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#Exodus 20:16The eighth commandment You shall not bear false witness. Despite nearly two millennia of interpretation, this commandment isn’t just some fancy biblical language for the broad category of “lying.”
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#Exodus 20:12The fifth commandmentHonor your father and mother. What could be more straightforward than that? Well...I’m of the belief that this commandment refers primarily to post-mortem care (and feeding! probably),
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#Exodus 20:8-11The SabbathIt was a staple of early Christian interpretation - and it remains so today - that of all the hundreds of laws in the Pentateuch, the only ones
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#Exodus 20:7The third commandment Has any translation been more abstract, compared to its original sense, than “you shall not take the Lord’s name in vain”? Take it? What does that
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#Exodus 20:4-6The second commandment Aniconism! Or not! The Hebrew syntax is a little unclear here, so the aniconism reading is forgivable. But it doesn’t really fit the historical setting, and
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Thinking more about this. There are two basic types of articles: those that intend to change *what* we think, and those that try to change *how* we think. The former
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#Exodus 15:1-18The Song of the SeaI’m honestly not entirely sure how to do this in just a few tweets: multiple entire monographs have been written about this poem, and there
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#Exodus 7:25-8:11The FrogsLike the blood, here too we have two similar stories intertwined, but easily separated now that we know what each source is up to in this section, and
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#Exodus 4:24-26The Bridegroom of BloodIt’s like the title of a B horror movie, and honestly it’s just as incoherent. One of the most confounding episodes in the entire Pentateuch. Almost
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#Exodus 2:1-10The birth of MosesThere is SO MUCH going on in these ten verses it’s hard to know where to start. Okay, let’s start with which story we’re in. The
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#Genesis 26:34-35Esau marries a couple of HittitesTwo nearly throwaway verses - as if Esau’s personal life, or the names of his Hittite wives, are interesting - but maybe a useful
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#Genesis 19:1-11The sin of Sodom.It’s lack of hospitality. Not homosexuality - lack of hospitality. The story isn’t about sexual preference. It’s not a prooftext for the Bible or God being
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