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...
May 12, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
And they shall say to the elders of his city, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.” (Deuteronomy 21:20) As I mentioned yesterday, the severity of this command has fueled objections to the usefulness...
May 11, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his...
May 10, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved … and if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved, then it shall be, on the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in...
May 9, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
If you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and desire her and would take her for your wife, then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails. (Deuteronomy 21:11-12) I realize we’ve dealt with some interesting...
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