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I'm Shelby and I'm here with Paul and we're in the book of Deuteronomy.

Today we're looking at chapters 16 through 18.

Give us kind of an overview of these chapters, Paul.

Yeah, so we're getting some calendar instructions for Israel,

which is a little interesting, but definitely still relevant. And then we get kind of some specific

instructions with dealing with some kind of specific administrative tasks like judgment over

wrongdoing kings, provision for those for without in

society and yeah that's what we get yeah i'm interested to come back to that calendar portion i think

we're going to talk about that in just a minute but can we talk about chapter 17 for just a second

because i think if you're reading through and you see the punishment for idolatry listed here is death by stoning,

that feels really heavy.

Can you help us understand that?

Yeah.

So we've seen throughout Deuteronomy and previous books that God really emphasizes not

worshiping other gods, but worshiping him alone.

And, you know, I think it can seem pretty extreme to our modern eyes, but, you know, if Israel is

God's people and God's people alone, and they start worshiping other gods, they're basically

saying, you aren't our God. We don't need you.

We can get what we need elsewhere. And, you know, it definitely, for us, when we think about

idolatry, we know we might talk about idolatry even in church about like how we have certain idols

over God. And so it can definitely feel scary like,

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