Atonement for an Unsolved Murder 21 If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was,  We must presume from the word slain that death from natural causes had been ruled out and it was evident… Read More »

Cities of Refuge 1 When the Lord your God has destroyed the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses, 2 then set aside for yourselves three cities in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess. 3 Determine the distances involved… Read More »

Offerings for Priests and Levites 1 The Levitical priests—indeed, the whole tribe of Levi—are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the food offerings presented to the Lord, for that is their inheritance. 2 They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.… Read More »

17 Do not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect or flaw in it, for that would be detestable to him. 2 If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the Lord gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the Lord… Read More »

In this chapter we will read about the communion between God and His People, Israel, and how that communion has been preserved in the nation by three yearly festivals or feasts, with it’s practices and laws of each. These festivals, we have already gone over several times and yet here once again they are repeated.… Read More »

The Year for Canceling Debts 1 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. 2 This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the Lord’s time for canceling debts… Read More »

Clean and Unclean Food 14 You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,  In Lev. 1 and Num. 5:1–4 are the main references to the clean-and-unclean legislation outside of Lev. 11–15. The only ground given for the prohibitions is that Israel… Read More »

Worshiping Other Gods 1 If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, 2 and if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, “Let us follow other gods” (gods you have not known) “and let us worship them,” 3 you must not… Read More »

Moses reminds them of the jealousness of God in this chapter. There is only one true God and he will not tolerate worship to anyone or anything else. It is the first commandment and the second and third commandments are protection for the first. The One Place of Worship  1 These are the decrees and laws… Read More »

Love and Obey the Lord 11 Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always. 2 Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm; 3 the signs he performed and… Read More »