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Slowlyyyy chipping away at a full read-through this year! If my GoodReads looks crazy for 2026 … at least it comes alongside the benefit of having sunk deep within God’s Word.

[also maybe eventually I will sit still long enough to finish the 7 other books I have started over the last 4 months 😙]

And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing. Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”

ok so its evil to rape a man but not women?

"And he said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.” And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil..."

ah yes the spirit of the lord came upon a man who called a woman a heifer and then beat up thirty men and robbed them of their clothes. what an upstanding guy