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Reading Deut 25 “When a legal dispute ?takes place? between men and they come near to the court, and the judges judge with respect to them, then they shall declare the righteous to be in the right and they shall condemn the wicked, 2 then it will happen if the guilty one?deserves beating…
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 69:30-35
30 I will praise the name of God with a song;
I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 This will please the LORD
more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
32 When the humble see it they will be glad;
you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
33 For the LORD hears the needy
and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.
34 Let heaven and earth praise him,
the seas and everything that moves in them.
35 For God will save Zion
and build up the cities of Judah,
and people shall dwell there and possess it;
Reading Deut 25
25 “When a legal dispute ?takes place? between men and they come near to the court, and the judges judge with respect to them, then they shall declare the righteous to be in the right and they shall condemn the wicked, 2 then it will happen if the guilty one ?deserves beating?, then the judge shall make him lie, and he shall beat him ?before him?, ?according to? ?the prescribed number of lashes proportionate to the offense?. 3 He may beat him with forty lashes, and he shall not do more than these, so that he will not beat more in addition to these many blows, and your countryman would be degraded before your eyes.
4 “You shall not muzzle an ox ?when he is threshing?.
5 “When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become the wife of a ?man of another family?; her brother-in-law ?shall have sex with her?, and he shall take her ?to himself? as a wife, and he shall perform his duty as a brother-in-law with respect to her. 6 And then the firstborn that she bears ?shall represent his dead brother?, so that his name is not blotted out from Israel. 7 But if the man does not want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and she shall say, ‘My brother-in-law refused ?to perpetuate his brother’s name? in Israel, for he is not willing ?to marry me?.’ 8 Then the elders of his town shall summon him and speak to him, and if he persists and says, ‘?I do not desire to? marry her’ 9 then his sister-in-law shall go near him before the eyes of the elders, and she shall pull off his sandal from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall ?declare? and she shall say, ‘This is how it is done to the man who does not build the house of his brother.’ 10 And his ?family? shall be called in Israel, ‘The house where the sandal was pulled off.’
11 “If a man and his brother fight each other and the wife of the one man comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of his attacker and she stretches out her hand and she seizes his genitals, 12 then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not take pity.
13 “There shall not be ?for your use? in your bag ?two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one?. 14 There shall not be in your house ?for your use? ?two kinds of measures?. 15 Rather a full and honest weight shall be ?for your use?; there shall be for you a full and honest ?measure?, so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you may be long. 16 For detestable to Yahweh your God is everyone who is doing such things, everyone who is acting dishonestly.
17 “Remember what Amalek did to you on the journey when you went out from Egypt, 18 that he met you on the journey and attacked you, all those lagging behind you and when you were weary and worn out, and he did not fear God. 19 ?And when? Yahweh your God gives rest to you from all your enemies from around about you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance to take possession of it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; you shall not forget!”
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Lord Jesus, You promised that when we are dragged before kings and governors for the sake of Your name, You will give us a mouth of wisdom to bear witness to Your saving grace. Give us courage in these gray and latter days to proclaim the Gospel, even in the face of those who do not accept our testimony of You; for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God now and forever.
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.
