I forgot the context of all these rules we've been reading. God coming down in a ball of fire dictating them to Moses seems to give them a little more weight. It's interesting to me that God did a very physical and evident transcription for the Israelites, but for us he used men to write in their own words. In general, I'm just always a bit perplexed at the relationship with Israel, so different.

Congratulations on another Bible read through. As I was reading your comment about the oath. Not that we shouldn't try, but isn't one of the primary messages of the entire Old Testament that we are simply incapable of living up to God's standard and to show us how desperately we need Christ?