God's Boundaries, Our Bounties

 Apr 8, 2024 (Mon)

💗Read Deuteronomy 23:19-24:9 prayerfully.

Dt 23:19-24:4 [19] Do not charge your brother interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest. [20] You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a brother Israelite, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess. [21] If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to pay it, for the LORD your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin. [22] But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty. [24] If you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket. [25] If you enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to his standing grain. [1] If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, [2] and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, [3] and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, [4] then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the LORD. Do not bring sin upon the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.






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