This is the Bible Book Club. And we're in the book of numbers. Welcome to the club.

Last episode, we covered a lot of chapters. You read a lot. 27 through 29. First,

Zalefahad's daughter took a stand and fought for their father's land.

Moses graciously took it to the Lord as Moses always does.

And the Lord was merciful and provided a new law for the girls.

Then Moses and God met on the mountain to take a sneak peek of the promised land and did a little succession planning while they were up there.

Joshua was named the next leader of Israel.

And then last, God commanded the new generation to keep all the holy days and then provides a

calendar, a list of when and how they were to make these offerings.

All right.

Chapter 30, God is going to outline some interesting details on vows to God.

A vow is a promise to God. And we most recently discussed vows in number six when we read about the

rules for taking a vow to be in Nazarite. Now, most often, a vow was made by an Israelite during a critical time in their life.

It could be a simple prayer like, dear God, if you help me with blank, I will blank.

Who hasn't made one of those kind of deals with God?

Exactly. We still do. It usually took the form of a promise to give God something or sacrifice something or a pledge to abstain from something.

As simple as the prayer may be, keeping the vow could be complicated or difficult.

An example of one of these in the Bible would be Hannah in 1 Samuel. Hannah struggled with

infertility. She prayed to God and made a vow that if God gave her son, she would give him

up to serve the Lord for his whole life. And this was very difficult for her. She gave up

Samuel around the age of three. Now, a vow was a binding agreement

with God, which led to problems because what if you didn't or couldn't keep a vow? One problem with

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