Reading the Bible Through

Numbers 27 - 29   I really like what happens with  Zelophehad's daughters, to me it shows a movement toward equality for women. 

  Leviticus 23 - 25 In 23:39, the festival is to be celebrated for 7 days. In our culture, I cannot think of any recurring 7 day festival. It seems to me that we are focused on getting back to business rather than taking time off. Christmas Day actually starts the 12 days of the Christmas season, but, it has become the end day.  I have always found blasphemy difficult to define/understand. So I looked it up:  Blasphemy The Year of Jubilee seems to be a kind of economic system. I don't think the Year of Jubilee was ever celebrated/observed.  "help them  as you would a foreigner and stranger" This reminds me of the exact opposite behavior of Sodom and Gomorrah regarding Lot's visitors. They did not extend help and hospitality. 

Leviticus 14 - 16   This passage continues with rituals, many of which are just plain gross by today's standards: killing animals and then doing things with the blood. I have been thinking about rituals and the meaning behind them. We need both. For me, much of the meaning behind the rituals are lost, but I do glimpse the holy sanctity of God.