Sunday Sermonette: Mo rattles on

In Deuteronomy 2 Moses continues his review of the events of the desert exile, but he adds a number of events that were not mentioned previously, and also some decidedly mythic ancient history about the race of giants, and their various names. These are apparently identical with the Nephilim mentioned in Genesis 6:4: " The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. " Who the " sons of God " are is never explained. This seems to be a remnant of an ancient myth that didn ' t get fully explicated in the Torah. This chapter also adds a couple of new massacres and describes the Israelites buying food from people as they pass by, which was not mentioned in Numbers. As we have noted many times before, where this band of runaway slaves got so much money and weaponry and stuff in general is never explained. And yes, the Israelites commit more than one genocide in this chapter alone. Make of it what you will.2 Then we turned back and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea,[a] as theLord had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir.2 Then theLord said to me,3 “You have made your way around this hill country long enough; now turn north.4 Give the people these orders: ‘You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives th...
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