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Bible Reading for March 06
Deuteronomy 20
[1] When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and
chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy
God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. [2] And it
shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall
approach and speak unto the people, [3] And shall say unto them, Hear, O
Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your
hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of
them; [4] For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you
against your enemies, to save you.
[5] And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there
that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return
to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. [6] And
what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let
him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another
man eat of it.
[7] And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her?
let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another
man take her.
[8] And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say,
What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto
his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart. [9] And it
shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that
they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people. [10] When thou
comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
[11] And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee,
then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be
tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. [12] And if it will make no
peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
[13] And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt
smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: [14] But the women, and
the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the
spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of
thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
[15] Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee,
which are not of the cities of these nations. [16] But of the cities of these
people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt
save alive nothing that breatheth: [17] But thou shalt utterly destroy them;
namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites,
the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: [18]
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have
done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God. [19] When
thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it,
thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for
thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the
field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: [20] Only the trees which
thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them
down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with
thee, until it be subdued. Deuteronomy 21
[1] If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to
possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: [2]
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto
the cities which are round about him that is slain: [3] And it shall be, that
the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall
take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in
the yoke; [4] And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a
rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the
heifer's neck there in the valley:
[5] And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy
God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD;
and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried: [6] And
all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash
their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: [7] And they shall
answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen
it.
[8] Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and
lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall
be forgiven them.
[9] So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when
thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. [10] When thou
goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered
them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, [11] And seest among
the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest
have her to thy wife; [12] Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and
she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
[13] And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall
remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and
after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy
wife.
[14] And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her
go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt
not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her. [15] If a man have
two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children,
both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was
hated:
[16] Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath,
that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the
hated, which is indeed the firstborn: [17] But he shall acknowledge the son of
the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he
hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is
his. [18] If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the
voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have
chastened him, will not hearken unto them: [19] Then shall his father and his
mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and
unto the gate of his place; [20] And they shall say unto the elders of his
city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he
is a glutton, and a drunkard.
[21] And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so
shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
[22] And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to
death, and thou hang him on a tree: [23] His body shall not remain all night
upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is
hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 22
[1] Thou shalt not see the brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide
thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.
[2] And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then
thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy
brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. [3] In like
manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and
with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found,
shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself. [4] Thou shalt not see
thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them:
thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. [5] The woman shall not wear
that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's
garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
[6] If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on
the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the
young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: [7] But
thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may
be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days. [8] When thou
buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that
thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
[9] Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy
seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. [10]
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. [11] Thou shalt not wear a
garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
[12] Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture,
wherewith thou coverest thyself.
[13] If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, [14] And give
occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say,
I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
[15] Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth
the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:
[16] And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter
unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; [17] And, lo, he hath given
occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and
yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the
cloth before the elders of the city. [18] And the elders of that city shall
take that man and chastise him; [19] And they shall amerce him in an hundred
shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he
hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his
wife; he may not put her away all his days.
[20] But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for
the damsel:
[21] Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house,
and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she
hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so
shalt thou put evil away from among you. [22] If a man be found lying with a
woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man
that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from
Israel. [23] If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a
man find her in the city, and lie with her; [24] Then ye shall bring them both
out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they
die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man,
because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from
among you. [25] But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man
force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
[26] But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin
worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth
him, even so is this matter: [27] For he found her in the field, and the
betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
[28] If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay
hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; [29] Then the man that lay
with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she
shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all
his days. [30] A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his
father's skirt.
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