OT- bith211

What is Earth Like

Formless, void, empty, darkness

Six Days of Creation

Light, Sky, land/Vegetation, Star/moon/sun, birds and sea creatures, land and humans

Genesis 1 vs Genesis 2

1: God’s power, speech, order, creation. 2: Humanity, Garden of Eden, the first command, humans relationship, woman (1. Broad framework 2. Humanity and garden)

What did Eve say differently

She says can’t touch it and lest you die. God said you can’t eat it and you will surely die.

Genealogies Gen. 4 vs Gen 5.

4: Cain’s descendants and increasing in violence 5: adam to seth to noah

Humanity’s wickedness

Cain, Lamech, Pre-flood activities, Tower of Babel

Similarities with Gen. 1-2 and 9

Blesses humanity, be fruitful and multiply, gives humanity responsibility over creation

Abraham’s promise

land, progeny, blessing

Righteousness

Being in a right relationship with God

How was Abraham righteoues

He believed the Lord, Gen 15:6

Covenant

-Formal relationship established by God with specific promises and obligations.

-Covenant of circumcision

-Set a part his people’s birth process

Abraham’s main story conflict

He has no child, but then is given Isaac. But then again, is asked to sacrifice his child.

Levrite marriage

If your brother dies, then you are to take his wife and continue his lineage.

-Onan died because he didn’t fulfill this law with Tamar

Why did God harden the heart of Pharoah

To exalt his victory over Pharoah and Egypt

Passover

-First month of the year, 10th day

-lamb, sheep, or goat, with bitter leaves and unleavened bread

-Eat in a hurry, ready to leave in a hurry

5 different sacrifices

burnt, guilt, sin, fellowship, grain

Burnt

Complete dedication to God. Whole animal was burned

Meat not to feed God, but to deliver God your best and firstfruit offerings

Grain

-Gift/tribute to God, to give thanks

-Bread is made without yeast

Fat

It goes to God, it is the most pleasing aroma

guilt offering

Deals with specific wrongdoing/debt

Involves restitution + sacrifice.

fellowship offering

Worshiper could eat part of the sacrifice

fellowship, thanksgiving and peace

sin offering

Sin offering = every sin before God

Nadab and Abihu

They died for offering strange fire to God, and they were sons of Aaron. God is a serious God about the rules and order.

Bernidhar

In the wilderness

Nazarite Vow

To consecrate yourself to the Lord for a period of time

1. no wine

2. no cutting of hair

3. no dead bodies

Nazarite = set apart for the lord

Who were counted in the census

20+ men who could fight, no levites

Bethel

Jacob ecounters God at Bethel.

God does not abandon Jacob even after he deceives his father. Jacob goes there for worship, alone time and intimacy with God.

Pharaoh’s Dreams

7 healthy/fat cows and 7 healthy/thin grains

Judah

He receives a blessing of leadership, kingship, lion, because of his repentance

Isreal’s identity

A kingdom of priest, a holy nation, treasured possession

Where are levitical laws given

They are given by God to Moses. The tabernacle. Isreal is at Mount sinai

Animals to be clean

Chew the cud and divided hoof

Feast of Booths

Festival lasts seven days, eigth day of rest

Who owns the land

God

Uncleanliness

People who were unclean were set outside of camp, because God is in the midst of Isreal. He is Holy

The Sotah

Test of a women who might of commited adultery

-Curse if they did, no curse if they didn’t

-Curse: abdomen pain, won’t be able to have kids,

Rebellion against God

1. Complain about Hardships- they burn

2. Complain about manna - they get quail and get plagued

3. miriam and aaron don’t like moses’s cushite wife - miriam gets leprosy

4. spies are fearful - die in wilderness

5. Korah’s rebellion - earth eats them

6. Water - Moses strikes rock instead of commanding it. Moses is no longer going into promised land

7. Bronze serpent

Horeb

Mount Sinai

Sabbath

In exodus uphold the sabbath because God rested

In dueteronomy uphold the sabbath because you were once slaves working 24/7, but now you are free. God has freed you, so rest on sunday. You are under God’s commands not Egypts

Centralized worship

The canaanites worshiped their own god at various local shrines and high places. No, come together all 12 tribes and be unified and prevent mising different relgious beliefs and practices.

Rules for Isreal’s King

Avoid

1. many horses

2. many wives

3. escessive silver and gold

He must write a copy of the law and read it regularly. King is not above God

Scapegoat

goat that symbolically carries Isreal’s sins away into the wilderness