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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. Moses is still giving his final speech to the Israelites before he dies and they enter the promised land. He starts with some peculiar commands about haircuts. Back in the day, one of the way pagans grieved was by shaving their heads. And Moses was outlawing this because it was pagan adjacent.
This law had already been given to the priests back in Leviticus 21, but here Moses gives it to all the Israelites who were supposed to look and live differently than their neighbors. Pagans were also known to cut themselves as a part of their ritual mourning practices, and Moses forbids that too. He also covers some dietary laws, much of which we've seen before.
One of the interesting ones here that carries a lot of weight in keeping kosher comes from 1421, the command not to boil a goat in its mother's milk. Over the years, many rabbis have debated over what all the laws mean and how to apply them. They often extend the boundaries of what is unacceptable to make sure they don't get anywhere close to breaking the actual law.
They call this building a fence around the law. One of the things the rabbis deduced about this law was that they should avoid mixing milk and meat. So today, if you go to Israel, you'll find that those two things aren't served at the same meal for any place that keeps kosher.
You can switch it up however you like schedule-wise, but typically, dairy is served at breakfast, loads of cheeses and milks and yogurts, and meat is served at the other meals. Kosher households won't even use the same plates for meat and dairy. And if you're a wealthy kosher family, you probably even have two whole separate kitchens. This is how far people would go to avoid breaking these laws.
And the heart behind this could be good, but we'll see over time how these fences began to be treated like they were the law itself, instead of a man-made attempt to protect the law. In the laws for the sabbatical year, we see God's heart toward the poor on display again. Debts are forgiven and servants are released from their contracts.
God promised that if they remain faithful to his command, there will always be enough to go around. And those who would be considered poor will be cared for by the surplus of the wealthy. If they're faithful to him, he will bless them so much that the other nations around them will borrow from them and they won't ever have to borrow.
This keeps the Israelites free from the kind of financial attachments to pagan nations that might result in their being enslaved again. God also sets out some commands about how to feel and think, not just how to act. God's concern for things at a heart level doesn't just start in the New Testament. He's always been after our hearts, not just our obedience.
In 15.9-10, He says things like, He cares about our motives. In February's RNC episode, we talked about how the arrangement for debtors is different than the Atlantic slave trade, even though the word slave is what's used in scripture. If you missed that conversation, check it out when you have a chance. I think it will be really helpful. We'll link to it in the show notes today.
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