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 --> 00:00:04.380 day 100 and 57 00:00:04.711 --> 00:00:08.941 Suppose a man marries a woman, but after sleeping with her, he turns against her 00:00:09.181 --> 00:00:13.711 and publicly accuses her of shameful conduct, saying, when I married this 00:00:13.711 --> 00:00:16.081 woman, I discovered she was not a virgin. 00:00:16.981 --> 00:00:19.561 Then the woman's father and mother must bring the proof of 00:00:19.561 --> 00:00:23.011 her virginity to the elders as they hold court at the town gate. 00:00:23.626 --> 00:00:27.826 Her father must say to them, I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife, 00:00:28.186 --> 00:00:29.746 and now he has turned against her. 00:00:30.376 --> 00:00:34.846 He has accused her of shameful conduct saying, I discovered that your daughter 00:00:34.851 --> 00:00:39.076 was not a virgin, but here is the proof of my daughter's virginity. 00:00:40.066 --> 00:00:42.436 Then they must spread her bedsheet before the elders. 00:00:42.956 --> 00:00:46.096 The elders must then take the man and punish him. 00:00:46.636 --> 00:00:50.956 They must also find him 100 pieces of silver, which he must pay to the woman's 00:00:50.956 --> 00:00:55.636 father because he publicly accused a virgin of Israel of shameful conduct. 00:00:56.476 --> 00:01:00.406 The woman will then remain the man's wife, and he may never divorce her. 00:01:01.306 --> 00:01:05.806 But suppose the man's accusations are true and he can show that she was not a virgin. 00:01:06.586 --> 00:01:10.666 The woman must be taken to the door of her father's home, and there the men 00:01:10.671 --> 00:01:12.886 of the town must stone her to death. 00:01:13.546 --> 00:01:17.476 She has committed a disgraceful crime in Israel by being promiscuous 00:01:17.476 --> 00:01:19.096 while living in her parents' home. 00:01:19.486 --> 00:01:22.936 In this way, you will purge this evil from among you. 00:01:24.766 --> 00:01:29.296 If a man is discovered committing adultery, both he and the woman must die. 00:01:29.956 --> 00:01:32.716 In this way, you will purge Israel of such evil. 00:01:33.826 --> 00:01:37.996 Suppose a man meets a young woman, a virgin who is engaged to be married, 00:01:38.236 --> 00:01:40.096 and he has sexual intercourse with her. 00:01:40.666 --> 00:01:44.086 If this happens within a town, you must take both of them to the gates 00:01:44.086 --> 00:01:46.516 of that town and stone them to death. 00:01:47.266 --> 00:01:49.876 The woman is guilty because she did not scream for help. 00:01:50.446 --> 00:01:53.986 The man must die because he violated another man's wife. 00:01:54.496 --> 00:01:57.526 In this way, you will purge this evil from among you. 00:01:57.906 --> 00:02:02.146 But if the man meets the engaged woman out in the country and he rapes 00:02:02.146 --> 00:02:04.906 her, then only the man must die. 00:02:05.461 --> 00:02:07.021 Do nothing to the young woman. 00:02:07.261 --> 00:02:09.451 She has committed no crime worthy of death. 00:02:10.021 --> 00:02:14.131 She is as innocent as a murder victim since the man raped her 00:02:14.131 --> 00:02:17.941 out in the country, it must be assumed that she screamed, but 00:02:17.941 --> 00:02:19.501 there was no one to rescue her. 00:02:20.521 --> 00:02:23.431 Suppose a man has intercourse with a young woman who is a virgin 00:02:23.701 --> 00:02:25.531 but is not engaged to be married. 00:02:26.251 --> 00:02:30.841 If they're discovered he must pay her father 50 pieces of silver, then he 00:02:30.841 --> 00:02:34.681 must marry the young woman because he violated her and he may never 00:02:34.681 --> 00:02:36.931 divorce her as long as he lives. 00:02:38.041 --> 00:02:42.871 A man must not marry his father's former wife for this would violate his father. 00:02:43.201 --> 00:02:48.751 If a man's testicles are crushed or his penis is cut off, he may not be 00:02:48.751 --> 00:02:50.431 admitted to the assembly of the Lord. 00:02:51.436 --> 00:02:55.606 If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants 00:02:55.606 --> 00:02:59.476 for 10 generations may be admitted to the assembly of the Lord. 00:03:00.346 --> 00:03:06.046 No ammonite or Moabite, or any of their descendants for 10 generations may be 00:03:06.051 --> 00:03:07.846 admitted to the assembly of the Lord. 00:03:08.596 --> 00:03:12.706 These nations did not welcome you with food and water when you came out of Egypt. 00:03:13.306 --> 00:03:19.546 Instead, they hired Baam sand bor from Phor in distant arra ne to curse you. 00:03:20.356 --> 00:03:22.606 But the Lord, your God refused to listen to balam. 00:03:23.446 --> 00:03:27.076 He turned the intended curse into a blessing because the Lord, your 00:03:27.076 --> 00:03:29.956 God loves you as long as you live. 00:03:30.346 --> 00:03:34.996 You must never promote the welfare and prosperity of the Ammonites or Moabites. 00:03:36.046 --> 00:03:40.606 Do not detest the Edomites or the Egyptians because the Edomites are 00:03:40.606 --> 00:03:44.086 your relatives and you lived as foreigners among the Egyptians. 00:03:44.746 --> 00:03:48.196 The third generation of Edomites and Egyptians may 00:03:48.196 --> 00:03:49.936 enter the assembly of the Lord. 00:03:51.436 --> 00:03:54.826 When you go to war against your enemies, be sure to stay away 00:03:54.826 --> 00:03:56.446 from anything that is impure. 00:03:57.286 --> 00:04:02.206 Any man who becomes ceremonially defiled because of a nocturnal emission, must 00:04:02.206 --> 00:04:04.666 leave the camp and stay away all day. 00:04:05.356 --> 00:04:10.036 Toward evening, he must bathe himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp. 00:04:10.816 --> 00:04:14.026 You must have a designated area outside the camp where 00:04:14.026 --> 00:04:15.616 you can go to relieve yourself. 00:04:16.216 --> 00:04:18.796 Each of you must have a spade as part of your equipment 00:04:19.576 --> 00:04:20.986 whenever you relieve yourself. 00:04:21.226 --> 00:04:24.256 Dig a hole with the spade and cover the excrement. 00:04:25.006 --> 00:04:27.376 The camp must be holy for the Lord. 00:04:27.381 --> 00:04:31.636 Your God moves around in your camp to protect you and to defeat your enemies. 00:04:32.266 --> 00:04:36.016 He must not see any shameful thing among you, or he will turn away from you. 00:04:37.351 --> 00:04:40.891 If slaves should escape from their masters and take refuge with you, you 00:04:40.891 --> 00:04:43.051 must not hand them over to their masters. 00:04:43.591 --> 00:04:47.731 Let them live among you in any town they choose and do not oppress them. 00:04:48.571 --> 00:04:53.641 No Israelite whether man or woman may become a temple prostitute. 00:04:53.941 --> 00:04:58.561 When you are bringing in offering to fulfill a vow, you must not bring to the 00:04:58.561 --> 00:05:02.401 house of the Lord your God, any offering from the earnings of a prostitute. 00:05:02.896 --> 00:05:08.356 Whether a man or a woman for both are detestable to the Lord your God, 00:05:09.286 --> 00:05:12.436 do not charge interest on the loans you make to a fellow Israelite. 00:05:12.766 --> 00:05:17.176 Whether you loan money or food or anything else, you may charge 00:05:17.181 --> 00:05:20.866 interest to foreigners, but you may not charge interest to Israelites 00:05:21.376 --> 00:05:24.796 so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do in the land 00:05:24.796 --> 00:05:27.106 you are about to enter and occupy. 00:05:28.246 --> 00:05:32.566 When you make a vow to the Lord your God, be prompt in fulfilling whatever 00:05:32.566 --> 00:05:37.666 you promised him for the Lord your God demands that you promptly fulfill all 00:05:37.666 --> 00:05:40.456 your vows or you will be guilty of sin. 00:05:41.146 --> 00:05:46.186 However, it is not a sin to refrain from making a vow, but once you have 00:05:46.186 --> 00:05:50.506 voluntarily made a vow, be careful to fulfill your promise to the Lord your God. 00:05:51.466 --> 00:05:55.516 When you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but 00:05:55.516 --> 00:05:57.676 you must not carry any away in a basket. 00:05:58.426 --> 00:06:01.636 And when you enter your neighbor's field of grain, you may pluck the 00:06:01.636 --> 00:06:05.686 heads of grain with your hand, but you must not harvest it with a sickle. 00:06:07.246 --> 00:06:10.516 Suppose a man marries a woman, but she does not please him. 00:06:11.116 --> 00:06:13.966 Having discovered something wrong with her, he writes a document 00:06:13.966 --> 00:06:17.716 of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house. 00:06:18.391 --> 00:06:21.541 When she leaves his house, she's free to marry another man. 00:06:22.351 --> 00:06:25.861 But if the second husband also turns against her, writes a document of 00:06:25.866 --> 00:06:31.141 divorce, hands it to her and sends her away, or if he dies, the first 00:06:31.141 --> 00:06:33.091 husband may not marry her again. 00:06:33.451 --> 00:06:37.621 For she has been defiled, that would be detestable to the Lord. 00:06:38.341 --> 00:06:40.231 You must not bring guilt upon the land. 00:06:40.231 --> 00:06:43.441 The Lord your God is giving you as a special possession. 00:06:44.521 --> 00:06:48.391 If a newly married man must not be drafted into the army or be given 00:06:48.391 --> 00:06:53.311 any other official responsibilities, he must be free to spend one year at 00:06:53.316 --> 00:06:55.741 home bringing happiness to the wife. 00:06:55.741 --> 00:06:56.491 He is married. 00:06:57.391 --> 00:07:01.561 It is wrong to take a set of millstones or even just the upper millstone. 00:07:01.861 --> 00:07:05.521 A security for a loan for the owner uses it to make a living. 00:07:06.571 --> 00:07:10.261 If anyone kidnaps a fellow Israelite and treats him as a slave or 00:07:10.266 --> 00:07:12.841 sells him, the kidnapper must die. 00:07:13.486 --> 00:07:18.106 In this way, you will purge the evil from among you in all cases 00:07:18.106 --> 00:07:19.966 involving serious skin diseases. 00:07:20.326 --> 00:07:23.356 Be careful to follow the instructions of the Levitical priests. 00:07:23.866 --> 00:07:25.816 Obey all the commands I have given them. 00:07:26.356 --> 00:07:30.766 Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam as you were coming from Egypt. 00:07:31.086 --> 00:07:35.626 If you lent anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to pick up 00:07:35.626 --> 00:07:37.606 the item He is giving as security. 00:07:38.296 --> 00:07:41.296 You must wait outside while he goes in and brings it out to you. 00:07:42.106 --> 00:07:46.006 If your neighbor is poor and gives you his cloak, a security for loan, 00:07:46.486 --> 00:07:48.376 do not keep the cloak overnight. 00:07:49.186 --> 00:07:52.726 Return the cloak to its owner by sunset so he can stay warm 00:07:52.726 --> 00:07:53.926 through the night and bless you. 00:07:54.376 --> 00:07:56.956 And the Lord your God will count you as righteous. 00:07:58.276 --> 00:08:02.266 Never take advantage of poor and destitute laborers, whether 00:08:02.266 --> 00:08:05.596 they are fellow Israelites or foreigners living in your towns. 00:08:06.286 --> 00:08:10.186 You must pay them their wages each day before sunset because they 00:08:10.191 --> 00:08:12.106 are poor and are counting on it. 00:08:12.886 --> 00:08:16.606 If you don't, they might cry out to the Lord against you and it 00:08:16.606 --> 00:08:17.776 would be counted against you. 00:08:17.776 --> 00:08:23.386 As sin, parents must not be put to death for the sins of their children, nor 00:08:23.386 --> 00:08:25.306 children for the sins of their parents. 00:08:26.026 --> 00:08:30.046 Those deserving to die must be put to death for their own crimes. 00:08:30.946 --> 00:08:35.176 True justice must be given to foreigners, living among you and to orphans. 00:08:35.641 --> 00:08:38.731 And you must never accept a widow's garment, a security for her debt. 00:08:39.631 --> 00:08:43.291 Always remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your 00:08:43.291 --> 00:08:45.361 God redeemed you from your slavery. 00:08:45.871 --> 00:08:50.101 That is why I have given you this command when you are harvesting 00:08:50.106 --> 00:08:53.581 your crops and forget to bring in a bundle of grain from your field. 00:08:53.971 --> 00:08:55.231 Don't go back to get it. 00:08:55.861 --> 00:08:59.281 Leave it for the foreigners, orphans, and widows. 00:08:59.971 --> 00:09:02.911 Then the Lord your God will bless you and all you do. 00:09:03.841 --> 00:09:08.221 When you beat the olives from your olive trees, don't go over the bows twice. 00:09:08.761 --> 00:09:13.051 Leave the remaining olives for the foreigners, orphans, and widows when 00:09:13.051 --> 00:09:14.911 you gather the grapes in your vineyard. 00:09:15.151 --> 00:09:17.641 Don't glean the vines after they are picked. 00:09:18.241 --> 00:09:21.841 Leave the remaining grapes for the foreigners, orphans, and widows. 00:09:22.741 --> 00:09:26.341 Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and that is 00:09:26.341 --> 00:09:28.201 why I am giving you this command. 00:09:29.536 --> 00:09:33.406 Suppose two people take a dispute to court, and the judges declare that 00:09:33.406 --> 00:09:35.476 one is right and the other is wrong. 00:09:36.286 --> 00:09:40.336 If the person in the wrong is sentenced to be flogged, the judge 00:09:40.336 --> 00:09:44.266 must command him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number 00:09:44.271 --> 00:09:45.916 of lashes appropriate to the crime. 00:09:46.546 --> 00:09:48.856 But never give more than 40 lashes. 00:09:49.396 --> 00:09:53.146 More than 40 lashes would publicly humiliate your neighbor. 00:09:54.256 --> 00:09:57.796 You must not muzzle an ox to keep it from eating as it treads out the grain. 00:09:58.936 --> 00:10:02.776 If two brothers are living together on the same property and one of them dies 00:10:02.776 --> 00:10:07.006 without a son, his widow may not be married to anyone from outside the family. 00:10:07.666 --> 00:10:11.746 Instead, her husband's brother should marry her and have intercourse with her 00:10:11.751 --> 00:10:13.546 to fulfill the duties of a brother-in-law. 00:10:14.446 --> 00:10:17.656 The first son she bears to him will be considered the son of the 00:10:17.656 --> 00:10:21.616 dead brother, so that his name will not be forgotten in Israel. 00:10:22.816 --> 00:10:26.146 But if the man refuses to marry his brother's widow, she must 00:10:26.146 --> 00:10:29.506 go to the town gate and say to the elders, assembled there. 00:10:30.346 --> 00:10:33.826 My husband's brother refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel. 00:10:34.216 --> 00:10:37.936 He refuses to fulfill the duties of a brother-in-law by marrying me. 00:10:38.926 --> 00:10:43.786 The elders of the town will then summon him and talk with him if he still refuses 00:10:43.791 --> 00:10:46.036 and says, I don't want to marry her. 00:10:46.786 --> 00:10:50.866 The widow must walk over to him in the presence of the elders, pull his sandal 00:10:50.866 --> 00:10:53.176 from his foot and spit in his face. 00:10:53.866 --> 00:10:57.916 Then she must declare, this is what happens to a man who refuses 00:10:57.916 --> 00:11:02.236 to provide his brother with children ever afterward in Israel. 00:11:02.386 --> 00:11:05.326 His family will be referred to as the family of the man 00:11:05.326 --> 00:11:06.826 whose sandal was pulled off. 00:11:08.521 --> 00:11:13.141 If two Israelite men get into a fight and the wife of one tries to rescue her 00:11:13.141 --> 00:11:17.671 husband by grabbing the testicles of the other man, you must cut off her hand. 00:11:18.211 --> 00:11:19.381 Show her no pity. 00:11:20.491 --> 00:11:24.151 You must use accurate scales when you weigh out merchandise and you 00:11:24.151 --> 00:11:26.371 must use full and honest measures. 00:11:27.211 --> 00:11:30.451 Yes, always use honest weights and measures so that you may 00:11:30.451 --> 00:11:32.221 enjoy a long life in the land. 00:11:32.221 --> 00:11:33.601 The Lord your God is giving you. 00:11:34.111 --> 00:11:37.021 All who cheat with dishonest weights and measures are 00:11:37.021 --> 00:11:39.031 detestable to the Lord your God. 00:11:40.231 --> 00:11:43.381 Never forget what the Amalekites did to you as you came from Egypt. 00:11:44.011 --> 00:11:47.911 They attacked you when you were exhausted and weary, and they struck 00:11:47.911 --> 00:11:49.891 down those who were straggling behind. 00:11:50.341 --> 00:11:51.841 They had no fear of God. 00:11:52.621 --> 00:11:55.951 Therefore, when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your 00:11:55.951 --> 00:11:59.341 enemies in the land, he is giving you as a special possession, you 00:11:59.341 --> 00:12:03.751 must destroy the Amalekites and erase their memory from under heaven. 00:12:04.561 --> 00:12:06.151 Never forget this. 00:12:08.071 --> 00:12:12.511 When you enter the land, the Lord your God has given you as a special possession and 00:12:12.511 --> 00:12:17.041 you have conquered it and settled there, put some of the first produce from each 00:12:17.041 --> 00:12:21.361 crop, you harvest into a basket and bring it to the designated place of worship. 00:12:21.961 --> 00:12:22.411 The place. 00:12:22.411 --> 00:12:25.171 The Lord your God chooses for his name to be honored. 00:12:26.071 --> 00:12:30.211 Go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, with this 00:12:30.211 --> 00:12:34.291 gift, I acknowledge to the Lord your God, that I have entered the land. 00:12:34.296 --> 00:12:35.701 He swore to our ancestors. 00:12:35.701 --> 00:12:36.481 He would give us. 00:12:37.231 --> 00:12:40.441 The priest will then take the basket from your hand and set it before 00:12:40.441 --> 00:12:42.271 the altar of the Lord your God. 00:12:43.141 --> 00:12:45.691 You must then say in the presence of the Lord your God. 00:12:46.351 --> 00:12:51.721 My ancestor Jacob was a wandering aian who went to live as a foreigner in Egypt. 00:12:52.381 --> 00:12:56.011 His family arrived few in number, but in Egypt, they 00:12:56.011 --> 00:12:57.871 became a large and mighty nation. 00:12:58.561 --> 00:13:02.221 When the Egyptians oppressed and humiliated us by making us 00:13:02.221 --> 00:13:06.901 their slaves, we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors. 00:13:07.351 --> 00:13:12.121 He heard our cries and saw our hardship, toil, and oppression. 00:13:12.916 --> 00:13:16.576 So the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and powerful 00:13:16.576 --> 00:13:21.736 arm with overwhelming terror and with miraculous signs and wonders. 00:13:22.456 --> 00:13:27.136 He brought us to this place and gave us this land flowing with milk and honey. 00:13:27.796 --> 00:13:32.146 And now, oh Lord, I have brought you the first portion of the harvest 00:13:32.146 --> 00:13:33.676 you have given me from the ground. 00:13:34.546 --> 00:13:38.266 Then place the produce before the Lord your God, and bow to the 00:13:38.266 --> 00:13:39.886 ground and worship before him. 00:13:40.501 --> 00:13:43.441 Afterward, you may go and celebrate because of all the 00:13:43.441 --> 00:13:47.281 good things the Lord your God has given to you and your household. 00:13:47.941 --> 00:13:51.721 Remember to include the Levites and the foreigners living among you in 00:13:51.721 --> 00:13:54.481 the celebration every third year. 00:13:54.751 --> 00:13:57.331 You must offer a special tithe of your crops. 00:13:58.081 --> 00:13:59.641 In this year of the special tithe. 00:14:00.031 --> 00:14:04.201 You must give your tithes to the Levites, foreigners, orphans, 00:14:04.201 --> 00:14:08.041 and widows, so that they will have enough to eat in your towns. 00:14:09.121 --> 00:14:12.391 Then you must declare in the presence of the Lord your God. 00:14:13.021 --> 00:14:17.161 I have taken the sacred gift from my house and have given it to the Levites 00:14:17.341 --> 00:14:19.891 foreigners, orphans, and widows. 00:14:20.311 --> 00:14:21.721 Just as you commanded me. 00:14:22.471 --> 00:14:26.191 I have not violated or forgotten any of your commands. 00:14:26.881 --> 00:14:29.161 I have not eaten any of it while in mourning. 00:14:29.881 --> 00:14:34.021 I have not handled it while I was ceremonially unclean, and I have 00:14:34.021 --> 00:14:35.761 not offered any of it to the dead. 00:14:36.511 --> 00:14:40.891 I have obeyed the Lord my God, and have done everything you commanded me. 00:14:41.821 --> 00:14:46.111 Now look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your 00:14:46.111 --> 00:14:51.031 people, Israel and the land you swore to our ancestors to give us a land 00:14:51.031 --> 00:14:55.411 flowing with milk and honey today. 00:14:55.501 --> 00:14:59.671 The Lord your God has commanded you to obey all these decrees and regulations. 00:15:00.211 --> 00:15:02.401 So be careful to obey them wholeheartedly. 00:15:03.166 --> 00:15:08.416 You have declared today that the Lord is your God and you have promised 00:15:08.416 --> 00:15:13.426 to walk in his ways and to obey his decrees, commands and regulations, 00:15:13.786 --> 00:15:15.586 and to do everything he tells you. 00:15:16.336 --> 00:15:20.476 The Lord has declared today that you are his people, his own special 00:15:20.476 --> 00:15:25.966 treasure, just as he promised, and that you must obey all his commands, and 00:15:25.966 --> 00:15:30.136 if you do, he will set you high above all the other nations he has made. 00:15:30.706 --> 00:15:33.586 Then you will receive praise, honor, and renno. 00:15:34.516 --> 00:15:39.286 You will be a nation that is holy to the Lord your God, just as he promised. 00:15:40.966 --> 00:15:43.846 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:15:43.966 --> 00:15:45.166 Thank you for joining us. 00:15:45.226 --> 00:15:45.256 I.