JULY 16, 2022 Numbers 7:2-3 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, who were the leaders of the tribes and over those who were numbered, made an offering. And they brought their offering before the Lord. According to the text, as soon as Moses had set up the Sanctuary and consecrated it, the leaders of the twelve […]
JULY 15, 2022 Numbers 6:23-27 This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel. Say to them: “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.” So they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and I will bless […]
JULY 14 2022 Numbers 6:5: All the days of the vow of his separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. As stated previously, during the course of his vow, the Nazirite was not permitted to cut his hair. And […]
JULY 09, 2022 Numbers 5:6-7 When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit in unfaithfulness against the Lord, and that person is guilty, then he shall confess the sin which he has committed. This passage begs the question: “Can a person truly repent if there is no confession of the sin?” Furthermore, if […]
JULY 12, 2022 Numbers 5:27-28 When he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, that the water that brings a curse will enter her and become bitter … But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be free […]
JULY 13, 2022 Numbers 6:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: “When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, he shall separate himself to the Lord.” In previous chapters, emphasis was sometimes placed on situations where someone would be considered unclean in regard to the Sanctuary […]
JULY 9, 2022 Numbers 5:1-2 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.” If we understand that the sanctity of the Sanctuary had to be maintained, it stands to reason that the camp, itself, had to ritually […]
JULY 11, 2022 Numbers 5:12, 14-15 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: “If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him … if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and […]
JULY 8, 2022 Numbers 4:29, 31 As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families and by their fathers’ house….And this is what they must carry as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its’ pillars, its’ sockets. Anyone who follows football or other such team sports understands that, […]
JULY 7, 2022 Numbers 4:24-25 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and carrying: They shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of meeting with its covering, the covering of badger skins that is on it, the screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Hearkening back to something we have discussed before, the primacy of […]
JULY 6, 2022 Numbers 4:5-6 When the camp prepares to journey, Aaron and his sons shall come, and they shall take down the covering veil and cover the ark of the Testimony with it. Then they shall put on it a covering of badger skins, and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue, and […]
JULY 5, 2022 Numbers 3:29, 31 The families of the children of Kohath were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle. Their duty included the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, the screen, and all the work relating to them. In keeping with […]
