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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. We've only got one day left in Leviticus, so let's make the most of it. Today, God is still giving Moses instructions on how the people should live in society together, since this is not only the first time they've had a chance to be free people, but also the first time they've really interacted with God.
They've only known him for about a year at this point, and they're still learning to trust him. Maybe you can relate. God's instructions today covered a lot of territory. The perpetual maintenance of the tabernacle, caring for the poor, jubilee. We also see a specific instance where God tells Israel how to handle blasphemers. A man curses the name of God, and God orders him to be stoned.
The purpose of this illustration, since it involves a man who is half Egyptian, was likely to point out that the same rules applied to those who are foreigners. And as far as the decision God established to stone him to death, remember, the Israelites are in a unique situation given that they're a nation-state set apart as God's people.
And it's always important to remember that we all deserve death. This man got what he deserved. The rest of us are just living on mercy. The blasphemer's story is immediately followed with a verse that says, "'Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.'"
This is an illustration of what we talked about with the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20, about how killing is different than murder. Otherwise, the person who puts a murderer to death would be a murderer, and someone would have to murder him, and then the chain reaction would continue until all God's people were dead.
God establishes killing and murder as two different things, and he puts the power to kill in the hands of the judges. At least, that's who most commentators believe these instructions are for. in part because they're followed by the whole eye for an eye passage. The way this is delivered seems to indicate that it was guidance for judicial rulings.
So a judge would order your offender to pay back what he stole from you. This is not saying you should go take it for yourself. God was outlining order and civility and setting up some deterrence to sinning against your neighbor. Then God continues with a new kind of Sabbath command, to let their fields rest on the seventh year, just as he's commanded the people to rest on the seventh day.
The number seven symbolizes completion and perfection, so we'll continue to see God reiterating that. And by the way, Leviticus itself is written in seven sections, and some of those sections have seven interior sections. All that to say, it's a thing. Then God sets out the plan for Jubilee. He says this will happen on the year after seven weeks of years.
Based on what we talked about yesterday, I bet you already knew what this meant. Seven weeks of years would mean seven times seven, which is 49. So the year after that is the 50th year, the year of Jubilee. This pattern mirrors exactly what we saw yesterday with the 50 days between the Feast of Passover and Pentecost.
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