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Hi GAMErs! 
 
In Deuteronomy we get to see different layers to God’s heart.  Today’s passage, Deuteronomy 24:10-22, lets us in on another big layer to the heart of God.  Let’s go!
 
Deuteronomy 24:10-22 (NIV)
10  When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into his house to get what he is offering as a pledge.
11  Stay outside and let the man to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you.
12  If the man is poor, do not go to sleep with his pledge in your possession.
13  Return his cloak to him by sunset so that he may sleep in it. Then he will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the LORD your God.
14  Do not take advantage of a hired man who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother Israelite or an alien living in one of your towns.
15  Pay him his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and is counting on it. Otherwise he may cry to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
16  Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.

On verses 10-22:  Why does Moses say not to go into the house of someone you’re lending money to in order to get what they are offering as a pledge (v10)?  Why instead wait outside and let the borrower bring the pledge out to you (v11)?  It’s to protect the dignity and honor of the person you’re lending to, so as not to embarrass them unnecessarily in front of their family.

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Today’s passage is Deuteronomy 23:15-25.  Let’s go!

Deuteronomy 23:15-16 (NIV) 
15 If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand him over to his master. 
16 Let him live among you wherever he likes and in whatever town he chooses. Do not oppress him. 

On verses 15-16:  These verses show God’s heart of compassion toward slaves who have run away from an oppressive master.  Similarly, we were all slaves to sin. but God rescued us and became our refuge, not wanting us to return to our previous master who oppressed us.  

Deuteronomy 23:17-18 (NIV) 
17 No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute. 
18 You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute into the house of the LORD your God to pay any vow, because the LORD your God detests them both. 

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Today’s passage is Deuteronomy 22:13-30.  Let’s go!

Deuteronomy 22:13-21 (NIV)
13  If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her
14  and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,”
15  then the girl’s father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate.
16  The girl’s father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her.
17  Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town,
18  and the elders shall take the man and punish him.
19  They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the girl’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
20  If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl’s virginity can be found,
21  she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
 

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Today’s passage is Deuteronomy 21:10-23.  Let’s go!

Deuteronomy 21:10-13 (NIV)
10  When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives,
11  if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.
12  Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails
13  and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

On verses 10-13:  Here Moses tells the Israelites that when they conquer another nation and notice a beautiful woman from that nation, one of the Israelites may take her as his wife.  The woman must first do the things that signify her break from whatever faith she ascribed to before — shaving her head, trimming her nails, changing her clothes and mourning her parents.  After that, an Israelite could marry her.

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Today’s passage is Deuteronomy 20:1-20.  Let’s go!

Deuteronomy 20:1-4 (NIV)
1  When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.
2  When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army.
3  He shall say: “Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be terrified or give way to panic before them.
4  For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.”

On verses 1-4:  In Deuteronomy 20:1-9, Moses prepares the Israelites for war against their enemies. His big message to the Israelite army: do not be afraid, for God is with you (v1-4).

Praise God that, similarly, we have every reason to live life with courage. That’s because God is with us. As Moses says, “do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you” (v1).