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Reading Deut 22 “You shall not watch the ox of your neighbor or his sheep or goat straying and ignore them; certainly you shall return them to your neighbor. 2 And if your countryman is not near you or you do not know ?who he is?, then you shall bring it ?to your household?, and it shall be with you ?until your countryman seeks after it?, and you shall return it to him…
This Daily Devotion covers the first five books of the Bible, Genesis through Deuteronomy also called the Books of Moses or the Pentateuch, in a period of one year in a Monday through Friday format, the Psalms and order of devotion follow those presented in The Treasury of Daily Prayer from Concordia Publishing House.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy!
In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!
Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan,
and he hears my voice.
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you;
He will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 106:1-5
1 Praise the LORD!
Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever!
2 Who can utter the mighty deeds of the LORD,
or declare all his praise?
3 Blessed are they who observe justice,
who do righteousness at all times!
4 Remember me, O LORD,
when you show favor to your people;
help me when you save them,
5 that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones,
that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,
that I may glory with your inheritance.
Reading Deut 22
22 “You shall not watch the ox of your neighbor or his sheep or goat straying and ignore them; certainly you shall return them to your neighbor. 2 And if your countryman is not near you or you do not know ?who he is?, then you shall bring it ?to your household?, and it shall be with you ?until your countryman seeks after it?, and you shall return it to him. 3 And thus also you shall do regarding his donkey, and thus you shall do concerning his garment, and so you shall do with respect to all of the lost property of your countryman that is lost from him and you find it; you are not allowed to withhold help.
4 “You shall not see the donkey of your neighbor or his ox fallen on the road and you ignore them; certainly you must help them get up along with him.
5 “The apparel of a man shall not be put on a woman, and a man shall not wear the clothing of a woman, because everyone who does these things is detestable to Yahweh your God.
6 “If a bird’s nest is found ?before you? on the road in any tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs, and the mother is lying down on the chicks or the eggs, you shall not take the mother along with the young; 7 you shall certainly let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourselves; do this ?so that it may go well? for you and ?you may live long in the land?.
8 “When you build a new house then you shall make a parapet wall for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house ?if anyone should fall from it?.
9 “You shall not sow your vineyard with differing kinds of seed, so that you shall not forfeit ?the whole harvest?, both the seed that you sowed and the yield of the vineyard.
10 “You shall not plow with an ox and with a donkey yoked together.
11 “You shall not wear woven material made of wool and linen mixed together.
12 “You shall make tassels for yourselves on the four corners of your clothing with which you cover yourself.
13 “If a man takes a woman and ?he has sex with her?, but he then ?dislikes her?, 14 and ?he accuses her falsely?, and ?he defames her?, and he says ‘This woman I took and I lay with her and ?I discovered that she was not a virgin?,’ 15 then in defense the father of the young woman shall take, along with her mother, and together they must bring out the evidence of the virginity of the young woman to display it to the elders of the city ?at the city gate?. 16 And then the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he now ?dislikes? her, 17 and now look ?he has accused her falsely?, saying, “I did not find ?your daughter a virgin?,” but here is evidence of the virginity of my daughter’; and they shall spread the cloth out ?before? the elders of the city. 18 Then the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him. 19 Then they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and they shall give them to the father of the young woman, for ?he defamed an Israelite young woman?, and ?she shall become his wife?; he will not be allowed ?to divorce her? all his days.
20 “But if ?this charge? was true, ?and the signs of virginity were not found? for the young woman, 21 and then they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel ?by playing the harlot? in the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.
22 “If a man is found lying ?with a married woman?, then they shall both die; ?both of them?, the man who lay with the woman and the woman also, so you shall purge the evil from Israel.
23 “If it happens that a young woman, a virgin, is engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the town and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring out ?both of them? to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they shall die, the young woman because she did not cry out in the town, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.
25 “But if the man finds the young engaged woman in the field and the man overpowers her and ?he has sex with her?, then the man only must die who lay with her. 26 But you shall not do anything to the young woman, for there is not reckoned against the young woman ?a sin deserving death?; ?it is similar to when? a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, ?a fellow human being?, just so is this ?case?, 27 for he found her in the field, the engaged young woman cried out, but there was no rescuer ?to help her?.
28 “If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, and he seizes her and ?he has sex with her? and they are caught, 29 then ?the man who lay with her? shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become ?his wife? ?because? he violated her, and he is not allowed to divorce her ?during his lifetime?. 30 A man may not take the wife of his father, and so ?he may not dishonor his father?.
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Lord God, heavenly Father, through the prophet Ezekiel, You continued the prophetic pattern of teaching Your people the true faith and demonstrating through miracles Your presence in creation to heal it of its brokenness, Grant that Your Church may see in Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the final end-times prophet whose teaching and miracles continue in Your Church through the healing medicine of the Gospel and the Sacraments through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Concluding Prayer
Heavenly Father, send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts to direct and rule us according to Your will, to comfort us in all our afflictions, to defend us from all error, and to lead us into all truth; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
