Leviticus!

Made it through Exodus. All those chapters with directions on how to build things got a little repetitive and I am very glad we don't sacrifice animals anymore. I am still reading Psalms & now parts of Proverbs to mix things up a bit. Psalms are short, but difficult to understand. I have read 221 chapters so far, which keeps me on track for just less than 5 ch a day, 4.7 now.

Psalms & Proverbs

Psalms are short but they are hard to read. I did a bit of research and am trying to view them as songs but they don't always make sense to me. I'm glad they are short because it is going to be a long 150 chapters as it is...

Also I should have known this about Proverbs, I'm sure I did in the past at some point, but did you know it is just a long list of proverbs? Like chapter after chapter of proverbs, multiple proverbs in each verse.... That one I am going to have to intersperse with other books, you can only read so many proverbs at once. But it will be fun to learn some new ones. Maybe I can try to keep track of ones I know and new ones I like.

Personal responsibility

Back in Moses' day there was lots of personal responsibility required of the people, some of which would be nice to see in our day. I am not a fan of the whole you can beat your servants and as long as they don't die it's ok because you own them but I do like if you beat someone up and they have to take time off to recover then you need to pay for $ lost. I like that people are also expected to be responsible for their animals.

Ex 21- If your animal kills a person then your animal is put to death and you get nothing. If your animal is known to gore people in the past and you don't take measures to prevent it from harming people and it kills someone you and the animal are put to death. I don't want people to get the death penalty for having a vicious dog or bull but I would like to see more personal responsibility on this. Often it seems people blame the city or animal control for not putting the animal down. The owner should be responsible too if they knew the animal was dangerous. And if your animal kills another animal then you sell yours and split the money and the dead animal (skins, meat, seems to be based on food animals). But if your animal kills another animal and you knew it was dangerous and didn't do anything to keep it in then you pay 100% for the dead animal and you get the dead one.

The plan

I think I made it very close to 39 last week. Just got through Exodus 9 this morning. It has been fun reading the story about Joseph & now Moses. They are ones that I know pretty well but there are some details I didn't remember that I am picking up on as I read it again.

The plan is to keep reading where I am, but if I have a time crunch while at school I am going to read in Psalms. I was flipping through and they have quite a few short chapters. To read the first 35 chapters (1 week worth) would only be 22 pages. I know it won't really keep me on track page-wise, but it will be the right # of chapters. Part of why I went with chapters, some are shorter!

So far I have read 145 chapters, just over halfway to where I should be for my original goal BUT I am still on track for reading under 5 chapters a day (4.7) and I am currently striving to read 5 chapters a day so it should all work out fine!