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🗓️ 18 March 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.2 | Moses continues his farewell speech today and he covers a wide variety of laws in these |
0:17.6 | three chapters. |
0:19.0 | We don't have time to touch on them all, so I'll just pull a few from the ones that might |
0:22.4 | have been the most perplexing from our reading, most of which pertain to relationships between |
0:27.0 | men and women. |
0:28.8 | But before we get there, I want to remind us about a few things just so we have the proper |
0:32.8 | framework for what we're encountering here. |
0:36.4 | God is not setting up a utopian society where everything is ideal. |
0:40.9 | God is meeting the people where they are and giving them a framework for a functional |
0:44.7 | society where people are treated with at least the bare minimum level of respect. |
0:49.9 | When God addresses something like multiple wives, it doesn't mean he's putting a seal of |
0:54.0 | approval on it. |
0:55.1 | It means he's acknowledging that it happens and he's giving them honorable ways to respond |
1:00.2 | to an imperfect, sinful situation. |
1:03.3 | We'll hit some challenging passages today and it's important for us to remember not to |
1:07.0 | overlay our cultural experience onto theirs. |
1:10.9 | Speaking of which, let's go over the first tough segment, marrying female captives. |
1:16.6 | For anyone in Western society today, this idea is really cringe-inducing. |
1:22.2 | We even bulk at the idea of arranged marriage and this feels like it fringes on our idea |
1:26.6 | of love and marriage even more. |
1:29.2 | One of the things we have to remember about this society is that marriage rarely fit our |
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