Explore the Period: Jesus' Life and Death: 5 BCE - 30 CE

Deuteronomy 33:2-3 – God from Everywhere

Deuteronomy 29:14-21, 29 – Future Generations

Deuteronomy 24:6, 10-15, 17-22 – Economic Justice for the Poor

Deuteronomy 24:7 – Prohibition of Enslaving/Kidnapping

Deuteronomy 23:15-16 – Prohibition Against Returning Escaped Enslaved People

Deuteronomy 22:6-7 – The Least Important Commandment

Deuteronomy 21:10-14 – Limitations of War-Rape

Deuteronomy 21:1-9 – Unknown Murderer

Deuteronomy 19:1-21 – Cities of Refuge and Honest Witnesses

Deuteronomy 18:9-14 – Prohibition of Magic and Spiritualism

Deuteronomy 17:14-20 – Royal Authority Limited

Deuteronomy 17:8-13 – Priests & Judge

Deuteronomy 16:18-20 – Officers & Judges

Deuteronomy 16:9-17 – Passover, Weeks, and Tabernacles: The Three Feasts 

Deuteronomy 15:1-18 – The Sabbatical Year

Deuteronomy 14:22-29 – Sharing the Tithes

Deuteronomy 13:1-18 – Warning Against Idolatry

Deuteronomy 11:8-17 – Promise, Obedience, and Ecology

Deuteronomy 11:1-7 – Which Generation?

Deuteronomy 10:14-19 – Orphan, Widow, and Foreigner

Deuteronomy 10:12-13 – What Does God Require? 

Deuteronomy 9:1-29 – Not Your Righteousness, but Their Wickedness

Deuteronomy 6:10-25 – Warning Against Complacency

Deuteronomy 4:12-19, 23-28 – Prohibition Against Figurative Art

Deuteronomy 3:23-28, 4:21-22 – Moses’ Death outside the Holy Land

Deuteronomy 2:1-23 – Peace with Distant Family: Edom, Moab, and Ammon

Deuteronomy 1:20-46 – Rehearsing Failures

Deuteronomy 1:9-17 – Other Leaders

Deuteronomy 1:6-8 – Contact and Conflict

Numbers 36 – The Daughters of Zelophehad, Part 2

Numbers 35 – Cities for Levites and Cities of Refuge

Numbers 32 – Tribal Lands East of the Jordan

Numbers 31:16 – Balaam Succeeds

Numbers 30 – Women’s Vows

Numbers 28:16-29:40 — The Holidays

Numbers 27:12-23 – Joshua Commissioned

Numbers 26 — The Second Census

Numbers 16 – Korah’s Rebellion

Numbers 15:14-16 – One Law for Foreigners and Natives

Numbers 12 — Punishing Miriam

Numbers 4 – Levite Duties

Numbers 2 – Setting Up The Camp

Numbers 1:47-54 – Levites

Numbers 1:1-44 – The Census

Joshua 24:15 – “As for me and my house…”

Joshua 13-21 – Distribution of the Land

Joshua 10:1-15 – The Sun Stands Still

Joshua 8:30-35 – Covenant Renewal

Joshua 7 – The Sin of Achan

Joshua 6 – The Fall of Jericho

Joshua 3-5 – The Crossing of the Jordan River and the End of Wilderness Wandering

Joshua 2:1-24 – The Spies and Rahab

Joshua 1:1-9 – The Commissioning of Joshua

Deuteronomy 34:1-12 – The Death of Moses

Deuteronomy 31:19-30; 32:1-43 – The Song of Moses

Deuteronomy 30:15-20 – Choose Life!

Deuteronomy 30:9-14 – You Can Do It!

Deuteronomy 27:1-26 – Covenant Ratification

Deuteronomy 26:1-11 – First Fruits

Deuteronomy 25:5-10 – Levirate Marriage

Deuteronomy 20:1-20 – Holy War

Deuteronomy 18:15-20 – A Prophet Like Moses

Deuteronomy 16:1-8 – Passover/Unleavened Bread

Deuteronomy 14:2-21 – Clean and Unclean Animals

Deuteronomy 12:1-7 – One Central Shrine

Deuteronomy 8:7-18 – Remember the LORD Your God

Deuteronomy 7:7-11 – Because God Loved Them

Deuteronomy 6:1-9 – The “Shema”

Deuteronomy 5:21 – Coveting

Deuteronomy 5:20 – False Witness

Deuteronomy 5:19 – Theft

Deuteronomy 5:18 – Adultery

Deuteronomy 5:17 – Murder

Deuteronomy 5:16 – Parents

Deuteronomy 5:12-15 – Sabbath

Deuteronomy 5:7-11 – Improper Use of God’s Personal Name

Deuteronomy 5:7-10 – Total Commitment to God

Deuteronomy 5:6-21 – The Decalogue

Deuteronomy 5:6 – “I Am the LORD Your God”

Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 – The Law as the Source of Israel’s Life and Wisdom

Deuteronomy 1:1-5 – Introduction to Deuteronomy

Numbers 27:1-11 – Inheritance for the Daughters of Zelophehad

Numbers 25:1-13 – Sin and Atonement: The Baal of Peor

Numbers 23:19 – God Is Not a Human Being

Numbers 22:22-35 – Balaam and His Talking Donkey

Numbers 21:4-9 – The Bronze Serpent

Numbers 20:2-13 – Water from the Rock

Numbers 17:1-12 – Aaron’s Blooming Staff

Numbers 15:22-31 – Intentional and Unintentional Sins

Numbers 14:1-25 – A Forty-Year Sentence

Numbers 13:21-24 – Grapes, Pomegranates, and Figs

Numbers 11:16-30 – The Seventy Elders

Numbers 11:7-9 – Bread from Heaven

Numbers 6:22-27 – The Priestly Benediction

Numbers 6:1-21 – The Nazirite Vow

Numbers 5:11-31 – An Ordeal to Test Suspected Infidelity

Numbers 3:11-13 – The Levites as Substitutes for the Firstborn

Leviticus 25 – The Sabbatical Year and the Year of Jubilee

Leviticus 19:18 – “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself”

Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 – Laws about Homosexual Acts

Leviticus 17-27 – The Holiness Code

Leviticus 16 and 23 – The Day of Atonement and the Liturgical Calendar

Leviticus 10:1-7 – The Deaths of Nadab and Abihu

Leviticus 11 – Clean and Unclean Animals

Leviticus 1-7 – Instructions about Sacrifices

Exodus 34:6-7 – A God Merciful and Gracious

Exodus 33:19 – I Will Be Gracious to Whom I Will Be Gracious

Exodus 32:7-14 – Whose People?

Exodus 32:1-6 – The Golden Calf

Exodus 29:38-46 – I Will Meet with You

Exodus 22:21-27 – The Cry of the Vulnerable

Exodus 20:1-17 – The Ten Commandments

Exodus 19:5-6 – A Priestly Kingdom and a Holy Nation

Exodus 14:13 – Don’t Be Afraid, Stand Firm!

Exodus 12:26 – What Do You Mean by This Observance?

Exodus 9:27-35 – I Have Sinned

Exodus 8:16-19 – Gnats Everywhere

Exodus 6:2-8 – My People, Your God

Exodus 5:22-23 – Lament of the Leader

Exodus 4:21-23 – Moses, Pharoah, and God

Exodus 3:1-10 – Called to Bring Out

Exodus 1:8-14 – Pharaoh’s Rage

Listening to Balaam’s Donkey (and Other Outsiders)

Endings and Beginnings

This Moment Needs a Song

Two Difficult Conversations in the Bible

Bible Study: Relating to God, as We Relate to Each Other

God Made Visible: Exodus 24-40

5.102: How Did the 12 Tribes Enter the Promised Land?

5.101: Why Are There So Many Things that Can Get You Executed in Leviticus? Isn’t that a Bit of Overkill?

4.99: Is it BCE and CE, or BC and AD?

Moses

Ancient Near East

Exodus

Southern Canaan

Covenant Renewal: Joshua 24

Joshua’s Renewal

Rahab: The Book of Joshua

Yom Kippur: Leviticus

How to Read Leviticus

Laws of Ancient Israel: Leviticus

The Most Famous Passage in Leviticus

Year of Jubilee: Leviticus

Reading Leviticus

God Values Life: Leviticus 17