
Exodus 26-31: On Chip & Joanna Gaines’ Tour through the Furniture of Faith (Bible Talk, Ep. 32)
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Is There a Market Economy in the Temple?
In Deuteronomy, it is outlined that if you live a long way from Jerusalem, you can exchange your animal for money where you live and then bring that money up to Jerusalem and buy an animal there. And so this kind of thing is unavoidable when you have these kinds of exchanges taking place. I think that these people would have been reasonable about how they went about seeking God's forgiveness through the sacrificial system. In mass market arose where you could have a lot of animals that you can sell to people who needed them. So maybe part of the reason why there was such an enterprise that had grown up around the temple is that people were sort of... Being cheap about that.
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