First Passover After Egypt - Numbers 9:1-12; Numbering of the Israelites - Numbers 1:1-54, 2:1-34
Gandalf and Moses -- All good stories have the same origin.
We've finished Genesis and Exodus. Now the text jumps around a bit. That's what I like about the Daily Bible's arrangement of scripture. It reads like a novel because its organized chronologically according to a story line. And that isn't a disservice to the Bible. It is a story -- a wonderful narrative with heroes and foes, climax and denouement, symbolism, allusion and metaphor, plots and subplots, motifs and themes, rich with characters and loaded with meaning. It is the story that breathes meaning into and stands as the basis for all our other stories from Ulysses to Arthur, Gandalf to Obi-Wan.
Wit the Passover in today's reading, we're now one year out from when the Israelites left Egypt. They left behind the wealth and riches of the Nile Delta for the empty, God-centered dependency of the Sinai Desert. What are their hopes and their worries? What did they suppose would happen that didn't? I'm certain there is as much disappointment as there is excitement, as much fear as faith, as much uncertainty as assurance.
Do we really want God to make our laws and lead our leaders? It would be our salvation. But can we live with it? Watch this theocracy unfold... and then unravel.
My post last year on this date.
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