Fair Payment

Deuteronomy 25:4   New International Version   4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain. What does this mean? Oxen were often used to tread out the grain on a threshing floor. As the animal walked around attached by poles to the millstone, the grain...

Discipline

Deuteronomy 25:1-3   New International Version   25 When people have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty. 2 If the guilty person deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make them...

Protect Your Marriage

Deuteronomy 24:5   New International Version   5 If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married. Newly married couples were to...

Think Before You Act

Deuteronomy 24:1-4   New International Version   24 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, 2 and if after she...

Healthy Marriage

Deuteronomy 23:17-18   New International Version   17 No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute. 18 You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because...