May 18, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together. (Deuteronomy 22:10-11) Once again we have instructions that, on the surface, might leave us wondering why Moses felt it...
May 17, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled. (Deuteronomy 22:9) This instruction, in conjunction with other similar commands, prohibits the mingling of mutually...
May 16, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. (Deuteronomy 22:6) In the grand scheme of things, why did...
May 15, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 22:5) Okay — so how can we possibly find inspiration in such a commandment? I mean, to most...
May 14, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep going astray, and hide yourself from them; you shall certainly bring them back to your brother. (Deuteronomy 22:1) While the primary emphasis of this command is to point out our responsibility to restore someone’s lost...
May 13, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
If a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an...
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