Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

For most of this book, and in fact, for all of the rest of it, God is the only person who speaks.

He's talking a lot about holiness, which includes but isn't limited to

cleanliness. He gives laws about how people should live in community together in a way that is

both civil toward each other, horizontal laws or man-to-man laws, and laws about how to live

honorably toward God, vertical laws, or God-to-man laws. He starts out by restating a few of the Ten

Commandments. If you ever wonder

why God repeats himself so frequently, just stop for a second and think about how quickly the

Israelites forget. Or honestly, it's probably just blatant rebellion. Then God dives into application

of the horizontal laws, loving your neighbor as yourself. I'm just going to do a quick overview of

some of the things he touches on, because I think they really serve to reveal God's heart.

In 199 through 10, we see that God provides for the poor via the surplus of the rich, ordering

the rich not to fully harvest their fields. He'll reiterate this again tomorrow. And by the way, this law is one of the

ways God brought Ruth and Boas together. We'll read that story in a few weeks. In 1914, God speaks

specifically against injuring people in the area of their weakness. The deaf can't hear your

curses, and the blind can't see your stumbling blocks. So don't use people's wounds or

vulnerabilities to your

own advantage. In 1917, God encourages his people not to be ruled by selfish emotions. Instead,

be reasonable and communicate openly to avoid a rift. On D-group staff, the way we seek to operate

by this principle is, if someone says something negative about another person, they

have 24 hours to bring it to that person. It helps us honor each other while also honoring God

and not let these things fester in our hearts. God also emphasizes the importance of heart

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