Day 017 (Genesis 16-18) - Year 5
The Bible Recap
Tara-Leigh Cobble
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🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
| 0:07.0 | If you've ever wanted to go to Israel and you want to go with me, for free, stick around |
| 0:17.2 | after today's episode for more info on how you can win a trip. |
| 0:22.5 | Today is going to be longer than usual because this text is packed and I'm still going to |
| 0:26.8 | barely skin the surface, so buckle up and if you're listening faster than 1x you might |
| 0:31.4 | want to slow this down to normal speed. |
| 0:33.4 | In fact, you may even want to listen to this one twice. |
| 0:36.2 | Yesterday we ended with God making a covenant with Abram and today we picked up to read |
| 0:40.4 | a little bit of Sarah's story. |
| 0:42.2 | By this point she's at least 75 years old and she still has not had a child, even though |
| 0:46.6 | God had promised Abram a child when he visibly appeared to him. |
| 0:50.2 | So she does what many of us do when we feel like God is holding out on us. |
| 0:53.8 | She takes matters into her own hands. |
| 0:56.2 | In those days, servants were considered possessions which, let me pause here to say this very important |
| 1:01.2 | thing. |
| 1:02.2 | This is one of those things in scripture that is descriptive, not prescriptive. |
| 1:05.9 | It's telling us what is happening, not what should happen. |
| 1:09.0 | This is not condoning treating people like possessions. |
| 1:11.9 | But in that ancient culture, that's what was happening. |
| 1:15.1 | And basically anything a servant owned, the master owned, so the child of a servant |
| 1:18.7 | was considered the property of the master. |
| 1:21.4 | Sarah used that cultural norm as her logic behind making her servant have sex with her |
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