(One Year Bible Blog post & readings)

Another hard story of vengance and brutality from Torah. If these are just parables, it is easier (though still not easy) to accept the symbolism of death and the need to deal ruthlessly with those things that would lead you astray. But if it is history, and if these were real people slain in ages past, then this remains complex and difficult. The symbolism is obscured by the violence.

++ Lord, have mercy ++

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