Friday, March 2, 2012

Laws regarding marriage, divorce and sexual relations are described in today's reading taken from Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.  They are quite clear and very specific.  The text that jumped out at me was Leviticus 18 where God explains why he forbids certain acts:  "Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.  Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants."  Relevant words for us in 2012!