Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today, as we continue Moses' final speech, we encountered a wide variety of laws, and the first thing we

encountered was a law about divorce.

In fact, it's the only law about divorce in the Old Testament, and the first thing we encountered was a law about divorce. In fact, it's the

only law about divorce in the Old Testament, and it's very specific. We have to look at the cultural

practices of the day to see what this law is about, and even still, it's not entirely clear.

Some believe that this practice protects the first husband from an adulterous wife, while

others believe it protects the wife from a greedy husband. The first husband is an adulterous wife, while others believe it protects the

wife from a greedy husband. The first husband is the one who gets the bride's dowry. Then she would

have inherited her second husband's property when he died, so this law prevents the first husband

from exploiting her for his own financial gain. Either way, this law serves as a means of protection.

In 24-7, we see again that God is protective of all human life and that he disapproves of slavery as we know it. Kidnapping is forbidden and is

punished by the death penalty. It's considered theft, but it's punished by a greater consequence

than theft of anything else,

for obvious reasons. We also saw lots of measures to protect the poor. These were laws

instructing people to give back the coat of a poor person if they'd offered it as collateral,

because that's how they stayed warm at night. It also instructs them to not take a poor person's

millstone as collateral because millstones

are used to grind food, so that would mean they wouldn't have any way to eat.

God also commanded that they pay their poor servants when they needed it, which usually

means the same day they do their work, because they don't have any savings stored up to live on.

And he commands the Israelites to remember those who are landless,

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