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🗓️ 16 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. |
0:13.3 | If you've ever wanted to go to Israel and you want to go with me, for free, stick around |
0:17.6 | after today's episode for more info on how you can win a trip. |
0:22.5 | Today we enter a section of laws that pertain to cleanness and uncleanness, which if you |
0:26.7 | recall is one of the areas God told the priest to be mindful of. |
0:30.5 | We'll be in this section today and a little bit of tomorrow. |
0:33.5 | Today starts with God giving instructions on what to eat and what not to eat. |
0:37.5 | If you felt like this had echoes of Eden in it, you can eat this but don't eat that, |
0:41.3 | you're spot on. |
0:42.5 | God is recreating all of this space. |
0:45.7 | There are lots of theories on why specific animals are forbidden. |
0:49.0 | Hygiene, deviation from the norm, affiliation with canonite culture, but we don't really |
0:53.9 | know. |
0:55.2 | Keeping these food laws is one part of what is referred to in Jewish culture as keeping |
0:59.2 | kosher. |
1:00.4 | There are lots of other aspects to this, but dietary law is a big one. |
1:04.2 | And the saddest part of today's reading was here in 117. |
1:08.5 | No bacon. |
1:10.3 | In fact, one of the ways modern archaeologists can tell when and where ancient Jews lived |
1:14.6 | in Israel is because there are no pig bones in that layer of soil. |
1:18.5 | Pigs were wildly popular food among the canonites, who I've never felt such a kinship with |
1:22.9 | until now. |
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