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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. Yesterday we updated our census to count the number of current Israelites about to enter the Promised Land, and we got a new law allotting land to women. I hope that those of you who feel like Scripture doesn't hold women in high regard are starting to see God's heart toward women a little bit more.
Today we covered a passage that might have made you bristle a bit, but we're going to talk about that and I hope it will help to smooth over any rough patches. But before we get there, we have two chapters of laws and feasts. There are a lot of things that stood out to me in this section. First, in 28, 3-4, I noticed that each of Israel's days are book-ended with worship.
They offer a sacrifice at twilight and in the morning. And here's something interesting that isn't necessarily clear in this passage, but it shows up elsewhere in scripture as well as in any Jewish literature and culture. The Jewish day starts at sunset. That's why in Genesis 1, the flow of the passage says, there was evening and there was morning the first day.
There was evening and there was morning the second day. And so on. This is going to be important as we continue getting to know this family, seeing how they live and how things play out even with Jesus and his life. One of the practical ways this comes into play is with the Sabbath, which is when they're not supposed to work.
As we've talked about before, the word Sabbath is the Hebrew word for our English word Saturday. Our Saturday technically starts at midnight, even though it's not morning yet, and their Saturday, or Sabbath, technically starts at sundown on Friday, which will vary based on what time zone you're in and what season you're in. For the Israelites we're in the desert with, it would be around 8 p.m.
at the latest and around 4.30 p.m. at the earliest, depending on the time of year. So for instance, in winter when the sun sets at 4.30 p.m. on a Friday, that's when their Sabbath day of rest, their Saturday, would start. And it would continue through the night until the morning through the day and end at 4.30 p.m. the next day when their Sunday would begin.
If you ever happen to be in Jerusalem right before the Sabbath starts, around 2 p.m. on a Friday, you'll see people rushing around like crazy trying to get things done. Then, after the Sabbath starts, you don't see any traffic on the streets. Stores and restaurants are closed, and the city is calm and resting.
Then, once the sun sets again on the next day to end the Sabbath, there are parties and celebrations in the street, stores open back up, music pours out of windows, the whole town comes alive again. They still live out this ancient principle handed down to them by God. The reason I'm describing this at length is because, as you may have noticed, God brought it up again today.
We can hardly get through any chunk of laws without Him saying, don't forget, rest. Hey, remember, one day a week, stop working. And it's not just a day about doing nothing. It's a day about reconnecting with Him. We see evidence of that in our reading today when He commands twice the sacrifices on the Sabbath as on any other day of the week. Sacrificing isn't considered regular work.
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