Nov 24, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. (Deuteronomy 1:2) Two hundred years ago, before the invention of automobiles and other modern modes of transportation, a pilgrim to the Holy Land decided to make the journey from Horeb to the...
Nov 23, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. (Deuteronomy 1:1) In the Jewish world, the book we call Deuteronomy is known officially...
Nov 22, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
They shall be cities of refuge for you from the avenger, that the man slayer may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment. (Numbers 35:12) There is something very interesting about the “avenger” or “avenger of blood”...
Nov 21, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Now among the cities which you will give to the Levites you shall appoint six cities of refuge, to which a man slayer may flee. (Numbers 35:6) Six cities were appointed to serve as “cities of refuge” — a temporary asylum for those who committed...
Nov 20, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
And the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying: “Command the children of Israel that they give the Levites cities to dwell in from the inheritance of their possession, and you shall also give the Levites common-land around...
Nov 19, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance—the land of Canaan to its boundaries.” (Numbers 34:1-2) This chapter is...
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