Bible Sprint Day 3

Questions:

1. How much is in an omer?
1. Ex 16:36 – 1/10 of 3 measures
2. Is Exodus 18:6-12 Jethro’s conversion?
3. Is Ex 21:37 part of Zaccheus’s repentance?
4. Exodus 26:27 What is meant by “toward the sea”? Wouldn’t that change?
5. How many sons did Levi have? Where is a genealogy of Levi?
6. What percentage of the people was killed in Ex 32:28?

Observations:

1. Ex 17:5-7 Moses strikes the rock because he is told to be.
2. Ex 18:6 Moses didn’t have his wife with him the whole time he was back in Egypt.
3. Exodus 20:20 is a verse to remember.
4. Exodus 21:23-24 “eye for an eye” is actually a restraint. (This observation is not my own but I figured it is worth noting since most people don’t understand it that way.)
5. Exodus 23:22a First use of “special people,” “royal priesthood,” “holy nation.”
1. Israel was to be a priest to the nations yet had their own priests. This is similar to how the priesthood in the Church now functions.
6. Exodus 32:4 Aaron made the calf with a tool and in 32:34 he says it “appeared from the fire.”
7. Exodus 38:22 There is a mention of Korah’s rebellion which doesn’t happen in the narrative until Numbers 16. The censers were melted down and made into pegs for the Tabernacle.
8. Psalm 50 (51) refers to Leviticus 4:1-12.

Bible Sprint Day 2

Questions:

1. What is the connection between Genesis 39:12 and the naked man in Mark? Is there one?
2. Genesis 49:31 – Why the change to a first person singular pronoun?
3. What connection is there between the slaughter of the innocents in Exodus 1 and the slaughter of the innocents in Matthew?
4. What is the significance of the three signs of Moses in Exodus 4?

Observations:

1. In Exodus 7, God says to wave the rod over the water and Aaron strikes the water. Later, God says speak to the rock and Moses strikes it. One is acceptable, the other is not.
1. Ex7 strike/wave/strike
2. Exodus 7 “strike” with blood, “smite” with frogs.
3. Ex 12:43-51 Only members of Israel could eat the OT Paschal meal. Only members of the New Israel may eat the NT Paschal meal.
4. Ex 13:1-2, 11-16 Verses to remember for later
1. God claims the lives of the firstborn of all who were in Egypt for the first Pascha. The Egyptians and their livestock he kills while the faithful Israelites he gives the chance to redeem their firstborn
1. Israelites were proven faithful by complying with God’s commands, esp. the doorposts.
5. Exodus 14:19 There were both an angel and a cloud going before Israel.

Bible Sprint Day 1

I'm getting this up late (I'm setting the date to the correct one for record keeping purposes) and I'm already behind but that is to be expected on the first week since we have services every night. I fully expect to have the entire text read on time so that I can concentrate on services for Holy Week. Anyway, notes, notes, notes.

Date (Day 1):  2/26/2012

Passage: Genesis 1 – Genesis 31

Prayer before reading:

Illumine our hearts, O Master Who loves mankind, with the pure light of Your divine knowledge. Open the eyes of our mind to the understanding of Your gospel teachings. Implant also in us the fear of Your blessed commandments, that trampling down all carnal desires, we may enter upon a spiritual manner of living, both thinking and doing such things as are well-pleasing unto You. For You are the illumination of our souls and bodies, O Christ our God, and unto You we ascribe glory, together with Your Father, Who is from everlasting, and Your all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Questions:

1. How significant is the fact that there are 2 creation accounts?
2. Gen 2:9 “tree of learning the knowledge of good and evil.” How close is this to the Greek? How close to the Hebrew?
3. 2:17 “you shall die by death” What kind of death is meant here since they don’t actually die when they eat the fruit?
4. Gen 10:25 What does Peleg mean?
5. Why doesn’t pharaoh take back the gifts in Gen 12?
6. What is the point of Abraham and Isaac lying about their wives? Why were they blessed for it?

Observations:

1. Genesis 1:7 “…and man became a living soul.” Man is a unit, not a division of body and soul.
2. 3:8 The way this is worded makes it appear that they have climbed the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
3. God tells Cain he is responsible for his brother before the murder and Cain asks later if he is his brother’s keeper.
4. Terah and others in Gen 11 conceive well after they are of normal age but Sara thinks she is too old later. Also, the life spans are diminishing. This plays in to the statement of God in Gen. 6.
5. Mamre, as in “the oaks of Mamre,” is a person not a place. Cf. Gen 14:13
6. The Abel/Cain story is the first instance of the younger/older sibling inversion like Jacob/Esau, Joseph/Brothers, Ephraim/Manasseh.
7. Rachel is a shepherdess. There seems to be a theme of shepherds being righteous.

Prayer after reading:

Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servants depart in peace according to Thy word. For mine eyes have seen Thy salvation which Thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples; a light to enlighten the gentiles and to be the glory of Thy people Israel.