From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for March 7   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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   
      
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