10:13 PM, Tuesday, February 25, 2003
Thou Shalt Write
And it shall be … that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites: and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life:
- that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
- that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren,
- and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left:
- to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Deuteronomy 17:18-20
One of “my” little girls is copying out the book of Genesis in English every day. Some other church kids are doing the same thing in Japanese.
Someday, I’d like to have some of the kids copy the Pentateuch (or maybe just Genesis) in Hebrew … after they copy it out in Japanese and English, of course. Then, we’ll read portions of it every day before class, each child with his own hand-written copy. Ideally, writing out the Pentateuch would be part of a Biblical curriculum.
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