Book of Deuteronomy bible study chapters 17 through 26

            Here is the third bible study from Deuteronomy, with the different rules for living and such as sacrifice, the Levitical priests and many different areas and actions of life to show you just how many rules for the Jews there really were. A similar section is found in Exodus chapters 21 through 23 and the entire book of Leviticus for those interested in studying that. This study continues with a lot of things in the past so please feel free to go back to read it.

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In chapter 17 of Deuteronomy there are rules for dealing with sacrifices and various evil doers in the community

(Deuteronomy 17:1)  "You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

(Deuteronomy 17:2)  "If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant,

(Deuteronomy 17:3)  and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden,

(Deuteronomy 17:4)  and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel,

(Deuteronomy 17:5)  then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.

(Deuteronomy 17:6)  On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.

(Deuteronomy 17:7)  The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

(Deuteronomy 17:8)  "If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.

(Deuteronomy 17:9)  And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.

(Deuteronomy 17:10)  Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the LORD will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you.

(Deuteronomy 17:11)  According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.

(Deuteronomy 17:12)  The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

(Deuteronomy 17:13)  And all the people shall hear and fear and not act presumptuously again.

(Deuteronomy 17:14)  "When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,'

(Deuteronomy 17:15)  you may indeed set a king over you whom the LORD your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

(Deuteronomy 17:16)  Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the LORD has said to you, 'You shall never return that way again.'

(Deuteronomy 17:17)  And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.

(Deuteronomy 17:18)  "And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests.

(Deuteronomy 17:19)  And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them,

(Deuteronomy 17:20)  that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.

In Deuteronomy chapter 18 there is information on the Levitical priests, their duties, that they have no inheritance with the people of Israel and blessings they get from the people who bring to them and also God will establish prophets and also it speaks of other false prophets

(Deuteronomy 18:1)  "The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the LORD's food offerings as their inheritance.

(Deuteronomy 18:2)  They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.

(Deuteronomy 18:3)  And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.

(Deuteronomy 18:4)  The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

(Deuteronomy 18:5)  For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for all time.

(Deuteronomy 18:6)  "And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives--and he may come when he desires--to the place that the LORD will choose,

(Deuteronomy 18:7)  and ministers in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD,

(Deuteronomy 18:8)  then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.

(Deuteronomy 18:9)  "When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

(Deuteronomy 18:10)  There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer

(Deuteronomy 18:11)  or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead,

(Deuteronomy 18:12)  for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out before you.

(Deuteronomy 18:13)  You shall be blameless before the LORD your God,

(Deuteronomy 18:14)  for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.

(Deuteronomy 18:15)  "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers--it is to him you shall listen--

(Deuteronomy 18:16)  just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.'

(Deuteronomy 18:17)  And the LORD said to me, 'They are right in what they have spoken.

(Deuteronomy 18:18)  I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

(Deuteronomy 18:19)  And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.

(Deuteronomy 18:20)  But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.'

(Deuteronomy 18:21)  And if you say in your heart, 'How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?'--

(Deuteronomy 18:22)  when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.

In chapter 19 of Deuteronomy God orders the setting up three safe harbor cities for people to flee to if need be, eventually to be six as Israel grows as the Lord promised they would, and also deals with the case of how to handle false accusers and false witnesses who are malicious

(Deuteronomy 19:1)  "When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,

(Deuteronomy 19:2)  you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

(Deuteronomy 19:3)  You shall measure the distances and divide into three parts the area of the land that the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.

(Deuteronomy 19:4)  "This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past--

(Deuteronomy 19:5)  as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies--he may flee to one of these cities and live,

(Deuteronomy 19:6)  lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.

(Deuteronomy 19:7)  Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities.

(Deuteronomy 19:8)  And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers--

(Deuteronomy 19:9)  provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways--then you shall add three other cities to these three,

(Deuteronomy 19:10)  lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

(Deuteronomy 19:11)  "But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,

(Deuteronomy 19:12)  then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

(Deuteronomy 19:13)  Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.

(Deuteronomy 19:14)  "You shall not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

(Deuteronomy 19:15)  "A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.

(Deuteronomy 19:16)  If a malicious witness arises to accuse a person of wrongdoing,

(Deuteronomy 19:17)  then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.

(Deuteronomy 19:18)  The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,

(Deuteronomy 19:19)  then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

(Deuteronomy 19:20)  And the rest shall hear and fear, and shall never again commit any such evil among you.

(Deuteronomy 19:21)  Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

In Deuteronomy chapter 20 God first assures the Israelites not to be afraid of any enemy that seems bigger for He will deliver them up then gives rules of engagement for various situations the Israelites may encounter in war

(Deuteronomy 20:1)  "When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

(Deuteronomy 20:2)  And when you draw near to the battle, the priest shall come forward and speak to the people

(Deuteronomy 20:3)  and shall say to them, 'Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them,

(Deuteronomy 20:4)  for the LORD your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.'

(Deuteronomy 20:5)  Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, 'Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.

(Deuteronomy 20:6)  And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.

(Deuteronomy 20:7)  And is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.'

(Deuteronomy 20:8)  And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, 'Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.'

(Deuteronomy 20:9)  And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, then commanders shall be appointed at the head of the people.

(Deuteronomy 20:10)  "When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.

(Deuteronomy 20:11)  And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you.

(Deuteronomy 20:12)  But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.

(Deuteronomy 20:13)  And when the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword,

(Deuteronomy 20:14)  but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.

(Deuteronomy 20:15)  Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.

(Deuteronomy 20:16)  But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,

(Deuteronomy 20:17)  but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded,

(Deuteronomy 20:18)  that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the LORD your God.

(Deuteronomy 20:19)  "When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you?

(Deuteronomy 20:20)  Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

In Deuteronomy chapter 21 there deals with the case of atoning innocent blood and others including unloved wives

(Deuteronomy 21:1)  "If in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him,

(Deuteronomy 21:2)  then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.

(Deuteronomy 21:3)  And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke.

(Deuteronomy 21:4)  And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

(Deuteronomy 21:5)  Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the LORD, and by their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled.

(Deuteronomy 21:6)  And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

(Deuteronomy 21:7)  and they shall testify, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed.

(Deuteronomy 21:8)  Accept atonement, O LORD, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.'

(Deuteronomy 21:9)  So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

(Deuteronomy 21:10)  "When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive,

(Deuteronomy 21:11)  and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife,

(Deuteronomy 21:12)  and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails.

(Deuteronomy 21:13)  And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

(Deuteronomy 21:14)  But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.

(Deuteronomy 21:15)  "If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,

(Deuteronomy 21:16)  then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn,

(Deuteronomy 21:17)  but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

(Deuteronomy 21:18)  "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,

(Deuteronomy 21:19)  then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,

(Deuteronomy 21:20)  and they shall say to 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.'

(Deuteronomy 21:21)  Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

(Deuteronomy 21:22)  "And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

(Deuteronomy 21:23)  his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.

In Deuteronomy chapter 22 here is a set of rules to handle a diverse variety of situations one can run into in life

(Deuteronomy 22:1)  "You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother.

(Deuteronomy 22:2)  And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him.

(Deuteronomy 22:3)  And you shall do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with any lost thing of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you may not ignore it.

(Deuteronomy 22:4)  You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again.

(Deuteronomy 22:5)  "A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.

(Deuteronomy 22:6)  "If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

(Deuteronomy 22:7)  You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.

(Deuteronomy 22:8)  "When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.

(Deuteronomy 22:9)  "You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.

(Deuteronomy 22:10)  You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

(Deuteronomy 22:11)  You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.

(Deuteronomy 22:12)  "You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.

(Deuteronomy 22:13)  "If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her

(Deuteronomy 22:14)  and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, 'I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity,'

(Deuteronomy 22:15)  then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

(Deuteronomy 22:16)  And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her;

(Deuteronomy 22:17)  and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, "I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity." And yet this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city.

(Deuteronomy 22:18)  Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him,

(Deuteronomy 22:19)  and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.

(Deuteronomy 22:20)  But if the thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman,

(Deuteronomy 22:21)  then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

(Deuteronomy 22:22)  "If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

(Deuteronomy 22:23)  "If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,

(Deuteronomy 22:24)  then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

(Deuteronomy 22:25)  "But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

(Deuteronomy 22:26)  But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor,

(Deuteronomy 22:27)  because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.

(Deuteronomy 22:28)  "If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

(Deuteronomy 22:29)  then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.

(Deuteronomy 22:30)  "A man shall not take his father's wife, so that he does not uncover his father's nakedness.

Chapter 23 of Deuteronomy has more information and rules to handle more situations that they may encounter

(Deuteronomy 23:1)  "No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.

(Deuteronomy 23:2)  "No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD.

(Deuteronomy 23:3)  "No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the LORD forever,

(Deuteronomy 23:4)  because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

(Deuteronomy 23:5)  But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.

(Deuteronomy 23:6)  You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.

(Deuteronomy 23:7)  "You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land.

(Deuteronomy 23:8)  Children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the LORD.

(Deuteronomy 23:9)  "When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

(Deuteronomy 23:10)  "If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp,

(Deuteronomy 23:11)  but when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water, and as the sun sets, he may come inside the camp.

(Deuteronomy 23:12)  "You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out to it.

(Deuteronomy 23:13)  And you shall have a trowel with your tools, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement.

(Deuteronomy 23:14)  Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

(Deuteronomy 23:15)  "You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.

(Deuteronomy 23:16)  He shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he shall choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You shall not wrong him.

(Deuteronomy 23:17)  "None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.

(Deuteronomy 23:18)  You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the LORD your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

(Deuteronomy 23:19)  "You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest.

(Deuteronomy 23:20)  You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

(Deuteronomy 23:21)  "If you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

(Deuteronomy 23:22)  But if you refrain from vowing, you will not be guilty of sin.

(Deuteronomy 23:23)  You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.

(Deuteronomy 23:24)  "If you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your bag.

(Deuteronomy 23:25)  If you go into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.

Deuteronomy chapter 24 handles various rules and information considering divorce and rules of divorce, the poor, and other matters

(Deuteronomy 24:1)  "When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,

(Deuteronomy 24:2)  and if she goes and becomes another man's wife,

(Deuteronomy 24:3)  and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,

(Deuteronomy 24:4)  then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the LORD. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.

(Deuteronomy 24:5)  "When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.

(Deuteronomy 24:6)  "No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.

(Deuteronomy 24:7)  "If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

(Deuteronomy 24:8)  "Take care, in a case of leprous disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

(Deuteronomy 24:9)  Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.

(Deuteronomy 24:10)  "When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to collect his pledge.

(Deuteronomy 24:11)  You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.

(Deuteronomy 24:12)  And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.

(Deuteronomy 24:13)  You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And it shall be righteousness for you before the LORD your God.

(Deuteronomy 24:14)  "You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.

(Deuteronomy 24:15)  You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the LORD, and you be guilty of sin.

(Deuteronomy 24:16)  "Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

(Deuteronomy 24:17)  "You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,

(Deuteronomy 24:18)  but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.

(Deuteronomy 24:19)  "When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

(Deuteronomy 24:20)  When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.

(Deuteronomy 24:21)  When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.

(Deuteronomy 24:22)  You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.

In Deuteronomy 25 still more situations are considered and handled like judicial matters with punishment, and fair weights and measures

(Deuteronomy 25:1)  "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,

(Deuteronomy 25:2)  then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.

(Deuteronomy 25:3)  Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.

(Deuteronomy 25:4)  "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

(Deuteronomy 25:5)  "If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

(Deuteronomy 25:6)  And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

(Deuteronomy 25:7)  And if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'

(Deuteronomy 25:8)  Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, 'I do not wish to take her,'

(Deuteronomy 25:9)  then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, 'So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'

(Deuteronomy 25:10)  And the name of his house shall be called in Israel, 'The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.'

(Deuteronomy 25:11)  "When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,

(Deuteronomy 25:12)  then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.

(Deuteronomy 25:13)  "You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.

(Deuteronomy 25:14)  You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.

(Deuteronomy 25:15)  A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

(Deuteronomy 25:16)  For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

(Deuteronomy 25:17)  "Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt,

(Deuteronomy 25:18)  how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.

(Deuteronomy 25:19)  Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.

In Deuteronomy chapter 26 is given detailed instructions on just how to handle a first fruits tithe from the land they got from the Lord, namely the Promised Land

(Deuteronomy 26:1)  "When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it,

(Deuteronomy 26:2)  you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.

(Deuteronomy 26:3)  And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'

(Deuteronomy 26:4)  Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

(Deuteronomy 26:5)  "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

(Deuteronomy 26:6)  And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.

(Deuteronomy 26:7)  Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

(Deuteronomy 26:8)  And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders.

(Deuteronomy 26:9)  And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

(Deuteronomy 26:10)  And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O LORD, have given me.' And you shall set it down before the LORD your God and worship before the LORD your God.

(Deuteronomy 26:11)  And you shall rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.

(Deuteronomy 26:12)  "When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled,

(Deuteronomy 26:13)  then you shall say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.

(Deuteronomy 26:14)  I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.

(Deuteronomy 26:15)  Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.'

(Deuteronomy 26:16)  "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

(Deuteronomy 26:17)  You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.

(Deuteronomy 26:18)  And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,

(Deuteronomy 26:19)  and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."

Here is a link to the concluding 8 chapters of the book of Deuteronomy including the blessings for obedience and also the consequences for disobeying God

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/deuteronomy-bible-study-chapters-27-through-34/10200707528544175

God is careful and merciful to give these commands to Israel wanting them to follow them for their own good and blessing. He gives us the same thing today, too for the same reasons. He also gives us Jesus for any time we should stumble and fall. Jesus paid the penalty on the cross for our sins making it easy to come to God. God also accepts back people who have drifted away and are willing to repent- He is that merciful. I am now including a prayer which will enable you to come to or return to God and experience His mercy and grace and a relationship like no other. Please pray this prayer with me

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours