Deuteronomy (Chapters 23-24)

Deuteronomy 23–24 records laws for Israel concerning the assembly of the Lord, holiness in the camp, marriage, justice, and care for others. Certain groups were restricted from the assembly, and Israel was commanded to remain holy before the Lord. These chapters also include laws protecting workers, marriages, foreigners, widows, and the fatherless. The commands show God’s concern for holiness, justice, and compassion within Israel’s covenant community.

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Setting The Stage: Deuteronomy 23

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SPEAKER_02 0:27

Hey everybody, welcome back to Teach Me the Bible Podcast. We're walking through the book of Deuteronomy, and today we're picking up in chapter 23. We're continuing to walk through a lot of these detailed case laws and how Israel was to apply these Ten Commandments, really, uh, in various situations. And so um hopefully you've been coming along with us up to this point, and it's been uh greatly helpful to you and your reading and understanding of these things and how they play out in the rest of Scripture. And so we're gonna keep doing what we're doing. Chapter 23, uh verse one, Doc. If you want to pick us up there, that'd be great.

Who May Enter The Assembly

Dr. David Klingler 1:04

So we pick it up here. No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord. You know, well, that's a interesting one. Um no one of illegitimate birth shall ever enter the assembly of the Lord. Uh none of his seed or his descendants, even to the tenth generation shall enter the assembly of the Lord. No Ammonite, no Moabite shall enter the assembly of the Lord, none of their descendants, none of them, even to the tenth generation shall enter the assembly of the Lord, because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you went out of Egypt, because they hired against you Balaam, the son of Boor, the uh from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. Nevertheless, the Lord your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, um, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you. Um you shall never seek their peace nor their prosperity all of your days. Sounds very harsh. One of the interesting things about how this story goes along, and you're gonna see this um, you know, you know, uh in several examples. Um you've heard it said, you shall love your brother and pray for him, but I tell you you're to love your enemy, pray for your enemy. Well, how how did we get there? Right? Here it seems like you're not supposed to you know pray for your enemy, utterly destroy it, wipe them off the planet.

SPEAKER_02 2:32

Yeah. Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 2:33

So the Amorite, Hittite, Canaanite, Jebusite, wipe them off the planet, um, you know, the Moabite, the Edomite, uh, you know, the Anno uh Ammonite, you know, you get these instructions here. Um, you know, particularly the uh the Ammonite and the Moabite, because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Boor to curse you. But then you'll see these characters come into the story, like Ruth, who aligns herself with the blessing. Who's a Moabite? Who is a Moabite? You're going, okay, now how does that work? Well, uh or the Canaanite who aligns herself with the promise and the blessing. How does how does that work? Or an emasculated one. I'm I'm reminded of uh of this story. So so what happens then in the story? Uh, and and this is why you can't stop in one specific place in the story and freeze frame it and apply your theology, right? Um because what's gonna happen then is you're gonna say, well, the Bible contradicts itself. Well, um, I use this example in class, I just kind of fumbled into it, but now I use it. Uh you know, and I'm I'm I tell students that the story moves, the plot moves, uh, and um and the situations change. Yeah, good point. Um we can call it whatever we want to call it. Uh you can, you know, dispensationalism or whatever. Um, you know, and before we start criticizing this the concept of dispensations, I would say, well, uh, no one is going to Temple Mount to offer sacrifices. Why? Because things have changed in the story, right? That's the point, right? Um, and so what happens in this Old Testament story is Israel is told, you go into the land, you utterly destroy them. Don't intermarry with them. Um man, woman, child, if it breeds, kill it, tear down all their stuff, because they will cause you to follow their gods.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

And you'll join them.

Dr. David Klingler 4:34

And you'll join them, and then the Lord your God is a jealous God, and his anger will burn against you, and he'll wipe you off the planet. He will disperse you among the nations. Uh, and then when you're dispersed among the nations and you serve their gods, then um the it will move the Lord to anger, and so he will bring the nations to himself to move you to anger, to move you to jealousy. Well, this is all going to happen in the story, right? So at this point in the story, he's saying, Don't do it. Well, they're going to do it.

SPEAKER_03 4:59

Yeah.

Storyline Moves, Not Snapshots

Dr. David Klingler 5:00

Don't uh intermarry with him. They're going to intermarry with him, utterly destroy them. They're not going to utterly destroy them. Um, and we're going to watch this all play out. Yeah. And so what then is going to happen is Israel is going to reject the Lord because they're going to be led astray. Um, and the covenant curses are going to kick in, and we're going to be covering those in the in the coming weeks, Deuteronomy chapter uh 28 and Leviticus chapter 26. Uh, they're going to be scattered, they're going to be dispersed. Uh, the covenant curses are going to come on them to get them to repent, to return. They're still not going to do it. Uh, they're going to go after the foreign gods. And and so, all the way through this Old Testament story, there's going to be a remnant in Israel that's going to continue to be faithful and believe. The prophets will be part of that. But Israel's going to rebel. So, now what do you do when your brother has rebelled against the Lord and has gone after foreign gods, or rejecting the Lord and rejected the rock of his salvation, that is the Christ.

SPEAKER_02 6:00

What happens when your brother becomes the enemy?

Dr. David Klingler 6:02

That's right, exactly right. Uh, your brother is your enemy. Um, this is what Paul is lamenting in Romans chapter 9. But it's not as though the word of God has failed. Not all Israel is Israel, because not all Israel believed. I wish that I were myself accursed for my brethren. He's uh taking the gospel in chapter 11 of Romans uh to the Gentiles for the sake of my brethren that I might win a few.

SPEAKER_02 6:30

They're chosen because of the fathers, but for the sake of the gospel, they're enemies. They're rebellion. Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 6:36

Uh and so through Israel's rejection, all of these rejected people are being brought near.

SPEAKER_03 6:44

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 6:45

And we're watching this play out in the book of Acts, right? And I I mentioned all that uh to um uh to you know draw attention to what's going on in Acts eight, nine, ten, eleven. Uh you'll remember uh that uh the angel, uh I pick it up in chapter eight, verse twenty six of Acts. The angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Get up and go south to the road that descends uh from Jerusalem to Gaza. And he went up, and there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all of her treasure. Uh and he had come up to Jerusalem to worship, and he was returning and sitting in his chair, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. And then the spirit said to Philip, Go up and join the chariot. Well, what do we care? He's a eunuch. You know, let no emasculated ever join, you know. Um, and Philip ran up and uh, you know, heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, Do you understand what you're reading? He said, Well, how could I unless someone guides me? And he invited Philip to come in and sit with him. And the passage of the scripture which we were reading was he was uh led as a sheep to slaughter, as a lamb before its shears, uh is silent, and uh he does not open his mouth. In humiliation his judgment was taken away. Uh, who will relate this his generation for his life is removed from the earth? And the eunuch answered Philip and said, Tell me, of whom does the prophet say this? Of himself or someone else? And Philip opened his mouth and began from the scriptures and preach Jesus to him. And uh, you know, and this Ethiopian eunuch believes, he says, Look, here's water. What prevents me from being baptized? And uh and so he ordered the chariot to stop, and they went down to the water, and the eunuch was baptized. Um then in the next uh chapters, you get the you know, you know, you know how un uh uh uh lawful it is for me, a Jew, to hang out with you, a gentile. Nevertheless, God has shown me that I am not to regard as unholy that which the Lord has cleansed. See, yeah, so you're watching this restoration of all the rejected people because the chosen people have rejected him. So he's going to those, you know, the quote rejected people, the enemy, yeah, and bringing the enemy him to himself, the the opposition to himself, Satan's side, Satan's team to himself, yeah, to move Israel to jealousy, to move them to anger. And this is going to be all spelled out in Deuteronomy chapter 32, the song of Moses. So we're so we're gonna get there.

SPEAKER_02 9:18

And that is how Acts ends, where Paul's saying, y'all are still blind, still deaf, still hard-hearted. I'm going to the Gentiles. Yep. He's quoting Isaiah, he's quoting Deuteronomy 32, Deuteronomy 29, because you do not have eyes to see or ears to hear or heart to know.

From Enemies To Unexpected Allies

Dr. David Klingler 9:32

So that's good. So you're you're still under the judgment. And so here the the law is saying, look, don't you, you know, you don't you stay away from these people because they will lead you astray. They're trying to curse you. Uh they're trying to get you to go after their gods, don't go their way. Yeah. Now, uh, once they've led them astray, then the Lord's gonna go get these people to bring them back. Now, the the great irony here is this is the means by which all the nations of the earth will be blessed. All the nations will be shown mercy through Israel's disobedience. Paul's going to explain this in Romans, the nations have been shown mercy. And now through the mercy shown to them, Israel will be shown mercy. For God has shut up all in disobedience, the Jews and the Gentiles, so that he can show all mercy, the Jews and the Gentiles. So, so all of this is this playing out. Uh, if we stop here and say no one emasculated or whatever, uh, well, what happens then uh is um uh you know is you just freeze frame the story and you don't see how these instructions play out, you know, oh destroy the Amrite, Hittite, Kingite, Jebisite. Uh are we to utterly destroy them today? Uh no. Why? What changed? Did the character of God change? No. God's purposes for his people, Israel, they didn't listen. They have rebelled. They're going to go into the land, they're going to make vows with his people, and uh, and so all of this is going to progress down the storyline. Uh, and if you don't know the story uh and how the the plot plays out, or even just the whole of Moses' law. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

Because he's gonna end, you know, that that's included provision in the law itself. Absolutely, yeah.

Acts And The Ethiopian Eunuch

Dr. David Klingler 11:16

Uh, and so um, so anyway, so so you know, we'll we'll see places like this where the these things are going to be reversed in God's redemptive plan. Yeah, but it's not yet. We're we're here in the story. Israel's about to take the land, the Moabites are against them, uh, the Ammonites are against them. Uh, how are they to relate to Edom? How are they relate to Egypt? So um uh you shall not detest the Edomite, for he is your brother. This is back to uh chapter 23, verse 7. Um, you shall not detest the Egyptian, because you are aliens in his land. Uh the sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord. Um when you go out against uh as an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from this evil thing. If there is any man among you who is unclean because of some nocturnal omission, then he must go outside the camp. He may not re-enter the camp, but he shall um uh but it shall be when an evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water. Uh at sundown he shall re-enter the camp. Um you shall have a place outside the camp to go there, uh, and you shall have a spade uh among your tools, and you will sit down outside, you'll dig a hole, and you will cover it up, your excrement. So you know all of this was to keep the uh the camp holy. Uh then the Lord your God who walks in the midst of your camp will deliver you and defeat your enemies before you. Therefore, your camp must be holy. Uh, he must not see anything indecent among you, or he will turn away from you. Uh he shall not hand over his master, uh uh you shall not hand over to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you. I'm reminded of uh Philamon here. Uh interesting that the Roman law says you have to return him, and here this law says that you're not to, and Paul sends Philamon back with instructions to send him back to Paul. And you're going, this is interesting. I wonder if this uh chapter 23, verse 15, isn't also playing in the background of Philamon. Um He shall live with you in your midst, uh, and in the place uh which he shall choose any of your towns if uh where it pleases him, you shall not mistreat him. None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, uh, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute. You're not to act like the nations around you. Uh you shall not bring for hire a harlot or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord, your God, for any votive offering, right? You know, uh of course you don't go buy a you know brothel house and bring the offering to bring the brothers to the church, yeah. Well, use the you know evil for good. No, no, no, no, yeah, you're not allowed to do that. Uh you shall not charge interest uh to your countrymen or interest of money or food or anything that uh may be loaned at interest. Why not? Because you love your brother. You can charge the foreigner, but not your countrymen, uh, so that the Lord your God may bless you and all that you uh undertake in the land which you're about to enter to possess it. When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it will be sent in you, for the Lord your God will surely require it of you. If you refrain from sinning, you know, if you let your yes be yes and your no be no, that's fine. Uh but don't make vows. This is what Jesus is going to say. It will be sent in you. You shall be careful to perform all that goes out of your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised. Uh this is going to play out several times in the story. We we talk about this with the the Gibeonites. You know, Israel was uh per you know uh Deuteronomy seven and Deuteronomy twenty to utterly store the Amrite, Hittite, Canaanite.

SPEAKER_03 15:13

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 15:13

You know, the Hivites. Well the Hivites were you know, these were the Gibe Gibeonites were part of the Hivites, and you know, in Joshua chapter nine, they come to Israel acting like they're from a far off place, but they're actually there in the land. And um and Israel makes a covenant with them. Um so now Israel has made a covenant to break the commands of Moses. What do you do now? Do you keep the covenant? Do you go back? There's no good answers now, right? So it would have been better to refrain from vowing. Right? Verse 22. But now that they've vowed, now what do you do? Right. When you jump forward in the towards the end of Samuel, there's this, you know, David is king, and and there's a famine in the land, and David goes to inquire of the Lord what's going on, and says, It is on account of Saul uh that he was putting to death the Gibeonites. Well, what's wrong with that? Because you're not allowed to kill you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

So they're held to their vow. They're held to their vow. Um despite the consequences of their vows. So they're held to it and they have to endure the consequences of it. Yeah, yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 16:19

If you make a vow and then you make another vow, and then you make another vow, okay. Well, what you know it's better to not vow. That's the point, right? Uh but once you make the vow, you have to keep the vow. Don't go back on it. Yeah. Uh, and and so you know, you'll really get yourself in some really bad situations. Uh, I think of one in Judges chapter uh, you know, I guess it's 17, where this the woman has a son, he steals her all of her silver, she pronounces a curse, uh, and then she vows to the Lord to use the 1100 pieces of stolen silver to build a graven image to the Lord. You're going, holy smokes, what are you doing? You know, so she's taking a vow to break the law. Yeah. And then it says she took 200 pieces of silver and gave it, and you're going now, and that's now she broke the vow to keep the vow to break the law. And you're going, well we do it, you know. And so anyway, there's a this is this is ways that the storyteller shows you. Uh, and so when Jesus comes on the scene, he says, Look, it's better to not vow at your yes-be-yes and your no be-no. Uh when you enter your neighbor's vineyard, uh, when you eat uh you can eat grapes until you're satisfied, but you shall not put any into your basket. In other words, this is the provision for your neighbor, but you're not to take advantage of your neighbor and take his crop. When you enter your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the heads of your hand, you shall uh not wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain. This is going to sound like Jesus walking through the field with his disciples. Um and so, you know, all of this was uh Israel's provision for their neighbor, the poor, the widow, the alien, uh, in their midst. But you were not to take advantage of your brother either by you know harvesting his uh taking it all. Yeah, harving it, harvesting his crop. Uh when a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that uh she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of ruse and uh divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of the house. Now, you know, this is Jesus is gonna be asked about this, you know. Moses said, We're allowed to divorce. What do you say? He says, uh, well, that's not how it's supposed to go. Yeah. And this goes back to these, these we call them key clauses. These, if this sin has happened, if this wrong has occurred, then this is the punishment, this is the judgment or the justice. Uh, she leaves his house and she goes and becomes another man's uh wife, and the latter husband uh turns against her and writes a certificate of forest, puts her hand, sends her back to her house. The latter husband dies, who took her to be his husband. The former husband who sent her is not allowed to go back uh uh to be a wife again because he has uh because she has been defiled, it is an abomination before the Lord. In other words, you should have never sent her away in the first place. Yeah. Uh that's the point.

SPEAKER_02 19:21

The fact that she's not finding grace or favor in his eyes is the is kind of the sin number one. Absolutely.

Reversal And Israel’s Jealousy

Dr. David Klingler 19:30

Yeah, and so so this judgment uh has has been, you know, this here's the wrong. And and Jesus is gonna say, it's this Moses allowed divorce because of the hardness of your heart. But that's not how this thing's supposed to go, right? Uh you're not supposed to send your wife away. Right. It shall be sin, uh uh uh you shall not bring uh sin on the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance. When a man takes a new wife, he shall um not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty. Uh he shall be free at home for one year, uh and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken. Um we already talked about that a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 20:13

Yeah. You know, the they need to be all in the battle, not having their eyes back on something else, right?

Holiness In The Camp

Dr. David Klingler 20:20

Yeah, and you know, and of course, you know, the the the battle um, you know, the the the taking the land was was quite uh right uh the uh the uh the the different deal. But anyway, um um no one shall take a handmill or an upper upper uh millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge if a man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen, the sons of Israel. Um all this is gonna go back to care, you know, how do you care for your brother, right? What does it look like to care for your brother? First of all, don't kidnap him, right? That's a story. And deals violently with him or sells, then he shall be put to death. Uh that thief shall die. You shall purge the evil from among you. Uh you shall be careful against infection of leprosy. You shall be diligent to observe according to the all of the Levitical priests teach you, as I've commanded you. You shall be careful to do it. Remember uh what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way as you come out of Egypt. Uh when you make your neighbors a loan of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge. Uh you shall remain outside, uh, and the man whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you. If he's a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge. When the sun goes down, you shall surely return the pledge to him, that he may sleep with his cloak and bless you. Uh and it will be righteousness uh for you before the Lord your God. In other words, you're to be looking out for your brother all the time. All the time. Right? Even if you're loaning to him in a business deal. Yeah, you're always looking out for your brother. You're not looking out for your own best interests, but for the interest of others as well. Like Paul says that somewhere, right? When the sun goes down, you shall surely return the pledge, right? Because you're looking out for your brother. You shall not oppress the hired servant, the poor or the needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of the aliens who's in the land in your towns. You shall give him his wedges, uh wages on the day before the sun sets, for he is poor, and he has set his heart on it, so that he will cry out against you to the Lord, and it will become sin in you. In other words, um, you know, the poor man is not to fund your finances, right? If he's done work, you make sure that you're you pay him immediately. You know, you don't say, Hey, I'll pay you in thirty days. You know, it's something like that. Um fathers shall not to be put to death for their sons, nor sons be put to death for their fathers. Everyone shall be put to death on his own sin. You shall not pervert the justice, do an alien or an orphan or a widow, um, nor take a widow's garments and pledge. Uh in other words, you're look out for the orphan, the widow, the alien, the brother, the poor. Um you know, back to the the fathers put to death. What about the you know, the the the judgment of the fathers would pour on the sons to the third and fourth generation? Back to Exodus 34. Well, what's happening here is because of Israel's disobedience and expulsion from the land, their sons are going to realize the judgment placed on their fathers, right? So this is why the fathers would have teach the sons. But if the son commits a sin, commits a crime, does something, you don't judge the father, you judge the one who did it, right? Um and so there's just quite a bit of really good um, you know, you don't call the parents in for something the kid did. Right. Or vice versa. Um but you shall uh remember uh so you so you do not pervert justice, do the alien, the orphan, or the widow, uh taking the widow's garments and pledge, but you shall remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you uh from there, therefore I am commanding you to do this thing, right? So you're to look out for the orphan, the widow, and the alien. Well, how do you look out for the orphan, the widow, and the alien, but utterly destroy the Amorite, Hittite, Canaanite, Jeff? Well, this was a mixed multitude that came out of Egypt.

SPEAKER_02 24:17

Out of Egypt, yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 24:18

Uh yeah, out of Egypt going to the land, uh, and there were going to be aliens and orphans and widows in your midst. And we're gonna see these, you know, with Ruth and several stories. We're gonna see this come into the story. Uh here's another Ruth passage. When you reap your harvest in your field, and you've forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back for it. It is uh for the alien, for the orphan, for the widow, in only in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all of your work and all of your hands. When you beat the olive tree, you shall not go over it, you know, you you shall not do it again. Uh it shall be for the orphan uh and for the alien and for the widow. When you gather grapes in your vineyard, you shall not go over it again. It shall be for the alien for the orphan and for the widow. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, therefore I am commanding you to do this thing. That's clear. Uh and so again, there was always provision in the law for the brother. Right? This was your field, but your field was being blessed by the Lord not only for you, but so that you could care for your brother. Yeah, that's good. So when he was walking through the field, he could, you know, eat from the grain.

SPEAKER_02 25:31

So don't be too thorough in your yeah, in your efficiency.

Dr. David Klingler 25:34

And I love uh I love how Boaz's uh response when uh when Roof's out there and he's you know he's back up the wagon and throw stuff off. Once it hits the ground, it's hers, right? And and so he's looking out for the orphan, the widow, the alien. He's looking out for those that he can bless with what he's been doing.

SPEAKER_02 25:52

There's no there's no law against cheating the system that way.

Dr. David Klingler 25:55

Yeah, that's right. Looking out an extra special for your brother. Exactly. You could move your your boundary marker towards your brother, you just couldn't move it towards you. Right. That's right. And your brother was supposed to come out and say, no, no, no, what are you doing? I've got plenty. Yeah, right. You know, and he was arguing, no, no, move it back. Outdo one another and showing honor. Yeah, that's that's exactly right. It's kind of like those little yeah chipmunks in the cartoons or whatever it was. I don't remember what they were, but yeah, it's good uh you know um you know, but but this was to to to be uh how it was supposed to be. And it because the Lord your God was gonna cause the rains to fall and the crops to grow, and uh and so you didn't need to worry about food and clothing uh because you're in the kingdom and the Lord was blessing you in the land. Yeah. But if you're rebelling against the Lord, there's not gonna be enough food and clothing, and you know, and so this reminds us again of the Sermon on the Mount. Yeah. Uh seek ye first his kingdom and his righteousness, all these things will be added unto you. The rain's gonna fall, the crops are gonna grow, and you're gonna have plenty. Um, but if you're rebelling against the Lord and you're not caring for your brother, and you're not caring for the orphan and the widow and the alien, then the rain's not gonna fall, and there's not gonna be enough for you. He's not gonna care for you yet. Right.

SPEAKER_03 27:07

Yep.

Slaves, Purity, And Idolatry

Dr. David Klingler 27:08

Uh your vineyards aren't gonna produce for you, your your fields are not gonna produce for you. Right? So care for the orphan and the widow and the alien, and in this you will be blessed, and the Lord will cause the rain to fall on your field as well.

SPEAKER_03 27:20

That's good.

Dr. David Klingler 27:20

And so all of this is gonna fit together, and um so we'll see this play out uh repeatedly throughout the story. And so when we get to the prophets, you'll see a lot of this exhortation. Plead the case for the orphan, for the widow, for the you're not looking out for your brother. You're not well, how do we know you're not looking out for you because you're not pleading the case for the orphan, the widow, and the alien. Um this wasn't you know just social justice, this was lack of care for the brother. Yeah, yeah. Uh, and that was the problem. It was you only care for yourself, you don't care for your brother. Um that and so you know, you don't love the Lord because you don't love your brother. Yeah, and you're not caring for you, not looking out for because this is what the Lord does. So you're to do the same. Uh and so you'll see this show out in the uh show up in the uh in the prophets as well. Yeah, for sure. For sure.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

Well, again, these details just uh continue to capture me and and just continue to uh highlight the importance of of these laws and understanding the intent of the law and what God desires Israel to do um and how they are supposed to play this out. And again, continues to provide the glasses and the framework for which we're gonna interpret a lot of the details in this story moving forward through the Old Testament, New Testament. So continue to dive in with us. We're gonna uh pick it up next time in uh chapter 25. So we hope that you'll join us for that next time.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

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