What happensPermalink

Reminders to keep the lamps in the tabernacle lit daily and the bread of the presence baked weekly. A story of blasphemy leading to the lex talionis (“an eye for an eye”).

Why it mattersPermalink

God attends to not only the big feasts, but the daily ritual of lighting the candle and the weekly ritual of setting out the bread of the presence.

Key versePermalink

…fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.

Leviticus 24:20