Saturday, January 3, 2009

Numbers 29

Not a lot to say about the reading today - just a continuation of the previous chapter with details and regulations on special yearly sacrifices. This section specifically focuses on several holy days in the seventh month, and the Feast of Weeks (in the same month). Aside from the pretty high amount of animals being offered to the Lord there isn't much else here. Oh, I suppose it is noteworthy that the Israelites were told not to do any "regular work" on the holy days: that makes them very much like our modern holidays, and perhaps it was even where the custom of having them off work came from in western society.

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