God in C24: “Going into thy neighbor’s vineyard, thou mayest eat as many grapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with thee.”
This, of course brought back memories of picking strawberries and apples as a kid and eating as many as we paid for.
Can we extrapolate grapes to strawberries and apples?
Can we extrapolate grapes to all the good things, the good sins in life?
Not, we are still in the Old Testament of God’s Laws and Wrath yet to be softened and heart filled with the life of Jesus Christ.
There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel… because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.
There were some common sense advice too. Don’t poop where you will sleep!
Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature… and with the earth that is dug up thou shalt cover that which thou are eased of… and let the camp be holy, and et no uncleanness appear therein, lest he go away from thee.
Some heavy hearted stuff too…
When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it.
What was the last vow you made to God?
If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favor in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
This Law of Moses was repealed in the New Testament, there is no sinless way to be divorced as I am.
When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any public business be enjoined him, but he shall be free at home without fault, that for one year he may rejoice with his wife.
I like this, one step above paternity leave—matrimony leave!
Thou shall not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor, whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates.
Help and needy whether you know them personally or not.
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, not the children for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin.
Amen.
And if they see the offender is worthy of stripes: they shall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be; yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.
When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another; but his brother shall take her, and raise up the seed for his brother…
Moses and the Priests of the race Levi said to all of Israel: Attend and hear, O Israel: This day thou art made the people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt hear his voice, and do the commandments and justices which I command thee.
Moses: These shall stand upon mount Garizim to bless the people, when you are passed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. And over against them shall stand on mount Hebal to curse: Ruben, Gad, and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan and Nephtali.
This confuses me as it excludes the tribes of Ephraim & Manasses, (other half tribe, not son of Joseph).
Back in Numbers C32, land given to Gad, Ruben, and the half tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph?
Includes Gad, Ruben and half tribe of Manasses, the son of Joseph who did not cross the Jordan but inhabited the lands of Jazer and Galaad.
Confused as I am?
The Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the nations that are on the earth. And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail: and thou shalt be always above, and not beneath…
The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of thy body, by which dung is cast out, with the scab and with the itch: so that thou canst not be healed
Actually I just learned that an itchy anal, reportedly the ulcer of Egypt, is a sign of colon cancer.
And thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt fear night and day, neither shalt though trust thy life. In the morning thou shalt say: who will grant me evening? And at evening: Who will grant me morning? For the fearfulness of thy heart…
Day 67: Reading The Bible with a TROML Perspective;
Walk in God’s Ways with Jesus in Our Hearts & The Holy Spirit Within…
Read and inspired by the Old Testament, The Book of Deuteronomy Chapters 23-28
Bible Notes:
This Book is so called Deuteronomy, which means a second law, because it repeats, explains, and expands the Law given on Mount Sinai. It contains three discourses of Moses encouraging the Israelites, who will shortly enter The Promised Land, to observe the Law.
The last four chapters describe the last days and the death of Moses on Mount Nebo in the Land of Moab.
Deuteronomy Chapter 23: Who may not enter the church; Those defiled by dreams shall leave camp; Law of sanitation; Escaped servants; Prostitution forbidden; Usury forbidden; Vows; Law of vineyard and farm.
An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away…
Eunuch—a castrated man, especially one formerly employed by rulers in the Middle East and Asia as a harem guard or palace official.
A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter the church of the Lord until the tenth generation.
If there be among you any man that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp, and shall not return, before he be washed with water in the evening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.
Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature… and with the earth that is dug up thou shalt cover that which thou are eased of… and let the camp be holy, and et no uncleanness appear therein, lest he go away from thee.
Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that I fled to thee… give him no trouble.
There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel… because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Usury—the lending or practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest; Obsolete. interest paid for the use of money.
When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it.
Going into thy neighbor’s vineyard, thou mayest eat as many grapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with thee.
Deuteronomy Chapter 24: Divorce, A husband to remain home the first year; Millstones not to be taken to pledge; Kidnaping; Leprosy; Pledges; Payment of Wages; No one to be punished for another’s sin; Justice; Charity.
If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favor in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any public business be enjoined him, but he shall be free at home without fault, that for one year he may rejoice with his wife.
Thou shall not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor, whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates.
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, not the children for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin.
Deuteronomy Chapter 25: Stripes not to exceed forty; Ox not to be muzzled when treading corn; Raising children for a brother; The immodest woman; Weights and measures; The Amalecities to be destroyed.
And if they see the offender is worthy of stripes: they shall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be; yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.
When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another; but his brother shall take her, and raise up the seed for his brother…
Shall put forth her hand, and take him by secrets, thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity in her regard.
Deuteronomy Chapter 26: Rituals for offering firstfruits; Prayer to accompany tithes; God’s covenant with the people.
When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, in the third year of tithes thou shalt give it to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, that …they may eat within thy gates, and be filled. Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high habitation of heaven…
To be his peculiar people
Deuteronomy Chapter 27: Command to write the law on stones; Exhortation to obedience; The tribes to be divided on two mountains; Levites to pronounce curses for sin.
Moses and the Priests of the race Levi said to all of Israel: Attend and hear, O Israel: This day thou art made the people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt hear his voice, and do the commandments and justices which I command thee.
Moses: These shall stand upon mount Garizim to bless the people, when you are passed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. And over against them shall stand on mount Hebal to curse: Ruben, Gad, and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan and Nephtali.
Note excludes Ephraim & Manasses, (other half tribe, not son of Joseph
Numbers C32: Land given to Gad, Ruben, and the half tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph?
Includes Gad, Ruben and half tribe of Manasses, the son of Joseph who did not cross the Jordan but inhabited the lands of Jazer and Galaad.
Confusion???
Cursed 12 times… some of the Ten Commandments.
Deuteronomy Chapter 28: Blessings for obedience; Curses for disobedience; Frightful affliction of the unfaithful; Captivity and starvation threatened; Ravages of war threatened, Pestilence and slavery threatened.
The Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the nations that are on the earth.
Blessings 8 times… if thou keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways
The Lord will open his excellent treasure, the heaven
And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail: and thou shalt be always above, and not beneath…
But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God… all these curses shall overcome thee this day, and overtake thee… Cursed 5 times…
May the Lord afflict thee with miserable want… and pursue thee till thou perish… and let ashes come down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed…
The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of thy body, by which dung is cast out, with the scab and with the itch: so that thou canst not be healed.
And thou shall be lost as a proverb and a byword to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in.
Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things…
Nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot
And thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt fear night and day, neither shalt though trust thy life. In the morning thou shalt say: who will grant me evening? And at evening: Who will grant me morning? For the fearfulness of thy heart…
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