Fr. Mike breaks down the three types of law we find in Leviticus, including moral laws regarding sexuality. Today's readings are Exodus 24, Leviticus 17-18, and Psalm 78. 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.
Chapter 1: Who is hosting the Bible in a Year podcast?
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.
Chapter 2: What is today's Bible reading plan?
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 42. Let's keep on rolling. Today, we're going to be reading from Exodus chapter 24. That's Exodus 24. then Leviticus 17 and 18, and then Psalm 78.
As always, I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition, actually from the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. You can get that at ascensionpress.com or wherever you buy your Bibles. Also, if you want to be able to follow along, I know we're on day 42 already, and one of the great things that I find is I look at this sheet that I printed out
Actually, it's sheets because it's more than one piece of paper of all of the days and all the readings for all the days. And I get to cross out one reading a day. And it's great to be able to see, like, I'm making progress. Sometimes when we're just kind of hitting play on our podcast, it's like, well... I don't know, I mean, am I really getting anywhere? And the answer is, yes, you are.
Chapter 3: How does Father Mike suggest keeping track of daily readings?
You're on day 42 right now. Sometimes it's really helpful to have, though, that sheet of paper printed off at that Bible India reading plant, and then I take a marker. It is a blue marker because I like that color. And I just cross off the day as I've completed the reading for the day. And it just, yeah, it makes me feel like I'm going somewhere.
Obviously, moving to the Bible makes you feel like you're going somewhere too, but that's my tip and little practice that I have. So you can get that Bible in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. I also realize I've been speaking a little quickly right now. I apologize for that. I'm going to slow it on down.
You can subscribe in your podcast app if you haven't yet done that. It is one of the things that I like. being able to see how every day, here is the podcast. It pops up and just, bam, it's a reminder for me of, yeah, let's read through, let's listen through the Bible. But as I said, today we're reading Exodus 24, Leviticus 17 and 18, and then Psalm 78.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of Exodus 24 in the Bible?
Exodus chapter 24, the blood of the covenant. And he said to Moses, come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and 70 of the elders of Israel and worship afar off. Moses alone shall come near to the Lord, but the others shall not come near and the people shall not come up with him. Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordinances.
And all the people answered with one voice and said, all the words which the Lord has spoken, we will do. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. And he rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and 12 pillars, according to the 12 tribes of Israel.
And he sent young men of the sons of Israel who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord and And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he threw against the altar. Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.
And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, Behold, the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words. on the mountain of God. Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, and they saw the God of Israel.
And there was under his feet, as it were, a pavement of sapphire stone, like a very heaven for clearness. And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel. They beheld God and ate and drank. The Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.
So Moses rose with his servant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God and And he said to the elders, Wait here for us until we come to you again. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a cause, let him go to them. Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days.
And on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the sons of Israel. And Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
the book of Leviticus chapters 17 and 18.
The slaughter of animals. And the Lord said to Moses, say to Aaron and his sons and to all the sons of Israel, this is the thing which the Lord has commanded. If any man of the house of Israel kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp or kills it outside the camp and does not bring it to the door of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, He says,
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Chapter 5: Why is blood significant in Leviticus 17?
And you shall say to them, any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among them who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice and does not bring it to the door of the tent of meeting to sacrifice it to the Lord, that man shall be cut off from his people. eating of blood forbidden.
If any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls." For it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life.
Therefore I have said to the sons of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood. Any man also of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust. For the life of every creature is the blood of it.
Therefore I have said to the sons of Israel, you shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off. And every person that eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening, and he shall be clean.
But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, he shall bear his iniquity. And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the sons of Israel, I am the Lord your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you dwelt, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.
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Chapter 6: What moral laws are discussed in Leviticus 18?
You shall do my ordinances and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances by doing which a man shall live. I am the Lord. Laws concerning sexual relations None of you shall approach anyone near of kin to him to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife. It is your father's nakedness. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.
you shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter for their nakedness is your own nakedness you shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter begotten by your father since she is your sister you shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister she is your father's near kinswoman
you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister for she is your mother's near kinswoman you shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother that is you shall not approach his wife she is your aunt you shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law she is your son's wife you shall not uncover her nakedness You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife.
She is your brother's nakedness. You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness. They are your near kinswoman. It is wickedness. And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is yet alive.
You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her. You shall not give any of your children to devote them by fire to Moloch. And so profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.
And you shall not lie with any beast and defile yourself with it, neither shall any woman give herself to a beast to lie with it. It is perversion. Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am casting out before you defile themselves. and the land became defiled, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and do none of these abominations either to the native or the stranger who sojourns among you. For all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, so that the land became defiled. Lest the land vomit you out when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
For whoever shall do any of these abominations, the persons that do them shall be cut off from among their people. So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and never to defile yourselves by them.
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Chapter 7: How does Psalm 78 describe God's relationship with Israel?
the wonders which he has wrought he established a testimony in jacob and appointed a law in israel which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children that the next generation might know them the children yet unborn and arise and tell them to their children so that they should set their hope in god and not forget the works of god but keep his commandments
and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God. The Ephraimites, armed with a bow, turned back on the day of battle. They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law. They forgot what he had done and the miracles that he had shown them.
In the sight of their fathers, he wrought marvels in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan, He divided the sea and let them pass through it. He made the waters stand like a heap. In the daytime, he led them with a cloud and all the night with a fiery light. He cleft rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
He made streams come out of the rock and caused waters to flow down like the rivers. Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the most high in the desert. They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved. They spoke against God saying, can God spread a table in the wilderness? He struck the rock so that the water gushed out and streams overflowed.
Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people? Therefore, when the Lord heard he was full of wrath, a fire was kindled against Jacob. His anger mounted against Israel because they had no faith in God and did not trust his saving power. Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven and he rained down upon them manna to eat and gave them the bread of heaven.
Man ate of the bread of the angels. He sent them food in abundance. He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he let out the south wind. He rained down flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas. He let them fall in the midst of their camp and all around their habitations. And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
But before they had sated their craving, while the food was still in their mouths, the anger of God rose against them, and he slew the strongest of them and laid low the picked men of Israel. In spite of all this, they still sinned. Despite his wonders, they did not believe. So he made their days vanish like a breath and their years in terror. When he slew them, they sought for him.
They repented and sought God earnestly. They remembered that God was their rock. The Most High was their Redeemer. But they flattered him with their mouths. They lied to him with their tongues. Their heart was not steadfast toward him. They were not true to his covenant. Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them.
He restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath. He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
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