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As It Is Written
by Athena Vetterick
As It Is Written — the Bible walked through book by book, chapter by chapter, in exegesis style. Original languages, ancient context, hidden meanings and honest textual notes, all explained from zero — like a friend telling you something big. Season 1: The Gospel of John. Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Narrated by a synthesized voice.
Episodes
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Episode 27 — Leviticus 27: What a Vow Costs
Leviticus 27, verse by verse — the finale. After twenty-six chapters of what God requires comes a whole chapter of what nobody required: vows, the voluntary overflow. Every vow gets priced in sanctuary shekels, scaled by age and by what a person can actually afford — devotion with a price list,...
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Episode 26 — Leviticus 26: If You Walk in My Statutes
Leviticus 26, verse by verse — the covenant's two doors, and the chapter is honest about the proportions: the blessings take fourteen verses and the curses take longer — the warning is weighed heavier than the promise. The curses escalate in stages, and each stage opens with the same door still...
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Episode 25 — Leviticus 25: The Land Keeps Sabbath
Leviticus 25, verse by verse — the year the land itself rests, and the fiftieth year when everything goes back. Jubilee: liberty proclaimed throughout the land, land returned to its clan, debts released, Israelite servants set free — all of it grounded in one sentence: 'The land is mine, for you...
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Episode 24 — Leviticus 24: Bread and Light, and a Name
Leviticus 24, verse by verse — the sanctuary's daily bread and lamplight, then a camp fight that becomes a landmark case. The blasphemer's mother is named when his father is not: Shelomith, of the tribe of Dan. The whole congregation lays hands on his head; the verdict is spoken and then carried...
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Episode 23 — Leviticus 23: Appointed Times
Leviticus 23, verse by verse — God's calendar, and it starts with the day that isn't a feast at all: the Sabbath, the weekly rest everything else is built on. Then the year unfolds — Passover and Unleavened Bread, the first sheaf and the fifty-day count to Weeks, the trumpet blast opening the...
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Episode 22 — Leviticus 22: No Defect
Leviticus 22, verse by verse — the defect law from the other side of the altar. The same word for blemish runs through the priest of chapter 21 and the animal of this chapter: nothing marred crosses the line, whether it serves or is served up. And the rules are practical, not fussy — no animal...
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Episode 21 — Leviticus 21: The Priests' Own Rules
Leviticus 21, verse by verse — the standard rises with the nearness. Ordinary priests may contract corpse-uncleanness only for their inner circle; the high priest may not mourn at all — no loosened hair, no torn clothes, no corpse contact even for his father or mother — because he is the one man...
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Episode 20 — Leviticus 20: Set Apart
Leviticus 20, verse by verse — chapter 18's list returns, this time with the sentences attached. Molech stands at the head, and with him the bystander law: the people who hide their eyes from the man who gives his child to the fire share in his guilt — Israel's own kings later proved the point,...
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Episode 19 — Leviticus 19: Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
Leviticus 19, verse by verse — the holiness code's beating heart, the chapter where 'holy' stops meaning only separate and starts meaning how you treat people. 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself' sits in a list with honest scales, the field's edges left for the poor and the sojourner…
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Episode 18 — Leviticus 18: Do Not Do as They Do
Leviticus 18, verse by verse — the holiness code's boundary chapter. 'You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.' The forbidden unions listed one by…
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Episode 17 — Leviticus 17: The Life Is in the Blood
Leviticus 17, verse by verse — where the holiness code opens: at the altar door and the dinner table, with blood. Every slaughtered animal brought to the entrance of the tent, because blood is never treated as common — and the verse the whole book turns on: 'For the life of the flesh is in the...
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Episode 16 — Leviticus 16: Once a Year
Leviticus 16, verse by verse — the center of the book: the Day of Atonement. Two goats chosen by lot. One 'for the LORD,' slain, its blood carried inside the veil and sprinkled on the mercy seat. One 'for Azazel' — a name the text's own footnotes leave honestly uncertain — bearing every confessed...
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Episode 15 — Leviticus 15: Flows of Life and Death
Leviticus 15, verse by verse — the discharges chapter, and the book's quiet thesis: the sanctuary is guarded from the forces of death while life flows on outside it. Normal and abnormal flows for men and women, handled from the text itself, without embarrassment and without games: the seven clean...
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Episode 14 — Leviticus 14: Two Birds
Leviticus 14, verse by verse — the cleansing of the one healed from tzara'at. Two birds: one killed over fresh water, the other dipped in the blood and set free into the open field — the death absorbed, the life released. Seven sprinklings, washing, shaving, seven days, and on the eighth day the...
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Episode 13 — Leviticus 13: The Priest Examines
Leviticus 13, verse by verse — the longest diagnostic chapter in the book. Tzara'at, the spreading skin condition older translations call 'leprosy,' though it is not Hansen's disease — and the priest who examines but never heals: 'the priest shall examine him,' again and again. Diagnosis,...
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Episode 12 — Leviticus 12: Forty Days
Leviticus 12, verse by verse — the book's shortest chapter, all eight verses. Purification after childbirth: seven days plus thirty-three for a son, fourteen plus sixty-six for a daughter — and this episode says plainly what the text never does: why the time doubles for a daughter is nowhere...
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Episode 11 — Leviticus 11: On the Table
Leviticus 11, verse by verse. The food laws — clean and unclean at the table, and the chapter's own stated reasons: 'I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.' The criteria for land animals, water creatures, birds, and...
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Episode 10 — Leviticus 10: Strange Fire
Leviticus 10, verse by verse. Strange fire — Nadab and Abihu offer what God 'had not commanded them,' and fire comes out from before the LORD, the same phrase as the glory-fire of chapter 9. The text's only charge is what it states; whether drink played a part is inference, and this episode flags...
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Episode 9 — Leviticus 9: Fire Fell
Leviticus 9, verse by verse. The eighth day — Aaron's first real ministry. Himself first: a calf for his sin offering, a ram for his burnt offering; then the people's offerings. The blessing with lifted hands — the words aren't recorded here; Numbers 6 gives them later. Moses and Aaron enter the...
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Episode 8 — Leviticus 8: Washed, Dressed, Anointed
Leviticus 8, verse by verse. Ordination day — the first time the book's instructions are actually carried out, in front of the whole congregation. Moses washes Aaron and his sons; the dressing piece by piece, ending with the golden plate, 'Holy to the LORD'; the anointing of the tabernacle, the...
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Episode 7 — Leviticus 7: Most Holy
Leviticus 7, verse by verse. The priests' manual closes: the guilt offering as most holy — one law with the sin offering, and who eats what and why; the peace offering's full table, thanksgiving breads including leavened loaves brought but never burned, the eating clock, and the third day called...
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Episode 6 — Leviticus 6: The Fire Must Not Go Out
Leviticus 6 — the guilt offering finishes with fraud against a neighbor counted as treachery against God: restore in full, add a fifth, on the day you realize it. Then the priests' manual opens: ashes at dawn in linen, wood every morning, and the altar fire that shall not go out. The grain…
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Episode 5 — Leviticus 5: What You Can Afford
Leviticus 5 — confession spoken aloud, and the sliding scale of forgiveness: a lamb, two birds, or a handful of plain flour, with the forgiveness sentence identical at every tier — nobody priced out. Then the guilt offering: breach of faith against holy things, restitution plus a fifth paid…
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Episode 4 — Leviticus 4: Even the Priest
Leviticus 4 — the sin offering, the hattat: the purification offering for unintentional sin once it becomes known. Sin as pollution that reaches the sanctuary, and blood applied exactly as far as the pollution went — the anointed priest and the whole congregation before the veil, the leader and…
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Episode 3 — Leviticus 3: The Fellowship Offering
Leviticus 3 — the fellowship offering. Shelamim, from the root of shalom: the offering where everybody eats. God's portion — the fat and the inmost parts — burned on top of the daily burnt offering, the priests' share, and the family's feast; the fat-tailed sheep's whole tail given up; and the...
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Episode 2 — Leviticus 2: Salt of the Covenant
Leviticus 2 — the grain offering. Fine flour, oil and frankincense, no blood at all: the minhah as a gift brought into a greater presence. The memorial handful (azkarah) that burns so the giver is remembered, the priests' most-holy portion, the kitchen versions — oven, griddle and pan — the ban…
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Episode 1 — Leviticus 1: Without Blemish
Season 6 premiere of As It Is Written: Leviticus 1 — Without Blemish.
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Episode 24 — Luke 24: Our Hearts Burned
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 24: the empty tomb, the road to Emmaus, the risen Jesus among his disciples, and the ascension at Bethany. Season 5 finale. ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 23 — Luke 23: Today You Will Be with Me
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 23: Pilate's and Herod's acquittals, Barabbas released, the road to the cross, 'today you will be with me in paradise,' and the burial before the Sabbath. ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 22 — Luke 22: This Is My Body
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 22: the plot against Jesus, the Last Supper and the new covenant, Gethsemane, the arrest, Peter's denials, and the council. ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 21 — Luke 21: Heaven and Earth Will Pass Away
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 21: the widow's two small coins, the temple discourse, persecution promised, Jerusalem surrounded, and 'straighten up and raise your heads.' ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 20 — Luke 20: Render to Caesar
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 20: the authority question, the parable of the wicked tenants, Caesar's coin, the Sadducees' resurrection riddle, and David's son. ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 19 — Luke 19: Today Salvation Has Come
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 19: Zacchaeus the tax collector climbs a tree, the parable of the ten minas, the triumphal entry, Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, and the temple cleansed. ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 18 — Luke 18: He Went Home Justified
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 18: a widow who outlasts an unjust judge, two men praying in one temple and only one going home justified, a rich ruler who walks away grieving, and a blind beggar who refuses to be silenced. ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 17 — Luke 17: Were Not Ten Cleansed?
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 17: forgive seven times a day, unworthy servants, ten lepers cleansed as they went — and the one who turned back was a Samaritan — plus a kingdom that is already standing in the midst of the people asking when it comes. ESV text...
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Episode 16 — Luke 16: God and Mammon
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 16: the shrewd manager who cuts his master's bills and is commended for it, mammon named as a rival master, and Lazarus at the rich man's gate — the only named character in any parable, and a chasm no one can cross. ESV text…
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Episode 15 — Luke 15: Was Lost and Is Found
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 15: "this man receives sinners and eats with them" — a lost sheep carried home on a shepherd's shoulders, a lost coin in a swept house, and a father who runs to one son and goes out to plead with the other. Three panels of one...
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Episode 14 — Luke 14: Count the Cost
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 14: a Sabbath dinner at a ruler's house — a healing the experts cannot answer, the seating chart of the kingdom, a great banquet and its three polite excuses, and "cannot be my disciple" spoken three times to the crowds. ESV text...
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Episode 13 — Luke 13: Unless You Repent
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 13: "unless you repent" spoken over an atrocity and an accident alike, a fig tree granted one more year, a woman bent double for eighteen years loosed on the Sabbath, and a narrow door where eating and drinking in his presence is...
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Episode 12 — Luke 12: Fear Not, Little Flock
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 12: the leaven of hypocrisy, a rich fool and his bigger barns, sparrows sold two for a penny and hairs all numbered, and a little flock told not to fear — because it is the Father's good pleasure to give them the kingdom. ESV…
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Episode 11 — Luke 11: The Sign of Jonah
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 11: the Lord's Prayer in Luke's leaner form, a midnight knock and a shameless request, the finger of God, a swept and empty house, and woes pronounced over a Pharisee's dinner table. ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 10 — Luke 10: Who Is My Neighbor?
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 10: the seventy-two sent out two by two, names written in heaven, a lawyer's question answered with the Good Samaritan, and one thing necessary at Martha's house. ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 9 — Luke 9: Who Do You Say That I Am?
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 9: the Twelve sent out, five thousand fed, Peter's confession, glory on the mountain — and a face set toward Jerusalem. ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 8 — Luke 8: Who Touched Me?
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 8: the women who fund the ministry, the sower's four soils, a storm stilled, Legion freed among the tombs, and two twelves — a dying girl and a bleeding woman. ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 7 — Luke 7: Do Not Weep
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 7: a centurion's faith that amazes Jesus, a widow's son raised at the gate of Nain, John's question from prison, and a woman whose love measured her forgiveness. ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 6 — Luke 6: Blessed Are You Poor
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 6: a night of prayer, twelve apostles named, and the Sermon on the Plain — four blessings, four woes, and "lend, expecting nothing in return." ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 5 — Luke 5: Put Out into the Deep
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 5: a night of empty nets and a catch that nearly sinks two boats, a leper's "Lord, if you will," friends who open a roof, and a tax collector who leaves everything for a feast. ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 4 — Luke 4: Today This Scripture
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 4: forty days of testing in the wilderness, the Nazareth manifesto read from Isaiah — and a hometown that tries to throw its own son off a cliff. ESV text quoted with permission.
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Episode 3 — Luke 3: Every Valley Shall Be Filled
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 3: the most dated paragraph in the New Testament, John's axe at the root of the trees, Jesus baptized while praying, and a genealogy that climbs past Abraham to Adam, the son of God.
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Episode 2 — Luke 2: Good News of Great Joy
As It Is Written — exegesis style, chapter by chapter. Luke chapter 2: Caesar's census and the Quirinius puzzle, a birth in the feeding-trough room, shepherds as first witnesses, and two old saints in the temple who have been waiting their whole lives.
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As It Is Written — the Bible walked through book by book, chapter by chapter, in exegesis style. Original languages, ancient context, hidden meanings and honest textual notes, all explained from zero — like a friend telling you something big. Season 1: The Gospel of John. Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Narrated by a synthesized voice.
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