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This daily Bible podcast will take you through the Bible in a year following the Immerse Bible Reading Experience. So grab your family and small group and go through the Bible in a year together with Immerse. Each of the 6 volumes is available online or at your favorite Christian bookstore.
Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.
day 100 and 57
Suppose a man marries a woman, but after
sleeping with her, he turns against her
and publicly accuses her of shameful
conduct, saying, when I married this
woman, I discovered she was not a virgin.
Then the woman's father and
mother must bring the proof of
her virginity to the elders as
they hold court at the town gate.
Her father must say to them, I gave my
daughter to this man to be his wife,
and now he has turned against her.
He has accused her of shameful conduct
saying, I discovered that your daughter
was not a virgin, but here is the
proof of my daughter's virginity.
Then they must spread her
bedsheet before the elders.
The elders must then take
the man and punish him.
They must also find him 100 pieces of
silver, which he must pay to the woman's
father because he publicly accused a
virgin of Israel of shameful conduct.
The woman will then remain the man's
wife, and he may never divorce her.
But suppose the man's accusations are true
and he can show that she was not a virgin.
The woman must be taken to the door of
her father's home, and there the men
of the town must stone her to death.
She has committed a disgraceful
crime in Israel by being promiscuous
while living in her parents' home.
In this way, you will purge
this evil from among you.
If a man is discovered committing
adultery, both he and the woman must die.
In this way, you will
purge Israel of such evil.
Suppose a man meets a young woman, a
virgin who is engaged to be married,
and he has sexual intercourse with her.
If this happens within a town, you
must take both of them to the gates
of that town and stone them to death.
The woman is guilty because
she did not scream for help.
The man must die because he
violated another man's wife.
In this way, you will purge
this evil from among you.
But if the man meets the engaged
woman out in the country and he rapes
her, then only the man must die.
Do nothing to the young woman.
She has committed no
crime worthy of death.
She is as innocent as a murder
victim since the man raped her
out in the country, it must be
assumed that she screamed, but
there was no one to rescue her.
Suppose a man has intercourse
with a young woman who is a virgin
but is not engaged to be married.
If they're discovered he must pay her
father 50 pieces of silver, then he
must marry the young woman because
he violated her and he may never
divorce her as long as he lives.
A man must not marry his father's former
wife for this would violate his father.
If a man's testicles are crushed or
his penis is cut off, he may not be
admitted to the assembly of the Lord.
If a person is illegitimate by
birth, neither he nor his descendants
for 10 generations may be admitted
to the assembly of the Lord.
No ammonite or Moabite, or any of their
descendants for 10 generations may be
admitted to the assembly of the Lord.
These nations did not welcome you with
food and water when you came out of Egypt.
Instead, they hired Baam sand bor from
Phor in distant arra ne to curse you.
But the Lord, your God
refused to listen to balam.
He turned the intended curse into
a blessing because the Lord, your
God loves you as long as you live.
You must never promote the welfare and
prosperity of the Ammonites or Moabites.
Do not detest the Edomites or the
Egyptians because the Edomites are
your relatives and you lived as
foreigners among the Egyptians.
The third generation of
Edomites and Egyptians may
enter the assembly of the Lord.
When you go to war against your
enemies, be sure to stay away
from anything that is impure.
Any man who becomes ceremonially defiled
because of a nocturnal emission, must
leave the camp and stay away all day.
Toward evening, he must bathe himself,
and at sunset he may return to the camp.
You must have a designated
area outside the camp where
you can go to relieve yourself.
Each of you must have a spade
as part of your equipment
whenever you relieve yourself.
Dig a hole with the spade
and cover the excrement.
The camp must be holy for the Lord.
Your God moves around in your camp to
protect you and to defeat your enemies.
He must not see any shameful thing among
you, or he will turn away from you.
If slaves should escape from their
masters and take refuge with you, you
must not hand them over to their masters.
Let them live among you in any town
they choose and do not oppress them.
No Israelite whether man or woman
may become a temple prostitute.
When you are bringing in offering to
fulfill a vow, you must not bring to the
house of the Lord your God, any offering
from the earnings of a prostitute.
Whether a man or a woman for both
are detestable to the Lord your God,
do not charge interest on the loans
you make to a fellow Israelite.
Whether you loan money or food
or anything else, you may charge
interest to foreigners, but you may
not charge interest to Israelites
so that the Lord your God may bless
you in everything you do in the land
you are about to enter and occupy.
When you make a vow to the Lord your
God, be prompt in fulfilling whatever
you promised him for the Lord your God
demands that you promptly fulfill all
your vows or you will be guilty of sin.
However, it is not a sin to refrain
from making a vow, but once you have
voluntarily made a vow, be careful to
fulfill your promise to the Lord your God.
When you enter your neighbor's vineyard,
you may eat your fill of grapes, but
you must not carry any away in a basket.
And when you enter your neighbor's
field of grain, you may pluck the
heads of grain with your hand, but
you must not harvest it with a sickle.
Suppose a man marries a woman,
but she does not please him.
Having discovered something wrong
with her, he writes a document
of divorce, hands it to her, and
sends her away from his house.
When she leaves his house,
she's free to marry another man.
But if the second husband also turns
against her, writes a document of
divorce, hands it to her and sends
her away, or if he dies, the first
husband may not marry her again.
For she has been defiled, that
would be detestable to the Lord.
You must not bring guilt upon the land.
The Lord your God is giving
you as a special possession.
If a newly married man must not be
drafted into the army or be given
any other official responsibilities,
he must be free to spend one year at
home bringing happiness to the wife.
He is married.
It is wrong to take a set of millstones
or even just the upper millstone.
A security for a loan for the
owner uses it to make a living.
If anyone kidnaps a fellow Israelite
and treats him as a slave or
sells him, the kidnapper must die.
In this way, you will purge the
evil from among you in all cases
involving serious skin diseases.
Be careful to follow the instructions
of the Levitical priests.
Obey all the commands I have given them.
Remember what the Lord your God did to
Miriam as you were coming from Egypt.
If you lent anything to your neighbor,
do not enter his house to pick up
the item He is giving as security.
You must wait outside while he
goes in and brings it out to you.
If your neighbor is poor and gives
you his cloak, a security for loan,
do not keep the cloak overnight.
Return the cloak to its owner
by sunset so he can stay warm
through the night and bless you.
And the Lord your God will
count you as righteous.
Never take advantage of poor
and destitute laborers, whether
they are fellow Israelites or
foreigners living in your towns.
You must pay them their wages each
day before sunset because they
are poor and are counting on it.
If you don't, they might cry out
to the Lord against you and it
would be counted against you.
As sin, parents must not be put to death
for the sins of their children, nor
children for the sins of their parents.
Those deserving to die must be
put to death for their own crimes.
True justice must be given to foreigners,
living among you and to orphans.
And you must never accept a widow's
garment, a security for her debt.
Always remember that you were slaves
in Egypt and that the Lord your
God redeemed you from your slavery.
That is why I have given you this
command when you are harvesting
your crops and forget to bring in
a bundle of grain from your field.
Don't go back to get it.
Leave it for the foreigners,
orphans, and widows.
Then the Lord your God will
bless you and all you do.
When you beat the olives from your olive
trees, don't go over the bows twice.
Leave the remaining olives for the
foreigners, orphans, and widows when
you gather the grapes in your vineyard.
Don't glean the vines
after they are picked.
Leave the remaining grapes for the
foreigners, orphans, and widows.
Remember that you were slaves in
the land of Egypt, and that is
why I am giving you this command.
Suppose two people take a dispute to
court, and the judges declare that
one is right and the other is wrong.
If the person in the wrong is
sentenced to be flogged, the judge
must command him to lie down and be
beaten in his presence with a number
of lashes appropriate to the crime.
But never give more than 40 lashes.
More than 40 lashes would
publicly humiliate your neighbor.
You must not muzzle an ox to keep it
from eating as it treads out the grain.
If two brothers are living together on
the same property and one of them dies
without a son, his widow may not be
married to anyone from outside the family.
Instead, her husband's brother should
marry her and have intercourse with her
to fulfill the duties of a brother-in-law.
The first son she bears to him
will be considered the son of the
dead brother, so that his name
will not be forgotten in Israel.
But if the man refuses to marry
his brother's widow, she must
go to the town gate and say to
the elders, assembled there.
My husband's brother refuses to
preserve his brother's name in Israel.
He refuses to fulfill the duties
of a brother-in-law by marrying me.
The elders of the town will then summon
him and talk with him if he still refuses
and says, I don't want to marry her.
The widow must walk over to him in the
presence of the elders, pull his sandal
from his foot and spit in his face.
Then she must declare, this is
what happens to a man who refuses
to provide his brother with
children ever afterward in Israel.
His family will be referred
to as the family of the man
whose sandal was pulled off.
If two Israelite men get into a fight
and the wife of one tries to rescue her
husband by grabbing the testicles of the
other man, you must cut off her hand.
Show her no pity.
You must use accurate scales when
you weigh out merchandise and you
must use full and honest measures.
Yes, always use honest weights
and measures so that you may
enjoy a long life in the land.
The Lord your God is giving you.
All who cheat with dishonest
weights and measures are
detestable to the Lord your God.
Never forget what the Amalekites
did to you as you came from Egypt.
They attacked you when you were
exhausted and weary, and they struck
down those who were straggling behind.
They had no fear of God.
Therefore, when the Lord your God
has given you rest from all your
enemies in the land, he is giving
you as a special possession, you
must destroy the Amalekites and
erase their memory from under heaven.
Never forget this.
When you enter the land, the Lord your God
has given you as a special possession and
you have conquered it and settled there,
put some of the first produce from each
crop, you harvest into a basket and bring
it to the designated place of worship.
The place.
The Lord your God chooses
for his name to be honored.
Go to the priest in charge at that
time and say to him, with this
gift, I acknowledge to the Lord your
God, that I have entered the land.
He swore to our ancestors.
He would give us.
The priest will then take the basket
from your hand and set it before
the altar of the Lord your God.
You must then say in the
presence of the Lord your God.
My ancestor Jacob was a wandering aian
who went to live as a foreigner in Egypt.
His family arrived few in
number, but in Egypt, they
became a large and mighty nation.
When the Egyptians oppressed
and humiliated us by making us
their slaves, we cried out to the
Lord, the God of our ancestors.
He heard our cries and saw our
hardship, toil, and oppression.
So the Lord brought us out of Egypt
with a strong hand and powerful
arm with overwhelming terror and
with miraculous signs and wonders.
He brought us to this place and gave us
this land flowing with milk and honey.
And now, oh Lord, I have brought
you the first portion of the harvest
you have given me from the ground.
Then place the produce before
the Lord your God, and bow to the
ground and worship before him.
Afterward, you may go and
celebrate because of all the
good things the Lord your God has
given to you and your household.
Remember to include the Levites and
the foreigners living among you in
the celebration every third year.
You must offer a special
tithe of your crops.
In this year of the special tithe.
You must give your tithes to the
Levites, foreigners, orphans,
and widows, so that they will
have enough to eat in your towns.
Then you must declare in the
presence of the Lord your God.
I have taken the sacred gift from my
house and have given it to the Levites
foreigners, orphans, and widows.
Just as you commanded me.
I have not violated or
forgotten any of your commands.
I have not eaten any of
it while in mourning.
I have not handled it while I was
ceremonially unclean, and I have
not offered any of it to the dead.
I have obeyed the Lord my God, and
have done everything you commanded me.
Now look down from your holy dwelling
place in heaven and bless your
people, Israel and the land you swore
to our ancestors to give us a land
flowing with milk and honey today.
The Lord your God has commanded you to
obey all these decrees and regulations.
So be careful to obey them wholeheartedly.
You have declared today that the Lord
is your God and you have promised
to walk in his ways and to obey his
decrees, commands and regulations,
and to do everything he tells you.
The Lord has declared today that
you are his people, his own special
treasure, just as he promised, and that
you must obey all his commands, and
if you do, he will set you high above
all the other nations he has made.
Then you will receive
praise, honor, and renno.
You will be a nation that is holy to
the Lord your God, just as he promised.
This concludes today's
immerse reading experience.
Thank you for joining us.
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