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 was 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, and their Saturday or Sabbath technically starts at sundown on Friday, which

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