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Blessings and Curses
Pretty long and specific and very wonderful list of Blessings. The Curses for disobedience appear to be exact opposite of these Blessings. No in between. One or the other of these happened to Israel.…
Created 3 months ago
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Marriage, Virginity & Women
The emphasis seems to be on a girl coming to marriage a virgin. Was this just as important for the man to be a virgin? It doesn't seem to be so. Why when a girl was discovered not to be a virgin is there…
Created 3 months ago
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Balaam and donkey
Two things I've never understood Why "God’s anger was kindled because he went;" when God had told Balaam to go. And why Balaam doesn't freak out when a donkey speaks to him. Did this happen often?
Created 4 months ago
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Indulgences?
"Atonement money" sounds like Catholic indulgences. Maybe that's where they got the idea, eh?
Created 5 months ago
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No other gods before me
You shall have no other elohim paniym --- Paniym is "face, presence, in front of" --- Where I've always taken this to mean before me in importance, it could be a more physical sense and mean "in my face"…
Created 5 months ago
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Sanctify first born
"Whatever opens the womb" --- Males are specified when it comes to humans, but what if it was a female child that "opened the womb"?
Created 5 months ago
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Terror of God
Chittah is the Hebrew word. The only use of this word is in this verse. Just wondered if the "Terror of God" was some kind of being. Hard to figure when this is not used elsewhere. There is Gen 31:42…
Created 5 months ago
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Foreign gods
Jacob tells his household to put away all their foreign/strange gods. They were going to meet with God. Why were they allowed to have these in Jacob's household in the first place?
Created 5 months ago
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Going to meet with God Pt 2
Previously, I noted that Rebekah wentto inquire of YHWH, as if there was a place to go. Here Jacob says, "Surely YHWH is in this place and I didn't. know." Was not God omnipresent? Were there special…
Created 5 months ago
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Going to meet with God
Rebekah wentto inquire of YHWH. Where did she go? Did they have a special place to meet with God? We pray where we are. Of course, unlike us, she got a verbal answer right back. Go/Went is in the Hebrew.…
Created 5 months ago
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Cry of distress from Sodom
Outcry --- za'aq --- could mean a distress call. Who is putting out the distress call from Sodom?
Created 5 months ago
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Terah and family leave Ur
No explanation (at least here) as to why they are leaving Ur. And why they go towards Canaan. Had YHWH already spoken to Abram at this point?
Created 6 months ago
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Curses
Is there anything in YHWH God's statements to the serpent, Adam and Eve that would indicate that these curses would go beyond the 3 of them?
Created 6 months ago
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Mayim and Shomayim
Interesting that the Hebrew word for "waters" is in the word for Heaven. I wonder what Sho means. Maybe above? But then it is not the mayim above the firmament (raki'a) that is called Shomayim, but the…
Created 6 months ago
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when the time of the holy people
these things will happen when the time of the holy people will have been shattered
Created 8 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2011-10-08
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make your election secure
so they had control of the surety of their election? there were things they could DO to make this so?
Created 8 months ago
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Waiting for salvation
Incomplete salvation --- they were still waiting (eagerly) for Jesus for salvation. Though they had been washed in the blood and forgiven, salvation was still to come on the return of Jesus.
Created 8 months ago
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simplicity in Christ
easy to have mind corrupted looking for more complicated spiritual life? preaching another Jesus. one with more rules?
Created 8 months ago
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unequally yoked
in what way were they doing this? being in business with? eating foods from their idol worship? how yoked?
Created 8 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-07-27
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-07-27
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Joshua 19:9
Joshua 19:9 (NKJV)
The inheritance of the children of Simeon was included in the share of the children of Judah, for the share of the children of Judah was too much for them. Therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of that people.Created 10 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2011-07-21
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-07-21
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-07-11
