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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. Tomorrow, we wrap up two months of reading the Bible together. So far, you've spent an estimated 12 hours reading the Bible and approximately eight hours listening to this podcast. If you're already two months in with us, I'm assuming you're in this for the long haul.
You're not the person who started in hopes of making it happen, but faded out two weeks in. You're still here. That's huge. And I'm so grateful God keeps drawing you in to read His Word. Today, we opened up our longest and most repetitive chapter yet with some offerings for the Levites initiated by the heads of other tribes.
They gave the Gershonites and the Merarites ox carts to use as their tabernacle luggage, but the Kohathites didn't get any ox carts because they have to carry things on their shoulders, according to the text. This is a reference to the poles we've already read and talked about, which went over their shoulders.
By the way, I keep mentioning these poles because I'm setting us up to understand something that happens in the future. After they gave the ox carts and the oxen, they set up a dedication ceremony, and God established the offerings that would come from each tribe during that process.
Each tribe was assigned one day out of the 12-day ceremony, where the leaders of each tribe would bring the offerings to the tabernacle. Starting with Judah taking the lead on day one, they worked their way around the encampment clockwise. Each of the tribes, regardless of size, gave the Levites the same contribution to show that they each fully supported them.
The Levites couldn't do this on their own. They needed help from the people. At the end of this 12-day dedication period, Moses went into the tabernacle to hear the Lord speaking to him, and that's where my God shot came in. Kind of obvious for today, I know. But it was the culmination of the previous 88 verses that were building up to all this that made it so beautiful.
This was what it was all for. Animals and ceremony and silver basins. None of it would mean anything if this moment at the end weren't happening. A holy God drawing near to speak to sinful humans.
All these offerings amounted to 12 plates with a total weight of over 1,500 shekels, 12 basins with a total weight of 800 shekels, 12 golden dishes weighing 120 shekels, oil and flour and incense, 6 carts and 264 animals.
These offerings served a purpose not only to bless the Levites, but also to bless all the people and to connect the hearts of the tribes to the Levites and what they were doing, ultimately connecting them back to God. Jesus taught us that heart follows treasure.
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