Finding Religion in Everyday Life

 Apr 10, 2024 (Wed)

💗Read Deuteronomy 25:1-19 prayerfylly.

Dt 25:1-19 [NIV] [1] When men have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty. [2] If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and have him flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime deserves, [3] but he must not give him more than forty lashes. If he is flogged more than that, your brother will be degraded in your eyes. 

[4] Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain. 

[5] If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband's brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her. [6] The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel... 

[13] Do not have two differing weights in your bag--one heavy, one light. [14] Do not have two differing measures in your house--one large, one small. [15] You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. [16] For the LORD your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly. 

[17] Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. [18] When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and cut off all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God. [19] When the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!







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