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Deuteronomy 14:1–16:17 (Food and Festivals)

The Two Testaments

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The Relationship Between Deuteronomy 14 and Leviticus 25

Deuteronomy 14 through 16 is one of the most difficult passages to understand. The logic of why you eat what you can eat has been like something that stumped readers of this text all the way back, says Rabbi Michael Goldfarb. There are tensions between debt slave liberation laws and other laws that touch on debt slave liberation in the Torah," he adds. "When you get into that level of detail, I tend to get bewildered"

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