We are in the middle of a theme study looking at the logic of redemption in the Bible.

What does it mean that God redeems us from death?

What does it mean that Jesus redeems us by his blood?

As a summary, we began remembering that all of life is a gift.

We have life because God gave us life.

Without God's breath in us, we cannot exist.

And so, God is the rightful owner of our lives.

Yet, the story of the Bible is how we threw this gift of life away with our violence

and our oppression of others.

Humanity has individually and collectively

given ourselves over to death. And so the story of the Bible is about how God will bring us

out of death back to where we belong, back into his life. And this transfer of possession is what

a redemption is.

It's God repossessing us.

Repossession, which I'm finding as I'm sitting in this redemption idea more is a very helpful English synonym.

In today's episode, we're going to look at two passages in the Torah where the word redeem is used.

These are obscure passages.

One is about cities of refuge, a place where someone can flee if they've accidentally murdered someone.

It's a place where they can be protected from the blood avenger, which is literally the

blood redeemer.

We'll also look at a law that wrestles with what to do with an unsolved

murder. Who will be held responsible for the murder if we don't know who did it? Well, in this

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