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Both Jim Davila and John Byron link to and discuss the article in\u00a0The Tablet about a new video game which involves following the rules in Leviticus. I\u2019d be interested to know what sort of possible educational uses a game like this might have, and how much someone who plays it ends up understanding about Leviticus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[726,1140,3736,5356,5362,6516,12212,13375],"class_list":["post-13307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leviticus","tag-app","tag-bible","tag-game","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-leviticus","tag-tablet","tag-video-game"],"yoast_head":"\n
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