Study Desk

When you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.

When you enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor's grain.

If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.

But if the man does not want to marry his brother's widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, "My husband's brother refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me."

But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.

The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain to your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.

The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you.

You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

You will have olive trees throughout your territory, but you will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.

He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you."

When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.