Research Paper: Interpretive Journey Paper

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Recommended: Deuteronomy 22

Date: May 2014
BIBLE 351-D13 Spring 2014
LuAnne Turnage
Interpretive Journey Paper

Deuteronomy 22:6: “If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother siting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;”

Step 1: Grasp the text in their town. Summarize the original situation and the meaning of the text for the biblical audience?
The Israelites were being told right before they entered the Promised Land how to live and behave in their daily lives. This is certainly one of the rules that Moses was laying out to them after they crossed the river into the Jordan. Moses was not going to be allowed to follow them into the Promised Land and God was using Moses to exhort to His people how He expected them to live. Clear instructions are given to leave the mother of the young alone, but the young and eggs they had access to. In the first verse of this chapter the Israelites are reminded to be neighborly and help each other with lost oxen. The surrounding context is a clear expecta...

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