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A modest stone house has an unfinished plain timber doorway and an unused earthen jar nearby.
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Deuteronomy 20:5

Return to the New House

Hear the Battle Laws and Spare the Food Trees · Deuteronomy 20

Story guide: A new house accompanies the exemption allowing its builder to return home before another man dedicates it.

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5Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Who is the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.’

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