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Yahweh’s Judgment and Mercy – Numbers E5

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The Ground Is Opening Its Mouth to Scoop the Blood of Abel

The ground opening up is echoing both the innocent blood of abel, human rebellion, violence and rivalry leading to the death of the innocent. But then also, the ground split open is an image of what happened before the collapse of the cosmos in the flood. So all the allusions to the flood narrative and to cain are trying to show the that this is actually a cosmic disruption and rebellion within israel. And so when we see dathon and avi ram with their families at the door of their tents, just says they were all swallowed up by the oath.

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