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Deuteronomy 25 Bible study: That his name not be blotted out
One verb runs through Deuteronomy 25: a dead brother's name must not be "blotted out of Israel" (25:6), and Amalek's memory is to be blotted out (25:19). And when Sadducees used the brother's duty to argue against the resurrection, Jesus answered, "in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage" (Matthew 22:30).
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“You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.”
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“In Deuteronomy 25:3, the man who is beaten is called "your brother".”
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What's really going on
The guilty man is still your brother
The chapter opens in a court. The judges "shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked" (25:1). If "the wicked man is worthy to be beaten", the judge is to have it done "before his face, according to his wickedness, by number" (25:2). Then comes a limit: "He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more" (25:3). The law gives its reason, and in it the law says what the guilty man still is: "lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight" (25:3). Condemned and beaten, he is still "your brother". Paul later wrote, "Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews" (2 Corinthians 11:24); he doesn't cite this law there, and Scripture doesn't say where the "minus one" came from.
Where it leads to Jesus
In the resurrection
Deuteronomy 25:5leads toMatthew 22:29-30
The law says, "Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife", "that his name not be blotted out of Israel" (25:5-6). Sadducees, "those who say that there is no resurrection" (Matthew 22:23), quoted it to Jesus, "Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother’" (Matthew 22:24), and asked whose wife a woman married to seven brothers would be "in the resurrection" (Matthew 22:28). Jesus answered, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven" (Matthew 22:29-30). The WEB words their version differently from 25:5-6, which has "has no son" and "succeed in the name of his brother".
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The rest of Deuteronomy 25 is waiting in Favor
- A name kept, and a memory blotted out
- Honest weights, long days
- The feeble behind you
- Ruth, and the name of the dead
- The ox, in Paul's letters
- "Remember… by the way as you came out of Egypt"
- 11 questions as you read
- 12 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
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The Hebrew word behind it
מָחָהmachahsay ma-KHAH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "wipe, wipe out". Strong's: "by implication, to erase". It comes twice in this chapter. The brother's duty is "that his name not be blotted out of Israel" (25:6), and the chapter ends, "you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky" (25:19). The LORD had said it of Amalek before: "I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky" (Exodus 17:14). Deuteronomy uses it four times (9:14, 25:6, 25:19, 29:20).
For your group
Deuteronomy 25 Bible study questions
- 1Even the man who was judged guilty was still "your brother", and the law guarded him from being "degraded in your sight" (25:3). How do you treat someone whose wrong has already been dealt with?
- 2"One heavy and one light" (25:13). Where are you tempted to use one measure for yourself and another for other people?
- 3Amalek struck "all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary" (25:18). What would it look like for your group to watch out for whoever is at the back?
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