Category: Reading through the Bible
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Day 066: Rams, Lambs, and Silly Women, Part Two: A Woman’s Word (Numbers 30:3-5)
3 “If a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father’s house in her youth, 4 and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every…
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Day 066: Rams, Lambs, and Silly Women, Part One: So. Many. Lambs.
“And you shall offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord, thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;” Numbers 29:13 ESV There’s something in Numbers 28-30 to offend just about everybody. Animal rights activists won’t like all the…
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Day 067: Does the Bible Sanction Genocide? (Numbers 31:15-18)
15 Moses said to them, “Have you let all the women live? 16 Behold, these, on Balaam’s advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the Lord. 17 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones,…
