00:05:57.591 --> 00:06:01.311 The parents must say to the elders, this son of ours is stubborn and 00:06:01.311 --> 00:06:03.681 rebellious and refuses to obey. 00:06:04.041 --> 00:06:06.081 He is a glutton and a drunkard. 00:06:06.711 --> 00:06:09.351 Then all the men of his town must stone him to death. 00:06:10.071 --> 00:06:14.241 In this way, you will purge this evil from among you and all Israel 00:06:14.241 --> 00:06:16.341 will hear about it and be afraid. 00:06:17.856 --> 00:06:21.606 If someone has committed a crime worthy of death and is executed and 00:06:21.606 --> 00:06:25.716 hung on a tree, the body must not remain hanging from the tree overnight. 00:06:26.376 --> 00:06:28.536 You must bury the body that same day. 00:06:28.956 --> 00:06:32.016 For anyone who is hung is cursed in the sight of God. 00:06:32.556 --> 00:06:35.526 In this way, you will prevent the defilement of the land. 00:06:35.556 --> 00:06:38.636 The Lord your God is giving you as your special possession. 00:06:39.966 --> 00:06:44.436 If you see your neighbor's ox or sheep or goat wandering away, 00:06:44.796 --> 00:06:46.716 don't ignore your responsibility. 00:06:47.046 --> 00:06:48.456 Take it back to its owner. 00:06:48.966 --> 00:06:52.866 If its owner does not live nearby or you don't know who the owner is, 00:06:53.496 --> 00:06:56.616 take it to your place and keep it until the owner comes looking for it. 00:06:56.946 --> 00:06:58.266 Then you must return it. 00:06:58.926 --> 00:06:59.496 Do the same. 00:06:59.501 --> 00:07:02.436 If you find your neighbor's donkey, clothing, or anything 00:07:02.436 --> 00:07:03.636 else your neighbor loses. 00:07:04.116 --> 00:07:05.946 Don't ignore your responsibility. 00:07:07.041 --> 00:07:10.431 If you see that your neighbor's donkey or ox has collapsed on the 00:07:10.431 --> 00:07:12.471 road, do not look the other way. 00:07:12.831 --> 00:07:15.261 Go and help your neighbor get it back on its feet. 00:07:16.071 --> 00:07:20.451 A woman must not put on men's clothing and a man must not wear women's clothing. 00:07:21.171 --> 00:07:24.831 Anyone who does this is detestable at the sight of the Lord your God. 00:07:25.231 --> 00:07:29.661 If you happen to find a bird's nest in a tree or on the ground and there 00:07:29.661 --> 00:07:33.351 are young ones or eggs in it with the mother sitting in the nest, do 00:07:33.351 --> 00:07:34.791 not take the mother with the young. 00:07:35.376 --> 00:07:38.916 You may take the young, but let the mother go so that you may 00:07:38.916 --> 00:07:40.986 prosper and enjoy a long life. 00:07:42.246 --> 00:07:45.006 When you build a new house, you must build a railing around 00:07:45.011 --> 00:07:46.356 the edge of its flat roof. 00:07:46.836 --> 00:07:50.856 That way you will not be considered guilty of murder if someone falls from the roof. 00:07:51.756 --> 00:07:54.906 You must not plant any other crop between the rows of your vineyard. 00:07:55.416 --> 00:07:58.506 If you do, you are forbidden to use either the grapes from 00:07:58.506 --> 00:08:00.336 the vineyard or the other crop. 00:08:01.431 --> 00:08:05.301 You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together. 00:08:05.991 --> 00:08:09.261 You must not wear clothing made of wool and linen woven together. 00:08:10.101 --> 00:08:13.161 You must put four tassels on the hem of the cloak with which you cover 00:08:13.161 --> 00:08:16.731 yourself on the front, back, and sides. 00:08:18.651 --> 00:08:21.531 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:08:21.651 --> 00:08:22.641 Thank you for joining us.