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

This is another day that unexpectedly brought me to tears, and I can't wait to tell you why.

Today we continue with God's laws for the people delivered to Moses, but remember that the

point of what we're reading isn't the laws. It's what's underneath the laws. What do they point to?

I always want to be encouraging us to look for God when we read. Some days it'll be harder than others.

Maybe today was one of those days. That's okay. The way you feel about the text doesn't decrease its

value in your life. It's adding value to your life to fix your eyes on these pages, whether you feel

it right now or not. So what do we see about God in the laws he's setting out? One of the things

underneath much of what we read today was that God wants his people to be clean and he keeps reminding

that he is the one who makes them clean. I am the Lord who sanctifies you. We get repeated

reminders of both God's holiness and his rescue in these passages. In chapter 23 we see a lot

about feasts. Since I don't have time to go into this in-depth, we'll include a short article in the

show notes that explains these seven feasts and their significance. As always, when we include a

resource, we can't vouch for everything on that site. We're just including that one particular

resource, though in general we do try to be careful about what we're sending you. So back to the

feasts. First, God reminds them again about a weekly

feast called the Sabbath. Then there are six annual feast covered here, and you should recognize a

few of them from our reading so far. It can get really confusing, though, since a lot of these feasts

have multiple names. You probably recognize Passover, which is also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

You may also recognize the Feast of First Fruits, although when we read about it in Exodus 34, it was called the Feast of Harvest.

And on that same day, we read about the Feast of End Gathering, which is called the Feast of Booths here.

And then there's the one we read about most recently in Leviticus 16, The Day of Atonement.

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