After the exodus from Egypt, when Israel was to enter the land which God had promised to Abraham and his offspring, the people refused. As a result, God made them wander in the desert for forty years. At the end of that time, the Israelites had another opportunity to cross into Canaan, this time near […]
How many ways can you fix manna? After forty years of eating it, the Israelites must have developed quite a few recipes. Still, it must have gotten old. There is no indication that the people ate meat from their flocks and herds, so the manna must have provided a well-rounded nutritious source of food. You […]
Her life hadn’t turned out anything like she had dreamed when she was a young girl. Instead of having her own family, along with a servant to help with housework, she was someone else’s servant in their home. Like a piece of jewelry, she was given as a gift to a foreign couple and taken […]