Fr. Mike underscores the importance of obeying God as he reads from Numbers 4 and Deuteronomy 4. We also read Psalm 88 and learn how it foreshadows the darkness Christ endured on the cross. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you are listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
Using the Great Adventure Bible Timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 55, and we'll be reading from Numbers chapter 4, Deuteronomy chapter 4. We'll be praying Psalm 88.
Just a quick reminder, the Bible translation that I'm using is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition, and I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. You can use and follow along with whatever Bible translation you find most helpful. To download your Bible in a Year reading plan, So you can know what day 54 was and what day 56 is going to be.
You can go to ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year and download that for free. You also can subscribe in your podcast app to receive daily episodes. Now let's get a context for the book of Numbers and for Deuteronomy. Remember, Numbers is taking place at the very beginning of the desert wanderings. They have not yet begun the desert wandering yet because they have not yet
been challenged to go up to take the promised land yet. So this is only 13 months. This is only the second year after the people of Israel have been set free from slavery. So that's the beginning of the desert wanderings while the book of Deuteronomy happens 38 years later after all of the desert wanderings. And so Moses is giving his final speech before he goes off to be with the Lord.
and he dies. So keep that in mind as we hear from Numbers and the story of more issues about census with the Levites, as well as Deuteronomy, where we hear about the rules that Moses is giving the people of Israel after all of their trials and their unfaithfulness and God's faithfulness to them. Today, Numbers chapter 4, Deuteronomy chapter 4, Psalm 88.
The book of Numbers chapter four, the Kohathites. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi by their families and their father's house. from 30 years old up to 50 years old, all who can enter the service to do the work in the tent of meeting. This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, the most holy things.
When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the veil of the screen and cover the Ark of the Covenant with it. Then they shall put on it a covering of goat skin.
and spread over that a cloth all of blue and shall put in its poles and over the table of the bread of the presence they shall spread a cloth of blue and put upon it the plates the dishes for incense the bowls and the flagons for the drink offerings the continual bread also shall be on it
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