Sometimes we treat the Bible and frankly the Book of Mormon as a direction manual, as if we're putting together a piece of IKEA furniture and we want to know exactly what to do next.

But mostly what we get are our principles. We get big concepts. We get ideas about love your enemy. We're not exactly instructed how to do that.

And the frustration of, I want to follow what the Lord says, and I don't know what it is,

except for love my enemy, what does that mean? Welcome back to come follow me with Fair Old Testament Year.

My name is Jennifer Roach-Lee's.

Today we are talking about Exodus 14 to 18.

It is April 13.

We are on week 16 of Come Follow me. This is a wonderful, wonderful

section of the Old Testament. As you know, if you've been watching this show, my goal is to make

you fall in love with the Old Testament or at least understand it a little bit better. I love the

Old Testament. It's weird. It's wonderful. It's so outside of our modern perspective and our

modern experience that it is just nothing short of fascinating. And I think you'll find that in this

week's chapters for sure. If you already love the Old Testament, I'm glad you're here. If you have

been rolling your eyes all year long so far at Come Follow Me, I hope that this makes you love the Old Testament just a tiny bit more.

So in this show, we're looking at each passage from four possible different points of view, four different things.

And we aren't going to do every single one on every single passage.

But the four things that we care about are like the narrative.

So what's the story?

What's actually going on? The themes that are like the narrative so what's the story what's actually going on the themes that are

in the passage the interpretation like what does it mean and then the problems like what's going on

in this passage that might cause somebody especially a modern reader to take a step back and go

I don't understand in this

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