SCRIPTURE: DEUTERONOMY 11
BIBLE VERSES:
“ A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.” (Deuteronomy 22:5)
“When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.” (Deuteronomy 22:8)
“Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled. Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together. Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.” (Deuteronomy 22:9-11)
VARIOUS LAWS: (vs. 1-12)
- If you see your brother’s ox, sheep, donkey, straying or fallen, do not ignore it. Take it home with you and keep it until the brother comes to look for it. Return everything you found. (vs. 1-4)
- A woman should not wear men’s clothing nor a man wearing women’s clothing. (v. 5)
- I f you come across a bird’s nest beside the road in a tree or on the ground, and the other is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young. You may take the young or eggs setting by a bird’s net. But be sure to let the mother go. (v. 6-7)
- When building your hours, You should make a parapet around your roof to avoid the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof. (v. 8)
- Do not plan two kinds of seed in your vineyard or you my defiled the fruit of the vineyard. (v. 9)
- Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together. (v. 10)
- Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. (v. 11)
- Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear. (v. 12)
MARRIAGE VIOLATIONS (v.s 13-30)
- If a man marries a wife and complain of her not being a virgin, the girl’s father and mother shall bring proof to the town elders that she was a virgin. If she was a virgin, her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town and the elders hall take the man and punish him with a fine of 100 shekels of silver. She shall remain as his wife and divorce was not allowed. (vs. 13-19)
- However, if no proof of the girl’s virginity is found, the girl must be stoned to death at the door of her father’s house because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous. (vs. 20-21)
- If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her,both of them must be stoned to death because the woman did not scream and the man violated another man’s wife. (vs.23-24)
- If out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. (v. 255)
- If a man meets a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her, and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl and he can never divorce her as long as he lives. (v. 28-29)
- A man is not to marry his father’s wife. He must not dishonor his father’s bed. (v. 30)
THOUGHTS:
The world’s view is “Finder’s keepers, losers weepers”. But God wanted the Hebrew to care for and return ls=ost animals as possessions to their rightful owners to keep them from being envious and greedy.
God made man uniquely male and female. He does not want people to use clothing style to act our a different sex role.
Different crops must not be planted side by side because the stronger and taller will block the sunlight and take most of the vital nutrients so that the other one will not survive.
God is stric on law about secual sisns because it has the power to disrupt and destroy the church. Sexual sins are powerful destroyer of relationship because it tears down respect, trust and credibility that are so essential for solid marriages and secured children.