In today’s reading, the LORD gives commandments regarding military service and waging war, making sacrifice for unknown murderer, marrying captive wives, matters concerning sons, and executing a death penalty by hanging. He gives further commandments on the welfare of others, and on marital and sexual behaviors. The LORD gives commandments concerning wholeness of body, and of purity, and permanently bars both Ammonites and Moabites from their congregations for their hard-heartedness and violence toward Israel in the wilderness. He gives commandments on camp sanitation, and on lending both to Israelites and to strangers, and gives laws about divorce and remarriage, and on protecting the poor.

Into/Outro music: "Unexpectedly" (c) 1995 Alex Grant Used by permission