Deuteronomy 24
Lutheran reading notes
In Deuteronomy chapter 24, the story continues to develop the theme of renewal of the covenant and preparation to enter the promised land. Lutheran interpretation often highlights how the events reveal humanity’s need for God’s grace and the reliability of God's promises. The chapter illustrates both the reality of human weakness and the faithfulness of God who works through history.
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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. {some...: Heb. matter of nakedness} {divorcement: Heb. cutting off}
Deuteronomy 24:1 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's {wife}.
Deuteronomy 24:2 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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;
Deuteronomy 24:3 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Deuteronomy 24:4 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {neither...: Heb. not any thing shall pass upon him}
Deuteronomy 24:5 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh {a man's} life to pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:6 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Deuteronomy 24:7 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Deuteronomy 24:8 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 24:9 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. {lend...: Heb. lend the loan of any thing to, etc}
Deuteronomy 24:10 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
Deuteronomy 24:11 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And if the man {be} poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
Deuteronomy 24:12 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Deuteronomy 24:13 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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:
Deuteronomy 24:14 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {setteth...: Heb. lifteth his soul unto it}
Deuteronomy 24:15 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Deuteronomy 24:16 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, {nor} of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
Deuteronomy 24:17 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Deuteronomy 24:18 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Deuteronomy 24:19 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {go...: Heb. bough it after thee}
Deuteronomy 24:20 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {afterward: Heb. after thee}
Deuteronomy 24:21 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Deuteronomy 24:22 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.