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Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So now, this last bit, Chapter 27, to be totally honest, is kind of tacked onto the end here.

Yeah, yeah.

But this is also very much summary, but also we just get some...

So a lot of what we're about to read

sounds like some really specific case law

right about particular situations.

And that's probably how it got added.

It sort of seems like we're applying some of the

things from earlier in the book.

Right? It's still Moses.

Within Moses' lifetime. It's still Moses, within Moses' lifetime.

It's like Moses has to make all these rulings on these things.

And so this is kind of going to be recording some of the rulings that were made about

yeah, about applying the previous stuff, right, that we already saw in the book of

Leviticus.

So it is not so much tacked onto the end like it's not important, but it's an appendix or an

Now the Lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to the children of Israel and say to them,

When a man vows a vow to the Lord equivalent to the value of his soul.

So, well, we talk about vows.

So first of all, these vows are voluntary. This is this

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