Do not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, established at the start in the inheritance you will receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess (Deuteronomy 19:14 CSB). Human nature is to think of ourselves before others. Sometimes we are willing to cheat our neighbors or...

You may say to yourself, “How can we recognize a message the LORD has not spoken?” When a prophet speaks in the LORD’s name, and the message does not come true or is not fulfilled, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously....

Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, he will not turn from this command to the right or the left, and he and his sons will continue reigning many years in Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:20 CSB). God tells the people that they will want a king and then...

Everyone must appear with a gift suited to his means, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you (Deuteronomy 16:17 CSB). The directions for celebrating the festivals of Passover, Weeks, and Shelters required the people both to set aside time to rest and celebrate and also set...

“If there is a poor person among you, one of your brothers within any of your city gates in the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward youre poor brother. Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan...

Each year you are to set aside a tenth of all the produce grown in your fields (Deuteronomy 14:22 CSB). God commanded the people of Israel to set aside a tenth of what they grew each year and consume it in His presence as a way to remember Him and...

You must follow the LORD your God and fear him. You must keep his commands and listen to him; you must worship him and remain faithful to him (Deuteronomy 13:4 CSB). God reminds the people that the temptation to worship other gods would not just come from the presence of...

Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree (Deuteronomy 12:2 CSB). Chapter 12 begins a section that extends through chapter 26 in which God instructs how the people are to live...

Keep every command I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to cross into and possess the land you are to inherit, and so that you may live long in the land the LORD swore to your ancestors to give them and their descendents, a land...

You are also to love the resident alien, since you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt (Deuteronomy 10:19 CSB). So far in Deuteronomy, we have seen many calls to love the Lord our God. Here, though, there is a call to “love the resident alien.” I don’t know...