Fr. Mike points out how blessing something sets it apart for the purposes of God, and it is no longer meant for ordinary uses. So when we are filled with the spirit of God, our daily task becomes extraordinary, because it is consecrated to God. Today's readings are Exodus 30-31, Leviticus 22, and Psalm 115. 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 the host of 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.
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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 46. We keep on rolling. If you have printed out your Bible in a Year reading plan, you have the great honor of being able to flip the page because this is the top of the second page.
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If you have the Bible reading plan in front of you, downloaded or whatever, maybe it's on your computer, maybe it's printed out, you can see that we only have six more days left in this period, this period of Egypt and the Exodus. We only have six more days left to get through Leviticus.
And so if Leviticus has ever given you a problem in the past, or you've gotten hung up in this section of Exodus, where there's a lot of details when it comes to the tabernacle, a lot of details when it comes to the priest's garments or when it comes to the laver.
Chapter 4: What are today's Bible readings about?
You are in for a treat because in six days you will have completed, maybe for the first time ever, the entire book of Leviticus, and maybe for the first time ever, the entire book of Exodus. So speaking of, today we are reading two chapters from Exodus, Exodus chapter 30 and chapter 31, also Leviticus chapter 22, and then our psalm today is Psalm 115.
Chapter 5: What instructions did God give Moses for the altar of incense?
So again, Exodus 30 and 31, Leviticus 22, and Psalm 115. The book of Exodus, chapter 30. The altar of incense. You shall make an altar to burn incense upon. Of acacia wood shall you make it. A cubit shall be its length, a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height.
Its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides round about, and its horns, and you shall make for it a molding of gold round about.
and two rings golden rings shall you make for it under its moulding on two opposite sides of it shall you make them and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold And you shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.
And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps, he shall burn it. And when Aaron sets up the lamps in the evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations." You shall offer no unholy incense thereon, nor burnt offering, nor cereal offering, and you shall pour no libation thereon.
Aaron shall make atonement upon its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement, he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord. the half shekel for the sanctuary.
The Lord said to Moses, when you take the census of the sons of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them. Each who is numbered in the census shall give this, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel is 20 geras, half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.
Everyone who is numbered in the census from 20 years old and upward shall give the Lord's offering. The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than the half shekel when you give the Lord's offering to make atonement for yourselves.
And you shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting that it may bring the sons of Israel to remembrance before the Lord so as to make atonement for yourselves. the bronze laver. The Lord said to Moses, you shall also make a laver of bronze with its base of bronze for washing.
And you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it with which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet. When they go into the tent of meeting. or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering by fire to the Lord, they shall wash with water, lest they die. They shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die.
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Chapter 6: Who are Bezalel and Aholiab and what is their significance?
You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy." Whatever touches them will become holy. And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them that they may serve me as priests. And you shall say to the sons of Israel, this shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.
It shall not be poured upon the bodies of ordinary men, and you shall make no other like it in composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you. Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on an outsider, shall be cut off from his people.
And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacti, and onica, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense, of each there shall be an equal part, and make an incense blended as by the perfumer. seasoned with salt, pure and holy. And you shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the covenant in the tent of meeting, where I shall meet with you.
It shall be for you most holy. And the incense, which you shall make according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves. It shall be for you holy to the Lord. Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people. Chapter 31 Bezalel and Aholiab The Lord said to Moses, See, I have called by name Bezalel, the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood for work in every craft.
And behold, I have appointed with him Aholiab, the son of Ahesamach of the tribe of Dan, and I have given to all able men ability that they may make all that I have commanded you, the tent of meeting, and the ark of the covenant, and the mercy seat that is thereon, and all the furnishings of the tent, the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils.
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Chapter 7: What are the rules regarding the Sabbath?
in the altar of incense and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, in the laver and its base, in the finely worked garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons for their services priests, in the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the holy place. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do. The Sabbath law.
And the Lord said to Moses, say to the sons of Israel, you shall keep my Sabbaths for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations that you may know that I, the Lord sanctify you. You shall keep the Sabbath because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Six days your work shall be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death. Therefore the sons of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.
It is a sign forever between me and the sons of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. The Tables of the Covenant And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, the two tables of the covenant, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
The book of Leviticus chapter 22, the use of holy things.
And the Lord said to Moses, tell Aaron and his sons to keep away from the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they dedicate to me so that they may not profane my holy name. I am the Lord.
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Chapter 8: What are the guidelines for the use of holy things in Leviticus?
Say to them, if anyone of all your descendants throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which the sons of Israel dedicate to the Lord while he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence. I am the Lord. None of the line of Aaron who is a leper or suffers a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean.
Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or a man who has had an emission of semen and whoever touches a creeping thing by which he may be made unclean or a man from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be, the person who touches any such shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.
when the sun is down he shall be clean and afterward he may eat of the holy things because such are his food that which dies of itself or is torn by beasts he shall not eat defiling himself by it i am the lord they shall therefore keep my charge lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it I am the Lord who sanctify them. An outsider shall not eat of a holy thing.
A sojourner of the priests or a hired servant shall not eat of a holy thing. But if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it. And those that are born in his house may eat of his food. If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the offering of the holy things.
But if a priest's daughter is a widow or divorced and has no child and returns to her father's house as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food, yet no outsider shall eat of it. And if a man eats of a holy thing unwittingly, he shall add the fifth of its value to it and give the holy thing to the priest. Acceptable Offerings
And the Lord said to Moses, say to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel, when anyone of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents his offering, whether in payments of a vow or as a freewill offering, which is to be offered to the Lord as a burnt offering. to be accepted, you shall offer a male without blemish of the bulls or of the sheep or the goats.
You shall not offer anything that has a blemish for it will not be acceptable for you. And when anyone offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, To fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted, it must be perfect. There shall be no blemish in it.
Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs, you shall not offer to the Lord or make of them an offering by fire upon the altar to the Lord. A bull or a lamb, which has a part too long or too short, you may present for a freewill offering, but for a votive offering, It cannot be accepted.
Any animal which has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the Lord or sacrifice within your land. Neither shall you offer as the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.
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