Episode 31 The Founder of Thanksgiving and the Thanksgiving Offering
The story of who inspired the national Thanksgiving of 1863 also sheds light on the diverse breads—leavened and unleavened—of Leviticus’s original thanksgiving offering.
Text: Leviticus 2 & 7
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