Fr. Mike provides us with a mental picture of the ark of the covenant and reminds that the small details of worship matter as we read Exodus 25-26, Leviticus 19, and Psalm 119:1-56 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: What is the focus of Day 43 in the Bible in a Year podcast?
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 your 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 43 let's keep on trucking we're moving ahead we're reading from exodus chapter
Both chapters 25 and 26 today, learning about not only the temple, learning about worship, learning about the Ark of the Covenant. That's Exodus 25 and 26. Also Leviticus chapter 19. We'll be praying today. Psalm 119 verses 1 through 56. As always, I'm reading from the revised standard version, the second Catholic edition. I'm actually using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
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The Lord said to Moses, speak to the sons of Israel that they take for me an offering from every man whose heart makes him willing, you shall receive the offering for me. And this is the offering which you shall receive from them. Gold, silver and bronze, blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, goat's hair, tanned ram's skins, goat skins, acacia wood,
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Chapter 2: What are the components of the Ark of the Covenant?
oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece. And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell in their midst. According to all that I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, of all its furniture, so you shall make it. The Ark of the Covenant.
They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. And you shall overlay it with pure gold. Within and without shall you overlay it. And you shall make upon it a molding of gold round about.
And you shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it and two rings on the other side of it. You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them. The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.
And you shall put into the ark the covenant which I shall give you. Then you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. And you shall make two cherubim of gold. Of hammered work shall you make them on the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub on the one end and one cherub on the other end.
Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another. Toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. And you shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark. And in the ark you shall put the covenant that I shall give you.
There I will meet with you. And from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the covenant, I will speak with you of all that I will give you in commandment for the sons of Israel. The table for the bread of the presence. And you shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a molding of gold around it. And you shall make around it a frame of a handbreadth wide and a molding of gold around the frame. And you shall make for it four rings of gold and fasten the rings to the four corners of its four legs. Close to the frame the rings shall be as holders for the poles to carry the table.
You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold and the table shall be carried with these. And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense and its flagons and bowls with which to pour libations. Of pure gold you shall make them. And you shall set the bread of the presence on the table before me always. the lampstand, and you shall make a lampstand of pure gold.
The base and the shaft of the lampstand shall be made of hammered work. Its cups, its capitals, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it, and there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it,
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Chapter 3: How was the Tabernacle designed according to Exodus 26?
Five curtains shall be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another." and you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain on the second set.
Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set. The loops shall be opposite one another, and you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, that the tabernacle may be one whole." You shall also make curtains of goat's hair for a tent over the tabernacle.
Eleven curtains shall you make. The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains shall have the same measure. You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and the sixth curtain you shall double over at the front of the tent.
and you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outmost in one set and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outmost the second set and you shall make fifty clasps of bronze and put the clasps into the loops and couple the tent together that it may be one whole
In the part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtains that remain shall hang over the back of the tabernacle and the cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and that side to cover it.
And you shall make for the tent a covering of tanned rams skins and goat skins.
framework and you shall make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood ten cubits shall be the length of a frame and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame there shall be two tenons in each frame for fitting together so shall you do for all the frames of the tabernacle you shall make the frames for the tabernacle 20 frames for the south side and 40 bases of silver you shall make under the 20 frames two bases under one frame for its two tenons
and two bases under another frame for its two tenons and for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side twenty frames and their forty bases of silver two bases under one frame and two bases under another frame and for the rear of the tabernacle westward you shall make six frames
and you shall make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear they shall be separate beneath but joined at the top at the first ring thus shall it be with both of them they shall form the two corners and there shall be eight frames with their bases of silver sixteen bases two bases under one frame and two bases under another frame
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Chapter 4: What rules are outlined in Leviticus 19 for the Israelites?
you shall make bars of acacia wood five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle and five bars for the frames of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward the middle bar halfway up the frames shall pass through from end to end you shall overlay the frames with gold and shall make their rings of gold for holders for the bars
And you shall overlay the bars with gold and you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it, which has been shown you on the mountain. the veil and the screen. And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen. In skilled work shall it be made with cherubim.
And you shall hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, with hooks of gold, upon four bases of silver. And you shall hang the veil from the clasps and bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. And the veil shall separate for you the holy place from the most holy place.
you shall put the mercy seat upon the ark of the covenant in the most holy place and you shall set the table outside the veil in the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table and you shall put the table on the north side And you shall make a screen for the door of the tent of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen embroidered with needlework.
And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold and you shall cast five bases of bronze for them.
The Book of Leviticus Chapter 19 Ritual and Moral Holiness
And the Lord said to Moses, Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, You shall be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God. Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God.
When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. It shall be eaten the same day you offer it or on the next day and anything left over until the third day shall be burned with fire. If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination.
It will not be accepted and everyone who eats of it shall bear his iniquity because he has profaned a holy thing of the Lord and that person shall be cut off from his people. When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very border. Neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. And you shall not strip your vineyard bare.
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