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

Yesterday the Israelites finally got free from Egypt after 430 years and pretty immediately

God wants to make sure the whole experience sticks with them that they don't forget what

just happened.

He knows humanity pretty well and he knows how easy it is to forget the truth when we're

faced with lies, so he makes a few helpful commands.

Remember the celebration he told them to have to commemorate the Passover each year?

He wants them to follow that with a 7-day feast called the Feast of Unleavened Bread,

like the kind of bread they had to eat on the night of Passover.

I don't know about you guys, but so far I'm really resonating with all of this.

I'm glad I've been adopted by the God who ordains dinner parties and week-long feasts.

In 139 God says all of this shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial

between your eyes.

The Israelites took this quite literally.

In fact, if you were to go to Jerusalem today, you would see people from certain sects of

Judaism wearing a small black box tied on their forehead or strapped around their arms

and hands.

These little boxes have scripture written in them, they're called black deries.

This is one way they aim to remember the word of God.

God also tells them to consecrate the firstborns as a reminder that their firstborns were

spared when the firstborns of Egypt weren't.

He wants them to remember what they've been rescued from and celebrate his deliverance.

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