Hey, it's Shelby and Paul here. We are approaching the end of the book of Deuteronomy. Today we're talking through chapters 25 through 28. Give us a high level view of what's happening in these chapters, Paul. Yeah, so we're getting a few more laws,

as expected, but then we're also getting pretty extended description of kind of these blessings

and curses that we've seen come up throughout Deuteronomy. And, you know, finishing at the end of

chapter 28 can be a little bit heavy after a lot of talk about curses, but we're going to

point you to some hope today.

Okay. I'm excited to get to that hope. So let's dive in. We break these chapters down a little bit more

for us. Yeah. So I'm actually going to start with a particular law that we see in chapter 25 versus

5 through 10. And it's the law that is related to leverett marriage, which is kind of a weird concept for us,

for moderate readers.

Yeah, very different.

Yeah, but basically it's, you know, giving women whose husbands pass away a chance

to still have a son. If they hadn't had a son before their husband passed, the husband's

brother is supposed to give her a son, and that son will be considered

from her deceased husband.

And it's important to remember that in this context, women often didn't have a whole lot of

ways to provide for themselves.

And so marriage and then having sons who could provide for them was often the best way

to guarantee their survival and provision.

And so for their husband to die

before they had a son was really problematic. So God is basically giving them a way, providing for them

in a way that is direct and is able to guarantee their lineage. And I bring this up because it has

really big relevance in a later book of the Bible,

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