{"id":4735,"date":"2024-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/december-1\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:54:22","slug":"december-1","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/reading-plan\/december-1\/","title":{"rendered":"December 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insight from Deuteronomy 21, applying to Mic 1:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod gave his law in the framework of covenant relationship, with the various statutes and judgments supplying the stipulations of the covenant enforcers, speaking with their Bibles open to Moses\u2019 words. Moses himself was the greatest of all Old Testament prophets, supplying both the content and pattern for most Old Testament proclamation. Moses\u2019 laws come to us in two forms, which scholars have tagged as <em>apodictic<\/em> [i.e., base principles with no qualification nor exception] and <em>casuistic<\/em> [i.e., circumstantial, often applications of apodictic laws]. Along with identifying these formal distinctions, it is helpful to recognize the different types of laws based on their variation in content [of which there are] five different types\u2026: criminal [e.g., Deut 21:18\u201321], civil, family [e.g., Deut 21:15\u201316], cultic\/ceremonial, and compassion.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4735","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}