Friday, February 29, 2008

Numbers 19:1-22

Hello and Welcome. Today we are reading through Numbers 19:1-22.

I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here.


Numbers 19

Ordinance of the Red Heifer

1Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2"This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, 'Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you an unblemished red heifer in which is no defect and on which a yoke has never been placed.

3'You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be brought outside the camp and be slaughtered in his presence.

4'Next Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.

5'Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its hide and its flesh and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned.
6'The priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet material and cast it into the midst of the burning heifer.

7'The priest shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward come into the camp, but the priest shall be unclean until evening.

8'The one who burns it shall also wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

9'Now a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and the congregation of the sons of Israel shall keep it as water to remove impurity; it is purification from sin.

10'The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute to the sons of Israel and to the alien who sojourns among them.

11'The one who touches the corpse of any person shall be unclean for seven days.
12'That one shall purify himself from uncleanness with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and then he will be clean; but if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.

13'Anyone who touches a corpse, the body of a man who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from Israel Because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.
14'This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean for seven days.

15'Every open vessel, which has no covering tied down on it, shall be unclean.
16'(P)Also, anyone who in the open field touches one who has been slain with a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.

17'Then for the unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the burnt purification from sin and flowing water shall be added to them in a vessel.

18'A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there, and on the one who touched the bone or the one slain or the one dying naturally or the grave.

19'Then the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify him from uncleanness, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and shall be clean by evening.

20'But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself from uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean.

21'So it shall be a perpetual statute for them. And he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
22'Furthermore, anything that the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.'"

~~Numbers 15-19 Korah, jealous of Moses, sought to usurp his leadership. Moses went straight to God. And God settled the matter in no time. The earth opened, and the rebels went down.

Please join me in reading Numbers 20:1-29

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Numbers 18:1-32

Hello and welcome...Today we read through Numbers 18:1-32





I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here.





Numbers 18



Duties of Levites



1So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's household with you shall bear the guilt in connection with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the guilt in connection with your priesthood.



2"But bring with you also your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be joined with you and serve you, while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.



3"And they shall thus attend to your obligation and the obligation of all the tent, but they shall not come near to the furnishings of the sanctuary and the altar, or both they and you will die.
4"They shall be joined with you and attend to the obligations of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; but an outsider may not come near you.



5"So you shall attend to the obligations of the sanctuary and the obligations of the altar, so that there will no longer be wrath on the sons of Israel.



6"Behold, I Myself have taken your fellow Levites from among the sons of Israel; they are a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD, to perform the service for the tent of meeting.



7"But you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and inside the veil, and you are to perform service I am giving you the priesthood as a bestowed service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death."



The Priests' Portion



8Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Now behold, I Myself have given you charge of My offerings, even all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual allotment.



9"This shall be yours from the most holy gifts reserved from the fire; every offering of theirs, even every grain offering and every sin offering and every guilt offering, which they shall render to Me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.



10"As the most holy gifts you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.
11"This also is yours, the offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel; I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual allotment. Everyone of your household who is clean may eat it.



12"All the best of the fresh oil and all the best of the fresh wine and of the grain, the first fruits of those which they give to the LORD, I give them to you.



13"The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours; everyone of your household who is clean may eat it.



14"Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.
15"Every first issue of the womb of all flesh, whether man or animal, which they offer to the LORD, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.



16"As to their redemption price, from a month old you shall redeem them, by your valuation, five ]shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
17"But the firstborn of an ox or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall offer up their fat in smoke as an offering by fire, for a soothing aroma to the LORD.



18"Their meat shall be yours; it shall be yours like the breast of a wave offering and like the right thigh.



19"All the offerings of the holy gifts, which the sons of Israel offer to the LORD, I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a perpetual allotment It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD to you and your descendants with you."



20Then the LORD said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land nor own any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the sons of Israel.
21"To the sons of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they perform, the service of the tent of meeting.



22"The sons of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting again, or they will bear sin and die.
23"Only the Levites shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the sons of Israel)they shall have no inheritance.



24"For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they offer as an offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore I have said concerning them, 'They shall have no inheritance among the sons of Israel.'"



25Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
26"Moreover, you shall speak to the Levites and say to them, 'When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present an offering from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.



27'Your offering shall be reckoned to you as the grain from the threshing floor or the full produce from the wine vat.



28'So you shall also present an offering to the LORD from your tithes, which you receive from the sons of Israel; and from it you shall give the LORD'S offering to Aaron the priest.
29'Out of all your gifts you shall present every offering due to the LORD, from all the best of them, the sacred part from them.'



30"You shall say to them, 'When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be reckoned to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor, and as the product of the wine vat.
31'You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the tent of meeting.



32'You will bear no sin by reason of it when you have offered the best of it. But you shall not profane the sacred gifts of the sons of Israel, or you will die.'"





Please join me in reading Numbers 19:1-22

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Numbers 16:1-50 plus 17:1-13

Hello and welcome. Today we read through Numbers 16:1-50

I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here.

Numbers 16

Korah's Rebellion

1Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took action,
2and they rose up before Moses, together with some of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, chosen in the assembly, men of renown.

3They assembled together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "You have gone far enough, for all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is in their midst; so why do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?"

4When Moses heard this, he fell on his face;
5and he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, "Tomorrow morning the LORD will show who is His, and who is holy, and will bring him near to Himself; even the one whom He will choose, He will bring near to Himself.

6"Do this: take censers for yourselves, Korah and all your company,
7and put fire in them, and lay incense upon them in the presence of the LORD tomorrow; and the man whom the LORD chooses shall be the one who is holy. You have gone far enough, you sons of Levi!"

8Then Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi,
9is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;

10and that He has brought you near, Korah, and all your brothers, sons of Levi, with you? And are you seeking for the priesthood also?

11"Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against the LORD; but as for Aaron, who is he that you grumble against him?"

12Then Moses sent a summons to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; but they said, "We will not come up.

13"Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to have us die in the wilderness, but you would also lord it over us?

14"Indeed, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor have you given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards Would you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up!"

15Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, "Do not regard their offering! I have not taken a single donkey from them, nor have I done harm to any of them."

16Moses said to Korah, "You and all your company be present before the LORD tomorrow, both you and they along with Aaron.

17"Each of you take his firepan and put incense on it, and each of you bring his censer before the LORD, two hundred and fifty firepans; also you and Aaron shall each bring his firepan."
18So they each took his own censer and put fire on it, and laid incense on it; and they stood at the doorway of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.

19Thus Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the doorway of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.
20Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

21"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them instantly."
22But they fell on their faces and said, "O God, God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the entire congregation?"

23Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
24"Speak to the congregation, saying, 'Get back from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.'"

25Then Moses arose and went to Dathan and Abiram, with the elders of Israel following him,
26and he spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart now from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, or you will be swept away in all their sin."

27So they got back from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the doorway of their tents, along with their wives and their sons and their little ones.

28Moses said, "By this you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these deeds; for this is not my doing.

29"If these men die the death of all men or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.

30"But if the LORD brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol, then you will understand that these men have spurned the LORD."

31As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open;
32and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions.

33So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

34All Israel who were around them fled at their outcry, for they said, "The earth may swallow us up!"

35Fire also came forth from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.

36Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

37"Say to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, that he shall take up the censers out of the midst of the blaze, for they are holy; and you scatter the burning coals abroad.

38"As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered sheets for a plating of the altar, since they did present them before the LORD and they are holy; and they shall be for a sign to the sons of Israel."

39So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which the men who were burned had offered, and they hammered them out as a plating for the altar,

40as a reminder to the sons of Israel that no layman who is not of the descendants of Aaron should come near to burn incense before the LORD; so that he will not become like Korah and his company--just as the LORD had spoken to him through Moses.

Murmuring and Plague

41But on the next day all the congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You are the ones who have caused the death of the LORD'S people."

42It came about, however, when the congregation had assembled against Moses and Aaron, that they turned toward the tent of meeting, and behold, the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared.

43Then Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting,
44and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

45"Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them instantly." Then they fell on their faces.

46Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the LORD, the plague has begun!"

47Then Aaron took it as Moses had spoken, and ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people. So he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.

48He took his stand between the dead and the living, so that the plague was checked.
49But those who died by the plague were 14,700, besides those who died on account of Korah.

50Then Aaron returned to Moses at the doorway of the tent of meeting, for the plague had been checked.

~~please read through Numbers 17:1-13

Numbers 17:1-13

Numbers 17

Aaron's Rod Buds

1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2"Speak to the sons of Israel, and get from them a rod for each father's household: twelve rods, from all their leaders according to their fathers' households. You shall write each name on his rod,

3and write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi; for there is one rod for the head of each of their fathers' households.

4"You shall then deposit them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony, where I meet with you.

5"It will come about that the rod of the man whom I choose will sprout. Thus I will lessen from upon Myself the grumblings of the sons of Israel, who are grumbling against you."

6Moses therefore spoke to the sons of Israel, and all their leaders gave him a rod apiece, for each leader according to their fathers' households, twelve rods, with the rod of Aaron among their rods.

7So Moses deposited the rods before the LORD in the tent of the testimony.
8Now on the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.

9Moses then brought out all the rods from the presence of the LORD to all the sons of Israel; and they looked, and each man took his rod.

10But the LORD said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony to be kept as a sign against the rebels, that you may put an end to their grumblings against Me, so that they will not die."

11Thus Moses did; just as the LORD had commanded him, so he did.

12Then the sons of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, we perish, we are dying, we are all dying!

13"Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, must die. Are we to perish completely?"

~~Please join me in reading Numbers 18:1-32

Monday, February 25, 2008

Numbers 15:1-41

Hello and welcome...Today we read through Numbers 15:1-41

I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here.


Numbers 15

Laws for Canaan

1Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,

3then make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a special vow, or as a freewill offering or in your appointed times, to make a soothing aroma to the LORD, from the herd or from the flock.

4'The one who presents his offering shall present to the LORD a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil,

5and you shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one-fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

6'Or for a ram you shall prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil;
7and for the drink offering you shall offer one-third of a hin of wine as a soothing aroma to the LORD.

8'When you prepare a bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a special vow, or for peace offerings to the LORD,

9then you shall offer with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-half a hin of oil;
10and you shall offer as the drink offering one-half a hin of wine as an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD.

11'Thus it shall be done for each ox, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the goats.
12'According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do for everyone according to their number.
13'All who are native shall do these things in this manner, in presenting an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD.

Law of the Sojourner

14'If an alien sojourns with you, or one who may be among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to make an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD, just as you do so he shall do.
15'As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the alien who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the alien be before the LORD.

16'There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the alien who sojourns with you.'"
17Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

18"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land where I bring you,
19then it shall be, that when you eat of the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.

20'Of the first of your dough you shall lift up a cake as an offering; as the offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up.

21'From the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD an offering throughout your generations.
22'But when you unwittingly fail and do not observe all these commandments, which the LORD has spoken to Moses,

23even all that the LORD has commanded you through Moses, from the day when the LORD gave commandment and onward throughout your generations,

24then it shall be, if it is done unintentionally, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one bull for a burnt offering, as a soothing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.

25'Then the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and they will be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error.

26'So all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be forgiven, with the alien who sojourns among them, for it happened to all the people through error.
27'Also if one person sins unintentionally, then he shall offer a one year old female goat for a sin offering.

28'The priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who goes astray when he sins unintentionally, making atonement for him that he may be forgiven.

29'You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the alien who sojourns among them.
30'But the person who does anything defiantly, whether he is native or an alien, that one is blaspheming the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

31'Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt will be on him.'"
Sabbath-breaking Punished

32Now while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the sabbath day.

33Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation;
34and they put him in custody because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
35Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp."

36So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

37The LORD also spoke to Moses, saying,
38"Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves (AA)tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue.

39"It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot,
40so that you may remember to do all My commandments and be holy to your God.
41"I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the LORD your God."

~~Please join me in reading Numbers 16:1-50

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Numbers 14:1-45

Hello and Welcome...Today we read through Numbers 14:1-45...grab your coffee and let's go.

I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here...

Numbers 14

The People Rebel

1Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
2All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

3"Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"

4So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."
5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.

6Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;

7and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, "The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.

8"If the LORD is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us--a land which flows with milk and honey.

9"Only do not rebel against the LORD; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them."

10But all the congregation said to stone them with stones Then the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.

Moses Pleads for the People

11The LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst?

12"I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."

13But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst,

14and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, for You, O LORD, are seen eye to eye, while Your cloud stands over them; and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

15"Now if You slay this people as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
16'Because the LORD could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

17"But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared,
18'The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.'

19"Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."

The LORD Pardons and Rebukes

20So the LORD said, "I have pardoned them according to your word;
21but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD.

22"Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,
23shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.

24"But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it.
25"Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out to the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea."

26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
27"How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they are making against Me.

28"Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you;

29your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.
30'Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

31'Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey--I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.

32'But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.
33'Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness.

34'According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition.

35'I, the LORD, have spoken, surely this I will do to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be destroyed, and there they will die.'"

36As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report concerning the land,

37even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the LORD.
38But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.

Israel Repulsed

39When Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people mourned greatly.
40In the morning, however, they rose up early and went up to the ridge of the hill country,
saying, "Here we are; we have indeed sinned, but we will go up to the place which the LORD has promised."

41But Moses said, "Why then are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD, when it will not succeed?

42"Do not go up, or you will be struck down before your enemies, for the LORD is not among you.
43"For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you will fall by the sword, inasmuch as you have turned back from following the LORD. And the LORD will not be with you."

44But they went up heedlessly to the ridge of the hill country; neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses left the camp.

45Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and beat them down as far as Hormah.

~~So because of the bad report from the spies sent to check out the new and promised land the people refused to move forward. Within sight of the promised land they turned back. For them the opportunity never returned...Caleb and Joshua, the two spies who wanted to go forward, were the only ones of the 600,000 men over 20 who lived to enter Canaan.~~
please join me in reading Numbers 15:1-41

Friday, February 22, 2008

Numbers 13:1-33

Welcome...today we are reading about the "spies that viewed the land" these are my little spies who are viewing the land here for a family reunon we have coming up later this summer.

Today we read through Numbers 13:1-33

I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here.


Numbers 13

Spies View the Land

1Then the LORD spoke to Moses saying,
2"Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers' tribes, every one a leader among them."

3So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel.

4These then were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;
5from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;
6from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
7from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;
8from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;
9from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;
10from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;
11from the tribe of Joseph, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;
12from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;
13from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;
14from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;
15from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
16These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; but Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.
17When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he said to them, "Go up there in the Negev; then go up into the hill country.
18"See what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many.
19"How is the land in which they live, is it good or bad? And how are the cities in which they live, are they like open camps or with fortifications?
20"How is the land, is it fat or lean? Are there trees in it or not? Make an effort then to get some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.
21So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, at Lebo-hamath.

22When they had gone up into the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23Then they came to the valley of Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two men, with some of the pomegranates and the figs.

24That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there.

The Spies' Reports

25When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days,
26they proceeded to come to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; and they brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

27Thus they told him, and said, "We went in to the land where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
28"Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

29"Amalek is living in the land of the Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill country, and the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan."

30Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it."

31But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us."

32So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.

33"There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."

~~Moses had planned to go directly from Sinai to Canaan. He went to Kadesh 150 miles south of Beersheba, intending to enter at once, but the spies brought a discouraging report and the people refused to go forward.~~

Please join me in reading Numbers 14:1-45

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Numbers 12: 1-16

Hello and Welcome...Today we read through Numbers 12: 1-16.

I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here.

Numbers 12

The Murmuring of Miriam and Aaron

1Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had married a (Cushite woman);

2and they said, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us as well?" And the LORD heard it.
3(Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth.)

4Suddenly the LORD said to Moses and Aaron and to Miriam, "You three come out to the tent of meeting." So the three of them came out.



5Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the doorway of the tent, and He called Aaron and Miriam. When they had both come forward,


6He said,

"Hear now My words:

If there is a prophet among you,

I, the LORD, shall make Myself known to him in a vision

I shall speak with him in a dream.

7"Not so, with My servant Moses,

He is faithful in all My household;

8With him I speak mouth to mouth,

Even openly, and not in dark sayings,

And he beholds the form of the LORD.

Why then were you not afraid

To speak against My servant, against Moses?"
9So the anger of the LORD burned against them and He departed.
10But when the cloud had withdrawn from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. As Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was leprous.
11Then Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, I beg you, do not account this sin to us, in which we have acted foolishly and in which we have sinned.


12"Oh, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother's womb!"
13Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "O God, heal her, I pray!"
14But the LORD said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut up for seven days outside the camp, and afterward she may be received again."


15So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was received again.
16Afterward, however, the people moved out from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.

~~Poor Miriam, before it was over, wished she had never started the thing. Moses was "very meek" 3. what an admirable trait in one of the greatest men of the ages! Jesus, was "meek" and said, "blessed are the meek" Mt.5:5; 11:29~~

Please join me in reading Numbers 13:1-33

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Numbers 11:1-35

Hello and Welcome...Today we read through Numbers 11:1-35

I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here.

Numbers 11

The People Complain

1Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the LORD; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

2The people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD and the fire died out.
3So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.

4The rabble who were among them had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, "Who will give us meat to eat?
5"We remember the fish which we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,

6but now our]appetite is gone. There is nothing at all to look at except this manna."
7Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.
8The people would go about and gather it and grind it between two millstones or beat it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it; and its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil.

9When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

The Complaint of Moses

10Now Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, each man at the doorway of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was displeased

11So Moses said to the LORD, "Why have You been so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me?

12"Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers'?

13"Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, 'Give us meat that we may eat!'
14"I alone am not able to carry all this people, because it is too burdensome for me.
15"So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness."

Seventy Elders to Assist

16The LORD therefore said to Moses, "Gather for Me seventy men from the elders of Israel, (S)whom you know to be the elders of the people and their officers and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.
17"Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take of the Spirit who is upon you, and will put Him upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you will not bear it all alone.

18"Say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, "Oh that someone would give us meat to eat! For we were well-off in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat and you shall eat.

19'You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,
20but a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you; because you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before Him, saying, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?"'"

21But Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are 600,000 on foot; yet You have said, 'I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.'

22"Should flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Or should all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?"

23The LORD said to Moses, "Is the LORD'S power limited? Now you shall see whether My word will come true for you or not."

24So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. Also, he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and stationed them around the tent.

25Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took of the Spirit who was upon him and placed Him upon the seventy elders. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do it again.

26But two men had remained in the camp; the name of one was Eldad and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them (now they were among those who had been registered, but had not gone out to the tent), and they prophesied in the camp.

27So a young man ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
28Then Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his youth, said, "Moses, my lord, restrain them."

29But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD'S people were prophets, that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!"

30Then Moses returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Israel.

The Quail and the Plague

31(Now there went forth a wind from the LORD and it brought quail from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp and about two cubits deep on the surface of the ground.

32The people spent all day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers) and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

33)While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very severe plague.
34So the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had been greedy.

35From Kibroth-hattaavah the people set out for Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth.

~~Within 3 days, at Taberah, They began Murmuring. 10:33; 11:1-3 That was their specialty. They knew how to Complain God sent them quails, but smote them with a plague. see Ex 16~~

Please join me in reading Numbers 12:1-16

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Numbers 10:1-36

Hello and welcome...The computer has been acting up for the last week or so so it is very hard to post on time...If you are trying to stay to a set reading schedule time I am so sorry for the inconvenience...

Today we read through Numbers 10:1-36

I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here.

Numbers 10

The Silver Trumpets

1The LORD spoke further to Moses, saying,
2"Make yourself two trumpets of silver, of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out.

3"When both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
4"Yet if only one is blown, then the leaders, the heads of the divisions of Israel, shall assemble before you.

5"But when you blow an alarm, the camps that are pitched on the east side shall set out.
6"When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are pitched on the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be blown for them to set out.

7"When convening the assembly, however, you shall blow without sounding an alarm.
8"The priestly sons of Aaron, moreover, shall blow the trumpets; and this shall be for you a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

9"When you go to war in your land against the adversary who attacks you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and be saved from your enemies.

10"Also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed feasts, and on the first days of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a reminder of you before your God. I am the LORD your God."

The Tribes Leave Sinai

11Now in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, the cloud was lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony;

12and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai Then the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.

13So they moved out for the first time according to the commandment of the LORD through Moses.
14The standard of the camp of the sons of Judah, according to their armies, set out first, with Nahshon the son of Amminadab, over its army,

15and Nethanel the son of Zuar, over the tribal army of the sons of Issachar;
16and Eliab the son of Helon over the tribal army of the sons of Zebulun.

17Then the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were carrying the tabernacle, set out.
18Next the standard of the camp of Reuben, according to their armies, set out with Elizur the son of Shedeur, over its army,

19and Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai over the tribal army of the sons of Simeon,
20and Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the tribal army of the sons of Gad.

21Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy objects; and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.
22Next the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim, according to their armies, was set out, with Elishama the son of Ammihud over its army,

23and Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur over the tribal army of the sons of Manasseh;
24and Abidan the son of Gideoni over the tribal army of the sons of Benjamin.

25Then the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan, according to their armies, which formed the rear guard for all the camps, set out, with Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai over its army,
26and Pagiel the son of Ochran over the tribal army of the sons of Asher;

27and Ahira the son of Enan over the tribal army of the sons of Naphtali.
28This was the order of march of the sons of Israel by their armies as they set out.
29Then Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out to the place of which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you'; come with us and we will do you good, for the LORD has promised good concerning Israel."

30But he said to him, "I will not come, but rather will go to my own land and relatives."
31Then he said, "Please do not leave us, inasmuch as you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will be as eyes for us.

32"So it will be, if you go with us, that whatever good the LORD does for us, we will do for you."
33Thus they set out from the mount of the LORD three days' journey, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD journeying in front of them for the three days, to seek out a resting place for them.

34The cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.
35Then it came about when the ark set out that Moses said,
"Rise up, O LORD!
And let Your enemies be scattered,
And let those who hate You flee before You."
36When it came to rest, he said,
"Return, O LORD,
To the myriad thousands of Israel."

~~At mt. Sanai one year. The cloud lifted. The silver trumpets sounded, Judah led the march. And they were on their way. ~~

Please join me in reading Numbers 11:1-35

Monday, February 18, 2008

Numbers 9:1-23

Hello and Welcome...Today we read through Numbers 9:1-23

I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here.

Numbers 9

The Passover

1Thus the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

2"Now, let the sons of Israel observe the Passover at its appointed time.
3"On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall observe it at its appointed time; you shall observe it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances."
4So Moses told the sons of Israel to observe the Passover.

5They observed the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.

6But there were some men who were unclean because of the dead person, so that they could not observe Passover on that day; so they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.
7Those men said to him, "Though we are unclean because of the dead person, why are we restrained from presenting the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?"
8Moses therefore said to them, "Wait, and I will listen to what the LORD will command concerning you."

9Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
10"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If any one of you or of your generations becomes unclean because of a dead person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, observe the Passover to the LORD.

11'In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
12'They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall observe it.

13'But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet neglects to observe the Passover, that person shall then be cut off from his people, for he did not present the offering of the LORD at its appointed time That man will bear his sin.
14'If an alien sojourns among you and observes the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance, so he shall do; you shall have one statute, both for the alien and for the native of the land.'"

The Cloud on the Tabernacle

15Now on the day that the tabernacle was erected the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and in the evening it was like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle, until morning.
16So it was continuously; the cloud would cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
17Whenever the cloud was lifted from over the tent, afterward the sons of Israel would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel would camp.

18At the command of the LORD the sons of Israel would set out, and at the command of the LORD they would camp; as long as the cloud settled over the tabernacle, they remained camped.
19Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the sons of Israel would keep the LORD'S charge and not set out.

20If sometimes the cloud remained a few days over the tabernacle, according to the command of the LORD they remained camped. Then according to the command of the LORD they set out.
21If sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning, when the cloud was lifted in the morning, they would move out; or if it remained in the daytime and at night, whenever the cloud was lifted, they would set out.

22Whether it was two days or a month or a year that the cloud lingered over the tabernacle, staying above it, the sons of Israel remained camped and did not set out; but when it was lifted, they did set out.

23At the command of the LORD they camped, and at the command of the LORD they set out; they kept the LORD'S charge, according to the command of the LORD through Moses.

~~Please join me in reading Numbers 10:1-36

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Numbers 8:1-26

Once again no photos :o( and I could not even get a post through yesterday :o( but I am here in word at least today and so we move on :o)

Today we read through Numbers 8:1-26.

I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here.

Numbers 8

The Seven Lamps

1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2"Speak to Aaron and say to him, 'When you mount the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in the front of the lampstand.'"

3Aaron therefore did so; he mounted its lamps at the front of the lampstand, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

4Now this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold; from its base to its flowers it was hammered work; according to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

Cleansing the Levites

5Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
6"Take the Levites from among the sons of Israel and cleanse them.
7"Thus you shall do to them, for their cleansing: sprinkle purifying water on them, and let them use a razor over their whole body and wash their clothes, and they will be clean.

8"Then let them take a bull with its grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and a second bull you shall take for a sin offering.
9"So you shall present the Levites before the tent of meeting You shall also assemble the whole congregation of the sons of Israel,
10and present the Levites before the LORD; and the sons of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites.

11"Aaron then shall present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, that they may qualify to perform the service of the LORD.

12"Now the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls; then offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.

13"You shall have the Levites stand before Aaron and before his sons so as to present them as a wave offering to the LORD.
14"Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall be Mine.

15"Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and present them as a wave offering;
16for they are wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel I have taken them for Myself instead of every first issue of the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel.
17"For every firstborn among the sons of Israel is Mine, among the men and among the animals; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.

18"But I have taken the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel.
19"I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, to perform the service of the sons of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement on behalf of the sons of Israel, so that there will be no plague among the sons of Israel by their coming near to the sanctuary."

20Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the sons of Israel to the Levites; according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them.

21The Levites, too, purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes; and Aaron presented them as a wave offering before the LORD. Aaron also made atonement for them to cleanse them.

22Then after that the Levites went in to perform their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons; just as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

Retirement

23Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
24"This is what applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall enter to perform service in the work of the tent of meeting.

25"But at the age of fifty years they shall retire from service in the work and not work any more.

26"They may, however, assist their brothers in the tent of meeting, to keep an obligation, but they themselves shall do no work. Thus you shall deal with the Levites concerning their obligations."

~~All in Preparation for the journey~~

please join me as I move on from here to Numbers 9:1-23

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Numbers 7:1-89

No photos today...My blogger photos are down...
But I would like to wish you a

Happy Valentine's Day :o)



Today we read through Numbers 7:1-89



I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here.



Numbers 7


Offerings of the Leaders


1Now on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed it and consecrated it with all its furnishings and the altar and all its utensils; he anointed them and consecrated them also.


2Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers' households, made an offering (they were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who were over the numbered men).


3When they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart for every two of the leaders and an ox for each one, then they presented them before the tabernacle.


4Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,


5"Accept these things from them, that they may be used in the service of the tent of meeting, and you shall give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service."


6So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.
7Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service,


8and four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
9But he did not give any to the sons of Kohath because theirs was the service of the holy objects, which they carried on the shoulder.


10The leaders offered the dedication offering for the altar when it was anointed, so the leaders offered their offering before the altar.


11Then the LORD said to Moses, "Let them present their offering, one leader each day, for the dedication of the altar."


12Now the one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah;


13and his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
14one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;


15one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
16(L)one male goat for a sin offering;


17and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


18On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented an offering;


19he presented as his offering one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


20one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
21one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
22one male goat for a sin offering;
23and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.


24On the third day it was Eliab the son of Helon, leader of the sons of Zebulun;
25his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
26one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;


27one young bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
28one male goat for a sin offering;


29and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
30On the fourth day it was Elizur the son of Shedeur, leader of the sons of Reuben;


31his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
32one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;


33one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
34one male goat for a sin offering;


35and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
36On the fifth day it was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, leader of the children of Simeon;


37his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


38one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
39one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
40one male goat for a sin offering;
41and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


42On the sixth day it was Eliasaph the son of Deuel, leader of the sons of Gad;
43his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


44one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
45one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
46one male goat for a sin offering;


47and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
48On the seventh day it was Elishama the son of Ammihud, leader of the sons of Ephraim;


49his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


50one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
51one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
52one male goat for a sin offering;


53and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.


54On the eighth day it was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, leader of the sons of Manasseh;


55his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


56one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
57one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
58one male goat for a sin offering;
59and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
60On the ninth day it was Abidan the son of Gideoni, leader of the sons of Benjamin;
61his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


62one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
63one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
64one male goat for a sin offering;
65and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
66On the tenth day it was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, leader of the sons of Dan;


67his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


68one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
69one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
70one male goat for a sin offering;
71and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


72On the eleventh day it was Pagiel the son of Ochran, leader of the sons of Asher;
73his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


74one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
75one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
76one male goat for a sin offering;


77and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.
78On the twelfth day it was Ahira the son of Enan, leader of the sons of Naphtali;
79his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
80one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
81one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
82one male goat for a sin offering;
83and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.


84This was the dedication offering for the altar from the leaders of Israel when it was anointed: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver bowls, twelve gold pans,
85each silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty shekels and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the utensils was 2,400 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;


86the twelve gold pans, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the pans 120 shekels;
87all the oxen for the burnt offering twelve bulls, all the rams twelve, the male lambs one year old with their grain offering twelve, and the male goats for a sin offering twelve;


88and all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace offerings 24 bulls, all the rams 60, the male goats 60, the male lambs one year old 60. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.
89Now when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim, so He spoke to him.



~~all in preperation for a journey~~



Please join me in reading Numbers 8:1-26

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Numbers 6:1-27

Hello and Welcome...Today we read through Numbers 6:1-27

I am using the NASB version of the bible. You may change it if you like by clicking here.

Numbers 6

Law of the Nazirites

1Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself to the LORD,

3he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes.

4'All the days of his separation he shall not eat anything that is produced by the grape vine, from the seeds even to the skin.

5'All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the LORD; he shall let the locks of hair on his head grow long.

6'All the days of his separation to the LORD he shall not go near to a dead person.
7'He shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head.

8'All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.
9'But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated head of hair, then he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; he shall shave it on the seventh day.

10'Then on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting.
11'The priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him concerning his sin because of the dead person. And that same day he shall consecrate his head,

12and shall dedicate to the LORD his days as a Nazirite, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his separation was defiled.

13'Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall bring the offering to the doorway of the tent of meeting.

14'He shall present his offering to the LORD: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering and one ewe-lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering and one ram without defect for a peace offering,

15and a basket of unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread with oil, along with their grain offering and their drink offering.
16'Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

17'He shall also offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, together with the basket of unleavened cakes; the priest shall likewise offer its grain offering and its drink offering.

18'The Nazirite shall then shave his dedicated head of hair at the doorway of the tent of meeting, and take the dedicated hair of his head and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.

19'The priest shall take the ram's shoulder when it has been boiled, and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his dedicated hair.

20'Then the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. It is holy for the priest, together with the breast offered by waving and the thigh offered by lifting up; and afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.'

21"This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD according to his separation, in addition to what else he can afford; according to his vow which he takes, so he shall do according to the law of his separation."

Aaron's Benediction

22Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them:
24The LORD bless you, and keep you;
25The LORD make His face shine on you,
And be gracious to you;
26The LORD lift up His countenance on you,
And give you peace.'
27"So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I then will bless them."

~~Please join me in reading Numbers 7:1-89 (and grab your coffee...it's another long one :o)

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Leviticus 5:1-31

Hello and Welcome...Today we read through Leviticus 5:1-31

I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here.

Numbers 5

On Defilement

1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2"Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a discharge and everyone who is unclean because of a dead person.

3"You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they will not defile their camp where I dwell in their midst."
4The sons of Israel did so and sent them outside the camp; just as the LORD had spoken to Moses, thus the sons of Israel did.

5Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
6"Speak to the sons of Israel, 'When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against the LORD, and that person is guilty,
7then he shall confess his sins which he has committed, and he shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it, and give it to him whom he has wronged.

8'But if the man has no relative to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution which is made for the wrong must go to the LORD for the priest, besides the ram of atonement, by which atonement is made for him.
9'Also every contribution pertaining to all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they offer to the priest, shall be his.

10'So every man's holy gifts shall be his; whatever any man gives to the priest, it becomes his.'"

The Adultery Test

11Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
12"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'If any man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

13and a man has intercourse with her and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is undetected, although she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act,
14if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has defiled herself, or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has not defiled herself,

15the man shall then bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring as an offering for her one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, a reminder of iniquity.

16'Then the priest shall bring her near and have her stand before the LORD,
17and the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel; and he shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

18'The priest shall then have the woman stand before the LORD and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and place the grain offering of memorial in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy, and in the hand of the priest is to be the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

19'The priest shall have her take an oath and shall say to the woman, "If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone astray into uncleanness, being under the authority of your husband, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings a curse;

20if you, however, have gone astray, being under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you"
21(then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), "the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people by the LORD'S making your thigh waste away and your abdomen swell;

22and this water that brings a curse shall go into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh waste away." And the woman shall say, "Amen. Amen."

23'The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall wash them off into the water of bitterness.

24'Then he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings a curse, so that the water which brings a curse will go into her and cause bitterness.

25'The priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman's hand, and he shall wave the grain offering before the LORD and bring it to the altar;
26and the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial offering and offer it up in smoke on the altar, and afterward he shall make the woman drink the water.

27'When he has made her drink the water, then it shall come about, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings a curse will go into her and cause bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will waste away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

28'But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will then be free and conceive children.

29'This is the law of jealousy: when a wife, being under the authority of her husband, goes astray and defiles herself,

30or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he shall then make the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest shall apply all this law to her.

31'Moreover, the man will be free from guilt, but that woman shall bear her guilt.'"

Please join me in reading Leviticus 6:1-27

Monday, February 11, 2008

Leviticus 4:1-49

Hello and Welcome back. Today we are reading Leviticus 4:1-49

I am using the NASB version of the bible but you may change it if you like by clicking here.


Numbers 4

Duties of the Kohathites

1Then the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
2"Take a census of the descendants of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' households,

3from thirty years and upward, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tent of meeting.

4"This is the work of the descendants of Kohath in the tent of meeting, concerning the most holy things.

5"When the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and they shall take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it;
6and they shall lay a covering of porpoise skin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth of pure blue, and shall insert its poles.

7"Over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall also spread a cloth of blue and put on it the dishes and the pans and the sacrificial bowls and the jars for the drink offering, and the continual bread shall be on it.

8"They shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet material, and cover the same with a covering of porpoise skin, and they shall insert its poles.

9"Then they shall take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand for the light, along with its lamps and its snuffers, and its trays and all its oil vessels, by which they serve it;

10and they shall put it and all its utensils in a covering of porpoise skin, and shall put it on the carrying bars.

11"Over the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth and cover it with a covering of porpoise skin, and shall insert its poles;

12and they shall take all the utensils of service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth and cover them with a covering of porpoise skin, and put them on the carrying bars.

13"Then they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth over it.

14"They shall also put on it all its utensils by which they serve in connection with it: the firepans, the forks and shovels and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread a cover of porpoise skin over it and insert its poles.

15"When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is to set out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them, so that they will not touch the holy objects and die. These are the things in the tent of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.

16"The responsibility of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light and the fragrant incense and the continual grain offering and the anointing oil--the responsibility of all the tabernacle and of all that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings."

17Then the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

18"Do not let the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites.
19"But do this to them that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each of them to his work and to his load;

20but they shall not go in to see the holy objects even for a moment, or they will die."

Duties of the Gershonites

21Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
22"Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' households, by their families;

23from thirty years and upward to fifty years old, you shall number them; all who enter to perform the service to do the work in the tent of meeting.
24"This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in carrying:

25they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering and the covering of porpoise skin that is on top of it, and the screen for the doorway of the tent of meeting,

26and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the doorway of the gate of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords and all the equipment for their service; and all that is to be done, they shall perform.

27"All the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their loads and in all their work, shall be performed at the command of Aaron and his sons; and you shall assign to them as a duty all their loads.

28"This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their duties shall be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Duties of the Merarites

29"As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers' households;

30from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, you shall number them, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the tent of meeting.
31"Now this is the duty of their loads, for all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle and its bars and its pillars and its sockets,
32and the pillars around the court and their sockets and their pegs and their cords, with all their equipment and with all their service; and you shall assign each man by name the items he is to carry.

33"This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."

34So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families and by their fathers' households,
35from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tent of meeting.

36Their numbered men by their families were 2,750.
37These are the numbered men of the Kohathite families, everyone who was serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD through Moses.

38The numbered men of the sons of Gershon by their families and by their fathers' households,

39from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tent of meeting.

40Their numbered men by their families, by their fathers' households, were 2,630.
41These are the numbered men of the families of the sons of Gershon, everyone who was serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD.

42The numbered men of the families of the sons of Merari by their families, by their fathers' households,

43from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tent of meeting.

44Their numbered men by their families were 3,200.
45These are the numbered men of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD through Moses.

46All the numbered men of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel numbered, by their families and by their fathers' households,
47from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who could enter to do the work of service and the work of carrying in the tent of meeting.
48Their numbered men were 8,580.

49According to the commandment of the LORD through Moses, they were numbered, everyone by his serving or carrying; thus these were his numbered men, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

~~When they broke camp. Judah and eastern tribes led the march. In center, the Tabernacle was bulwarked with southern and western tribes; northern tribes bringing up the rear. (Halley's handbook)~~

Please join me in reading Leviticus 5:1-31