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

For most of this book and in fact for all of the rest of it, God is the only person who speaks.

He's talking a lot about holiness, which includes but isn't limited to cleanliness.

He gives laws about how people should live in community together

in a way that is both civil toward each other,

horizontal laws or man to man laws,

and laws about how to live honorably toward God, vertical laws, or God to man laws.

He starts out by restating a few of the Ten Commandments.

If you ever wonder why God repeats himself so frequently,

just stop for a second and think about how quickly the Israelites

forget.

Or honestly, it's probably just blatant rebellion.

Then God dives into application of the horizontal laws, loving your neighbor as yourself.

I'm just going to do a quick overview of some of the things he touches on,

because I think they really serve to reveal God's heart.

In 19-9 through 10, we see that God provides for the poor via the surplus of the rich,

ordering the rich not to fully harvest their fields.

He'll reiterate this again tomorrow.

And by the way, this law is one of the ways God brought Ruth and Boaz together.

We'll read that story in a few weeks.

In 1914, God speaks specifically against injuring people in the area of their weakness.

The deaf can't hear your curses and the blind can't see

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