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🗓️ 5 February 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 | About seven weeks after leaving Egypt, the Israelites finally make it to the wilderness |
0:17.5 | of Sinai, at the base of Mount Sinai. |
0:20.1 | We've seen this mountain referred to earlier in Scripture as the Mountain of God, and it's |
0:23.8 | probably also the same place as Mount Horib. |
0:26.7 | It seems to be one of God's favorite places. |
0:29.5 | Here God calls to Moses from out of the mountain, and Moses passes his words along to the |
0:33.8 | people. |
0:34.8 | These people who, as far as we can tell, seem to complain more than they praise, promise |
0:39.7 | to do everything God commands of them. |
0:42.3 | We'll see. |
0:44.0 | God says he's going to meet the people at Mount Sinai, so they need to consecrate themselves. |
0:48.4 | This is the same thing he called them to do for the firstborns, and it basically means |
0:52.2 | set them apart and prepare them to encounter God. |
0:55.4 | It usually involves a bath and some clean clothes. |
0:58.4 | And Moses also tells them to abstain from sex during this time, not because women are |
1:01.9 | evil, but because things like seminal fluids and blood are symbols of life and death. |
1:06.7 | As far as their laws for cleanliness are concerned, to be depleted of either of those things |
1:11.1 | points to the depletion of life, which wasn't considered an appropriate way to honor the |
1:15.3 | presence of the giver of life. |
1:17.8 | When the people come to meet God, they cannot touch the mountain or they'll die. |
1:22.1 | And if someone does touch it, no one is allowed to touch that person. |
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