November 28, 2024
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Reading along with us in Numbers and 1 Corinthians? Here’s today’s reading:
Numbers 35 (NIV)
Towns for the Levites
1 On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the Lord said to Moses, 2“Command the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. And give them pasturelands around the towns. 3 Then they will have towns to live in and pasturelands for the cattle they own and all their other animals.……Continue Reading
First let me pause to say I appreciate that we still use an idea of intentional and unintentional murder even today to protect people from the extreme punishments that can come when their intent was never to actually take a life. But let me also say our “unintentional” murder scenarios look very different from this list given here. “if someone suddenly pushes another or throws something at them unintentionally or, without seeing them, drops on them a stone heavy enough to kill them,” (please tell me I wasn’t the only one that read this list and pictured a bit of an Acme cartoon scenario lol)
In all seriousness, it is cool to see God laying down ground work for justice and ideas that we still use today! Ways to keep people safe and ensure proper chanels of justice in all the many different situations that can occur when man interacts with one another.