Exodus 1

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Deuteronomy 17

- The man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who is ministering to God your God or to the judge must die.

- So simple compared to man’s corrupted power!

- You must remove what is bad from Israel.

- So simple compared to man’s corrupted power!

- All the people will then hear and become afraid, and they will not act presumptuously anymore. “When you enter the land that Jehovah your God is giving you and you have taken possession of it and are living in it, and you say, ‘Let me appoint a king over myself like all the nations around me,’ in that case, you should without fail appoint a king whom God your God chooses. You should appoint a king from among your brothers. You are forbidden to appoint over yourself a foreigner who is not your brother. However, he should not acquire many horses for himself or make the people go back to Egypt in order to obtain more horses, since God told you, ‘You must never go back again by this way.’ Neither should he take many wives for himself, so that his heart may not go astray; nor should he acquire vast amounts of silver and gold for himself. When he takes his seat on the throne of his kingdom, he must write for himself in a book a copy of this Law, taken from the one kept by the Levitical priests. “It is to remain with him, and he must read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear God his God and observe all the words of this Law and these regulations by carrying them out. Thus his heart will not exalt itself above his brothers, and he will not deviate from the commandment, either to the right or to the left, so that he may remain a long time over his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.

- But the Israelites didn’t listen!

- And they did the contrary!

- And they kept doing the contrary!

- God would say one thing and they would do exactly the contrary!

- Find the error!

- How can you call them a chosen people!

- Or maybe you should rewrite the Bible!

- But they day will come and God will put an end to this world!

- And then nobody will be able to oppose God and survive!

- God will not tolerate it anymore!

- No more corrupted power!

- Just God’s power!

- But before people will be more and more afraid because they don’t know the Bible!

- “It is to remain with him, and he must read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear God his God and observe all the words of this Law and these regulations by carrying them out. Thus his heart will not exalt itself above his brothers, and he will not deviate from the commandment, either to the right or to the left, so that he may remain a long time over his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.”
 

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Deuteronomy 18

- The Levitical priests and gthe entire tribe of Levi have no inheritance with Israel!

- In exchange, they receive food from the offerings made to God!

- The Israelites are warned not to copy the detestable practices of the other nations!

- Thus they must not pass their children through the fire!

- They must not employ divination!

- They must not practice magic and look for omens and bind others with a spell and consult a spirit medium or av fortune-teller or anyone who inquires of the dead!

- Does it remind you of something today?

- The end of the chapter is important to remember!

- If a prophet of God presumptuously speaks a word in God’s name God did not command him to speak, he must die!
 

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Deuteronomy 19

- The Israelites are told to set apart three cities so manslayers can flee to them!

- But he must have struck someone unintentionally!

- When the Israelites get a bigger territory, they will add three other cities!

- But if the man killed someone intentionally he must die!

- Two or three witnesses are required in case of error or sin!

- In case of transgression, the two men who have the dispute will stand before God and before the priests and the judges!

- The false witness must be removed so people will be afraid and won’t do bad things!

- Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot!

- Such a big difference from the Christians!

- When we look at history, we understand why!

- But corruption changed everything and keep changing everything for the worst!
 

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Deuteronomy 20

- The Israelites must be courageous when they fight their enemies because Gos is with them!

- Before each fight, the priests must tell the israelites to be courageous and that God will fight for them!

- Then the officers must tell those who are afraid or have a good reason to go back home!

- Then they must appoint chiefs of the armies to lead the people!

- Before fighting against a city, they must offer peace and the people will become forced labor and serve the Israelites!

- During the battle, they must kill all the men but keep the women, the children, the livestock and everything that is in the city!

- But it is only for the cities which are far away from the Israelites!

- But for the cities which God has given to the Israelites, they must not allow any breathing thing to live!

- Why? Because God doesn’t want them to teach the Israelites to follow their detestable practices they do for their gods so they may not sin against God!

- As usual they didn’t obey God and they went after other gods and God punished them continuously and finally rejected them!
 

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Deuteronomy 21

- In case of dispute, the priests, the L evites, should be involved in resolving any dispute involving violence that is in case of death!

- A sacrifice will be made!

- And the elders of the city where the dead body is found will wash their hands over the animal which has been sacrificed and declare that they have not shed blood!

- then bloodshed will not be held against them!

- During wars, women who are been taken captive can be taken as wives!

- The Israelite will become her husband and she will become her wife!

- But if the man is not pleased with her, he must let her go without selling her or mistreating her because he has humiliated her!

- When a man has two wives and he loves one more, if the firstborn is the son of the unloved woman, he must not treat the other son as the firstborn!

- When a son is stubborn and rebellious and is corrected and refuses to listen, the parents should take him to the elders of the city!

- And all the men of the city must stone him to death!

- Because they must remove what is bad from their midst!

- May we remember that for what is coming!

- A man who has been hung on a stake because of his sin must be buried the same day!

- And the Israelites must not defile the land God has given to them as an inheritance!
 

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Deuteronomy 22

- Every Israelite must give back what belongs to his brother!

- A woman must get dress like a woman and a man like a man!

- When an Israelite finds a bird with its young ones or eggs in a nest, he can take the young ones but not the bird!

- It is necessary to make a parapet for the roof of the house you build so that nobody can fall from it and avoid bloodguilt!

- It is necessary to sow the vineyard with one seed so what is produced won’t be forfeited to the sanctuary!

- It is not possible to plow with a bull and a donkey together!

- The Israelites must make tassels on the four corners of their clothings

- If a man takes a woman as a wife and then rejects her accusing her of not being a virgin, he will be disciplined and will have to pay a fine and won’t be able to divorce her!

- But if the woman is not a virgin, she must be stoned to death!

- If a man is found lying down with a married woman, they must both die!

- If a man lies down with a virgin who is engaged to a man, they must both die!

- if the man forced the virgin, the man must die and not the girl!

- If a man rapes a virgin girl, he must give money to the father’s girl and marry the girl and won’t be able to divorce her!

- A man must not take his father’s wife!

- In fact, by all these laws, we can see that the Israelites weren’t a special people!

- They were a normal one and even a bad one!

- When we see how Jacob’s sons act, it is easy to understand it!

- When we think about how people live today, it is not better!

- Man’s tradition vs God’s word!

- And man’s tradition corrupts everything!

- We are so far away from God’s way!

- What a shame!

- We should feel ashamed!

- But it’s not the case!

- May we try to change our way of live when we still have the time!

- Otherwise there won’t be any surprise!
 

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Deuteronomy 23

- No man who is castrated or with his male organ cut off may come into God’s congregation!

- It is the same for an illegitimate son and his descendants!

- It is the same with the Ammonite or Moabite because they oppose Israel!

- They must not hate an Edomite because he is their brother!

- They must not hate an Egyptian because they were foreign residents in Egypt!

- If a man becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he can come back to the camp the next evening after washing himself!

- They must cover their excrements!

- Nothing indecent can stay in their camp which is holy because God walks with them and delivers them!

- They can’t send back a slave to his master!

- No woman or man of Israel must become a temple prostitute!

- Temple prostitutes are something detestable to God!

- The price paid for them must not be brought to the house of God!

- No interest must be charged on money, food or anything!

- In case of a vow to God it must be paid all at once otherwise it will be a sin!

- And they must keep it!

- If they enter their neighbor’s vineyard or field, they can eat grapes to satisfy their appetite or pluck the ripe ears with their hands!
 

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Deuteronomy 24

- A man can divorce his wife by writing a certificate of divorce!

- A kidnapper who mistreats and sells his Israelite brother he has kidnapped must die!

- In case of leprosy they must do according to the Levitical priests’ instructions!

- In case of loan there must be no abuse!

- The security for the loan must be given back!

- A hired worker must not be defrauded and receive his wages in due time!

- Fathers are not responsible for their children’s deeds!

- When harvesting, something must be left for the foreign resident, the fatherless child and the widow!

- For the Israelites must remember they became slaves in Egypt!

Wow! So different from religious and political and business leaders!

- God’s rule is so different from man’s rule!

- And the Israelites asked for a human king!

- What a stupidity and unconsciousness which leads to their rejection by God and the destruction of Jerusalem!

- And it is not better today!

- This human society will finally end with God’s intervention!

- A lot of cleaning will be required!
 

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Deuteronomy 25


- When two men have a dispute, they must present themselves before the judges!

- A bull must not be muzzled when it is threshing out grain!

- If a man dies without having a son, his wife must marry his brother!

- The firstborn will carry on the name of his dead brother!

- If the brother doesn’t want to marry her, she must go to the elders!

- They will speak with the man but he doesn’t listen to them he will be known in consequence!

- If two men fight and the wife of one of them protect her husband and grabs hold of the other man by his private parts, her hand must be amputated!

- They must keep an accurate and honest weight and measure!

- Doing the contrary is detestable to God!

- It is so different from man’s law!

- It is so different from man’s corruption!

- There is only one way!

- But man turns it into a multitude which goes to nowhere!
 

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Deuteronomy 26

  • When Israel enters into the promised land, they must take some of the firstfruits of the ground and put them in a basket and go to the place chosen by Yah.weh to have his name reside!

  • Then they must go to the priest serving and tell him that they have come to the promised land promised by Yah.weh!

  • Then the priest will deposit the basket before the altar of Yah.weh!

  • Then they must declare before Yah.weh that he brought them to the promised land out of Egypt where they were slaves!

  • Then they will bring the firstfruits of the ground given by Yah.weh!

  • Then they must deposit them in front of Yah.weh and rejoice!

  • In the third year, they will give the tenth of the harvest to the levite, the foreign resident, the fatherless child and the widow, and they will eat and say they have respected Yah.weh’s commandments and ask for Yah.weh’s blessing!

  • And Yah.weh and Israel make a covenant so Israel will become Yah.weh’s people and they will observe his commandments!