Day 59: Obligations to God (2025)
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Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're 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. This is day 59, and so we will be reading two chapters from Numbers. It's Numbers chapter eight and chapter nine, as well as Deuteronomy chapter eight, just the one in Deuteronomy, We'll be praying through Psalm 93. As always, I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition, and I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. You can get that at ascensionpress.com or wherever Bibles are sold. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year.
And if you haven't, one last thing, if you haven't yet subscribed to this podcast app or rated it or whatever, please do that. If you want to give it a Good review, that's great. If you want to give it a bad review, that's also great because if that is your opinion, then you don't have to keep it to yourself. As I said, today is day 59. We're reading chapters 8 and 9 of Numbers, chapter 8 of Deuteronomy, praying Psalm 93. Numbers chapter 8, the seven lamps. Now the Lord said to Moses, say to Aaron, when you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand. And Aaron did so. He set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand as the Lord commanded Moses. And 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. the Levites consecration and service. And the Lord said to Moses, take the Levites from among the sons of Israel and cleanse them.
And thus shall you do to them to cleanse them, sprinkle the water of expiation upon them and let them go with a razor over all their body and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves. Then let them take a young bull and its cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil. And you shall take another bull for a sin offering. And you shall present the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the whole congregation of the sons of Israel. When you present the Levites before the Lord, the sons of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the sons of Israel. that it may be theirs to do the service of the Lord. Then the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the Lord to make atonement for the Levites. And you shall cause the Levites to attend Aaron and his sons and shall offer them as a wave offering to the Lord.
Thus shall you separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. And after that, the Levites shall go into due service at the tent of meeting when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering. For they are wholly given to me from among the sons of Israel. Instead of all that opened the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel, I have taken them for myself. For all the firstborn among the sons of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast. On the day that I slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated them for myself. And I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel. And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the sons of Israel to do the service for the sons of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the sons of Israel that there may be no plague among the sons of Israel in case the sons of Israel should come near the sanctuary.
Thus did Moses and Aaron in all the congregation of the sons of Israel to the Levites, according to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the sons of Israel did to them. And the Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes. And Aaron offered them as a wave offering before the Lord. And Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.
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