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🗓️ 16 February 2021
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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 | Today we enter a section of laws that pertain to cleanness and uncleanness, which if you |
0:17.4 | recall is one of the areas God told the priest to be mindful of. |
0:21.2 | We'll be in this section today and a little bit of tomorrow. |
0:24.2 | Today starts with God giving instructions on what to eat and what not to eat. |
0:28.2 | If you felt like this had echoes of Eden in it, you can eat this but don't eat that, |
0:32.0 | you're spot on. |
0:33.2 | God is recreating all of this space. |
0:36.5 | There are lots of theories on why specific animals are forbidden. |
0:39.6 | Hygiene, deviation from the norm, affiliation with canonite culture, but we don't really |
0:44.6 | know. |
0:46.0 | Keeping these food laws is one part of what is referred to in Jewish culture as keeping |
0:49.9 | kosher. |
0:50.9 | There are lots of other aspects to this but dietary law is a big one. |
0:54.9 | And the saddest part of today's reading was here in 117, no bacon. |
1:01.0 | In fact, one of the ways modern archaeologists can tell when and where ancient Jews lived |
1:05.3 | in Israel is because there are no pig bones in that layer of soil. |
1:09.2 | Pigs were wildly popular food among the canonites, whom I've never felt such a kinship with |
1:13.6 | until now. |
1:15.1 | So there are pig bones all over pagan country, but not where gods people lived. |
1:20.6 | They're also not allowed to eat anything that dies on its own, it has to be killed. |
1:24.6 | Especially because if it dies on its own, it might have a disease. |
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