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Day 56: Jealous Husbands (2023)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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The Plus One Theory of Education

In Numbers chapter 5 what do we have? We have the occasion, the subtitle of after we talked about confession or restitution. And that's how it's described because it says if a man is even jealous of his wife and he does not have any proof that she has been unfaithful to him. This whole section can strike us, especially modern readers who have kind of better sensibilities. But this is part of the genius, even if it's problematic for us.

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