Thou shalt take a honeymoon of one year

Currently at Toronto Pearson: 7. High today: 9.

Sometime around the middle of January, I signed up for biblegateway.com's read-the-bible-in-a-year program, and I have been falling further and further behind ever since. (I think I will probably read the bible in two years, maybe three.) I've meant to say something about a couple of things along the way--I think the thing that has grabbed my attention the most is that in the parable of the talents, in Matthew, the loser guy says he buried his talent in the ground because he knows his master is a jerk and takes things that don't belong to him, and his master says that his being a jerk who takes things that don't belong to him is exactly why the loser guy shouldn't have buried his talent in the ground--but here is my favourite thing so far from Deuteronomy, which is way less amusing than Leviticus (I mean Leviticus is admittedly really tedious, but it does amuse me how it says over and over how to make an heave offering (or a wave offering or whatever) you should do this and that and the other thing, "for it is an heave offering"), but at least says this: "When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken."

Oh yeah, also, there are a few places in Leviticus and/or Numbers where it seems like God is saying that everyone except the Levites needs to sacrifice their firstborn children. That also caught my attention.

And, and: swans aren't kosher. I did not know that. But it is a fact that people don't eat swans, and that does seem kind of strange.