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This week, we're reading some of Chapter 10 and Chapter 11.

But today, in this episode, we're going to be focusing on Chapter 10, calling back a little bit to last week's reading,

answering the question, what's the significance of cleanliness in the Bible? Now, when I was in the

third grade, I remember new neighbors moved into the neighborhood just a couple houses down,

and so my dad and I walked down the street to, to meet them.

And they just moved in. So I expected to see, you know, boxes, moving stuff. But when they

opened the door, they invited us in. And as soon as we stepped into the door and entered their

home, I recall my dad whispering to me, but quickly with like a rush tone,

take off your shoes. As I watched as he slipped off his own shoes too, which was adding to

the neat collection of shoes already lined up at their door. And I remember being caught off

guard by this, one, because I wasn't expecting to stay long, and two, because

this was different than the rules in our house. I mean, sure, my parents didn't want us to run up

the carpeted stairs in our school shoes or shoes we'd been playing outside in, but the downstairs

level of our home had tile, and so we didn't necessarily take off our shoes unless they were muddy or something. And if a guest

came over, we certainly weren't asking them to take off their shoes. This moment was probably for me

one of my first or earliest realizations that different households and different cultures

have different standards of cleanliness.

Some families wear shoes all over the house without ever thinking twice. Some people have

outside clothes or inside clothes. Some wipe down airplane seats with wipes. Some refuse to sit on hotel comforters or maybe they bring

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