Quotes about Old Testament

don't want to beat a dead lamb, but let me say again that contradictions between Old Testament laws aren't exactly an industry secret. Jewish tradition has wrestled with them since before Christianity. Biblical scholars write books about it. Who knows, perhaps a future episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel will have Midge's mom stressed out about how exactly to prepare the Passover lamb.

If we think of the gospel as simply rolling right off the Old Testament tongue, we will be wrong. And we will fail to appreciate how creative the New Testament writers were in working out the day-to-day real-time implications of all of this.

So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.

And Moses took the fat—the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with their fat—as well as the right thigh.

The clans of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,

He gave the Gershonites two carts and four oxen, as their service required,

and a peace offering of two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.

and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of Benjamin.

36,000 cattle,