Reading the Bible Through

Deuteronomy 17 - 19   Here we see that Israel will want a king. I think this is the first time we see that.  When it talks about false prophets here, I am reminded that we will see quite a few off them telling kings what the kings want to hear.  When I listen today to the part about witnesses at the end of the reading, I am reminded that Jesus was testified against by false witnesses. I am also realizing that these laws about who must die/capital punishment are part of what lead to death on the cross to fulfill what is done over and over by animal sacrifice. 

Leviticus 20 - 22   I was wondering if there was any current religion of Molech. A quick google search reports debate about if Molech was a god or a specific form of sacrifice. I guess the answer to my question is no.  If a man marries his brother's wife, he has dishonored his brother. But in the time of Jacob, we read that his grandson's died because they did not fulfill the duty of to the brother-in-law to their brother's widow and produce children for him. I wonder if this practice was called something different than marriage? Still, in looking at that passage, a man couldn't marry a living brother's wife because then she would have 2 husbands. This culture had multiple wives, but not multiple husbands.  Sacrifices of the food of God. I find this an interesting idea. It had not crossed my mind.  No man, of Aaron's descendants, with a "defect" may present food offerings to the Lord. Definitely, different from today's stress on inclusion. Why coul...