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    First off I want to wish everybody a good time with your families during these holiday times. And to thank everybody that has been participating in this thread.

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    And now on to Deuteronomy chapter 20.
    [1] When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

    [2] And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

    [3] And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

    [4] For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

    [5] And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

    [6] And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

    [7] And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

    [8] And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.

    [9] And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

    [10] When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

    [11] And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

    [12] And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

    [13] And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

    [14] But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

    [15] Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

    [16] But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

    [17] But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

    [18] That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

    [19] When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

    [20] Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.

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    And the question for Deuteronomy chapter 20.
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    Deuteronomy chapter 20.
    [1] When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

    [2] And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

    [3] And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

    [4] For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

    [5] And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

    [6] And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

    [7] And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

    [8] And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.

    [9] And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

    [10] When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

    [11] And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

    [12] And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

    [13] And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

    [14] But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

    [15] Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

    [16] But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

    [17] But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

    [18] That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

    [19] When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

    [20] Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.

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    And the question for Deuteronomy chapter 20 why were the Israelites told not to be afraid when they went out to battle Deuteronomy-20-4-KJV-For-the-LORD-your-God-is-he-that-goeth-with-you--I05020004-L02.jpg
     
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    Deuteronomy chapter 21
    [1] If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:

    [2] Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

    [3] And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;

    [4] And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:

    [5] And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:

    [6] And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

    [7] And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

    [8] Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

    [9] So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

    [10] When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

    [11] And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

    [12] Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

    [13] And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

    [14] And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

    [15] If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

    [16] Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

    [17] But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

    [18] If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

    [19] Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

    [20] And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

    [21] And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

    [22] And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

    [23] His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

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    And the question for Deuteronomy chapter 21 is.
    What Was TO HAPPEN If A MAN WAS DISCOVERED KILLED?
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    Deuteronomy chapter 22
    [1] Thou shalt not see the brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

    [2] And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

    [3] In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

    [4] Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

    [5] The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

    [6] If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

    [7] But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

    [8] When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.

    [9] Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

    [10] Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

    [11] Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

    [12] Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

    [13] If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

    [14] And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

    [15] Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:

    [16] And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

    [17] And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

    [18] And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

    [19] And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

    [20] But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:

    [21] Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

    [22] If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

    [23] If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

    [24] Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

    [25] But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:

    [26] But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:

    [27] For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

    [28] If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

    [29] Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

    [30] A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

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    Deuteronomy chapter 23
    [1] He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

    [2] A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

    [3] An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:

    [4] Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

    [5] Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

    [6] Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

    [7] Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

    [8] The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

    [9] When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.

    [10] If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

    [11] But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.

    [12] Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

    [13] And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:

    [14] For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

    [15] Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

    [16] He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

    [17] There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

    [18] Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

    [19] Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

    [20] Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

    [21] When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

    [22] But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

    [23] That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

    [24] When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

    [25] When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.

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    Deuteronomy chapter 24
    [1] When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    [2] And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

    [3] And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

    [4] Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

    [5] When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

    [6] No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

    [7] If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

    [8] Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

    [9] Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.

    [10] When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

    [11] Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

    [12] And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

    [13] In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

    [14] Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

    [15] At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

    [16] The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

    [17] Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

    [18] But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

    [19] When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

    [20] When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

    [21] When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

    [22] And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

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    Deuteronomy chapter 25
    [1] If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

    [2] And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

    [3] Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

    [4] Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

    [5] If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

    [6] And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

    [7] And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.

    [8] Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;

    [9] Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.

    [10] And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

    [11] When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

    [12] Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

    [13] Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

    [14] Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

    [15] But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

    [16] For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

    [17] Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

    [18] How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

    [19] Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
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    Deuteronomy chapter 25 is it important to have a properly calibrated set of measures?
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    It reminds me of the scripture that says something along the lines of "Jehovah hates a cheating set of scales." I can't remember where that is off the top of my head, so I'll have to look it up.
     
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    A cheating pair of scales is something detestable to Jehovah, but a complete stone-weight is a pleasure to him. —Proverbs 11:1 New World Translation

    Another rendering:

    A false balance and unrighteous dealings are extremely offensive and shamefully sinful to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight. [Leviticus 19:35, 36; Proverbs 16:11] —Proverbs 11:1 Amplified Bible

    Darby's rendering minces no words:

    A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just weight is his will. —Proverbs 11:1 1889 Darby Bible​

    ...which goes to intent, which is really, I believe, what is being addressed here. Intent to cheat or deal falsely with someone else when we're commanded to love another and to love our Father and Creator, Jehovah God— with all our heart, which rules out cheaters and, really, thieves for taking something that isn't theirs to take when our Father provided the Lamb to purchase us back from the fate our first parents, Adam and Eve, condemned us to by taking something that was not theirs to have. And Cain afterwards masterfully used deception to lure his own brother to Abel's doom, bringing manslaughter into the mix.

    John was inspired to write in the closing words of The Revelation of Jesus Christ:

    Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates. But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. —Revelation 22:15 Berean Study Bible

    Doh! I guess I went on for a while there, LOL!

    And you're right, @wallflower — that scripture popped in my head, too, when I read @jehovahisgod 's reference to the scales discussed there in Deuteronomy 25. It's a scripture that has always stuck with me, in fact, and it's been a principle for me ever since, too, including in my business dealings when I would do in-home computer repairs and the person would be shocked at how low my rates were because I have no interest in profiting from others. Just what I need to meet my ends and earn the pay fairly and honestly, you know?

    Jesus says it best:

    Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” —Matthew 22:37-40 Berean Study Bible

    Dishonest scales do not meet the job description written here in Matthew.

    Submitted for perusal and consideration,
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    Hi Timothy

    Yes, thank you, that's the one.....Proverbs 11:1.

    Many years ago, when I worked at a previous job, a staff member would regularly check to see if everyone at the office had enough stationery. I ordered only what I needed to do the job. So sometimes, I didn't need any and would say so. The staff member often replied: "But what do you WANT, wallflower?" I repeated my reply. The staff member seemed to be surprised by this response.


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    Deuteronomy chapter 26
    [1] And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;

    [2] That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.

    [3] And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.

    [4] And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.

    [5] And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

    [6] And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

    [7] And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

    [8] And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

    [9] And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

    [10] And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:

    [11] And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

    [12] When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

    [13] Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

    [14] I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

    [15] Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

    [16] This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

    [17] Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:

    [18] And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;

    [19] And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.

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    And the question for Deuteronomy chapter 26. Why do we obey Jehovah's covenants?
    Did something good happen if we do?

    By the way I hope that all of you really old people remember the Tuesday night book study of the '60s.
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