{"podcast":{"title":"Immerse: Bible Reading Experience - NLT Daily Bible In A Year","slug":"immerse-bible-reading-experience-nlt-daily-bible-in-a-year-6723192","podcast_index_feed_id":6723192,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/immerse-bible-reading-experience-daily-bible-in-a-year","website_url":"http://immersebible.com/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TQ_8Gu9FQ7HfPLbxyuIn7rLV7KwQ6kaYRKkCntohyfg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ3ODIzLzE3MDI3/NTMzNzYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg","author":"Tyndale House Publishers","episode_count":706,"summary":"Take a breath, find your place, and read deeply. Discover the joy of reading God’s word with the Immerse New Living Translation (NLT) Bible. This daily Bible podcast will take you through the Bible in a year following the Immerse Bible Reading Experience. So grab your family and small group and go through the Bible in a year together with Immerse. Each of the 6 volumes is available online or at your favorite Christian bookstore.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-07T08:21:04.184358+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/immerse-bible-reading-experience-nlt-daily-bible-in-a-year-6723192"},"episode":{"title":"Immerse Beginnings Day 157 Year 3 Daily Bible Reading","slug":"immerse-beginnings-day-157-year-3-daily-bible-reading","published_at":"2026-06-06T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/immerse-bible-reading-experience-nlt-daily-bible-in-a-year-6723192/immerse-beginnings-day-157-year-3-daily-bible-reading","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/immerse-bible-reading-experience-nlt-daily-bible-in-a-year-6723192","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/0758dc00","audio_url":"https://2.gum.fm/op3.dev/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.transistor.fm/0758dc00/78d1224b.mp3","summary":"Marriage, Mercy, and the Gleaner’s Right The laws in this reading touch the most intimate and the most mundane corners of human life—marriage, sexuality, divorce, neighborliness, wages, gleaning—and through them all runs a single thread: the vulnerable must be protected. The marriage laws are harsh by modern standards, but in their ancient context they represent an attempt to bring order and accountability to relationships where women had little legal recourse. The rights of a captive woman, the rules about divorce, the protections for a falsely accused bride—each provision constrains the power of the strong over the weak. Escaped slaves must not be returned to their masters—a law so radical it has no parallel in the ancient Near East. Loans to fellow Israelites must be interest-free. Vows must be kept. A newly married man gets a full year exempt from military service to ‘bring happiness to his wife.’ Workers must be paid before sunset. And then come the gleaning laws, among the most beautiful legislation in the Bible: when you harvest your field and forget a sheaf, do not go back for it. When you beat your olive trees, do not go over the branches twice. When you gather grapes, leave what remains. These forgotten sheaves, these unpicked olives, these remaining clusters belong to the foreigners, the orphans, and the widows. God builds a welfare system into the very act of harvesting. The poor do not receive charity; they receive the right to gather what the prosperous have left behind. And the reason is always the same: ‘Remember that you were slaves in Egypt.’ Memory is the engine of compassion. 00:00 Accusations Against a Bride 01:00 Laws About Adultery and Rape 03:00 Exclusions from the Assembly 04:00 Keeping the Camp Pure 05:00 No Interest on Loans to Israelites 06:…","meta_description":"Marriage, Mercy, and the Gleaner’s Right The laws in this reading touch the most intimate and the most mundane corners of human life—marriage, sexuality,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":946,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/immerse-bible-reading-experience-nlt-daily-bible-in-a-year-6723192/episodes/immerse-beginnings-day-157-year-3-daily-bible-reading/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/immerse-bible-reading-experience-nlt-daily-bible-in-a-year-6723192/immerse-beginnings-day-157-year-3-daily-bible-reading.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}