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

Yesterday we updated our senses to count the number of current Israelites about to enter

the promise land and we got a new law allotting land to women. I hope that those of

you who feel like scripture doesn't hold women in

high regard are starting to see God's heart toward women a little bit more.

Today we covered a passage that might have made you bristle a bit, but we're going to talk about that and I hope it will

help to smooth over any rough patches.

But before we get there, we have two chapters of laws and feasts.

There are a lot of things that stood out to me in this section.

First, in 28-3 through 4, I noticed that each of Israel's days are book-ended with worship.

They offer a sacrifice at twilight and in the morning.

And here's something interesting that isn't necessarily clear in this passage,

but it shows up elsewhere in scripture as well as in any Jewish literature and culture.

The Jewish day starts at sunset.

That's why in Genesis 1, the flow of the passage says,

there was evening and there is morning the first day.

There was evening and there is morning the second day.

And so on. This is going to be important as we

continue getting to know this family seeing how they live and how things play out

even with Jesus and his life. One of the practical ways this comes into play is with the Sabbath, which is when they're not supposed to work.

As we've talked about before, the word Sabbath is the Hebrew word for our English word Saturday.

Our Saturday technically starts at midnight, even though it's not morning yet,

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