Fr. Mike explains why God repeats some of his instructions for worship and lays out the purpose for the year of jubilee. The readings are Exodus 35-36, Leviticus 25, and Psalm 81. 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 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.
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 49. Let's keep on going. We're reading from two chapters in Exodus. We're coming to the end of Exodus, Exodus chapter 35 and 36. We're also reading
Chapter 2: What are we reading today in the Bible?
from the third to last chapter in the book of Leviticus, Leviticus 25, as well as praying Psalm 81. As always, I am reading both from the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. As always, I'm reading using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your Bible in a Year reading plan, just visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year.
If you want to buy one of those Great Adventure Bibles, you also can get that at ascensionpress.com. If you haven't yet subscribed in your podcast app, I invite you to do that. whenever you get the chance, maybe even like literally right now, just crush that subscribe button. As I said, today, we're reading from Exodus chapter 35 and 36. We're leaving a little bit of the narrative.
We visited the narrative for a bit, right? We had a little digression where we talked about the tabernacle, talked about the labor, talked about all these, the elements of temple worship. Then we got back to the story with the golden calf and And we're also going to go back to the story clearly, but also some Sabbath regulations for the tabernacle and for the offerings brought into the tabernacle.
Some of this is going to sound familiar. You've already heard this in Exodus and you've heard this in Leviticus. And that's why God, he was just repeating this, these instructions, which one of the things that reminds me is not just that, wow, this is kind of repetitive, but that it's important.
Chapter 3: Why are certain instructions repeated in the Bible?
We repeat the things that are important and we highlight those things that are important by uttering them again. And one of the things that my older brother will say is that he's like, dude, whenever you're preaching, you just repeat the same thing over and over.
I'm like, yeah, dude, because we remember stuff that when it gets repeated over and over again, and here is the Lord repeating a bit of what he has already said in Leviticus and what he's even already said some of these things in the book of Exodus. But it's important for us because it is revealing the heart of worship.
When it comes to Sabbath, when it comes to the tabernacle, when it comes from the offerings that are brought into the tabernacle, it is all about worship. And there's nothing, there's no greater human act that anyone could do than the act of worship. And that's one of the reasons why the Lord God continues to instruct us in that teaching, teaching of worship.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of the Sabbath regulations?
So without anything further, Exodus chapter 35 and 36, Sabbath Regulations. Moses assembled all the congregation of the sons of Israel and said to them, these are the things which the Lord has commanded you to do. Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day, you shall have a holy Sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
You shall kindle no fire in all your habitations on the Sabbath day. Preparations for making the tabernacle. Moses said to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, this is the thing which the Lord has commanded. Take from among you an offering to the Lord, whoever is of generous heart.
Let him bring the Lord's offering, gold, silver, and bronze, blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, goat's hair, tanned ram's skins and goat skins, acacia wood, oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.
And let every able man among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded, the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars and its bases, the ark with its poles, the mercy seat and the veil of the screen, the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the presence.
Chapter 5: How was the tabernacle constructed according to Exodus?
The lamp stands also for the light with its utensils and its lamps and the oil for its light.
and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle, the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the laver, and its base, the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the screens for the gate of the court, the pegs of the tabernacle, and the pegs of the court, and their cords,
the finely wrought garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons for their service as priests. offerings brought for the tabernacle.
Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel departed from the presence of Moses, and they came, every one whose heart stirred him, and every one whose spirit moved him, and brought the Lord's offering to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.
So they came, both men and women, all who were of a willing heart, brought brooches, and earrings, and signet rings, and armlets, all sorts of gold objects." every man dedicating an offering of gold to the Lord. And every man with whom was found blue or purple or scarlet stuff or fine linen or goat's hairs or tanned ram's skins or goat skins brought them.
Everyone who could make an offering of silver or bronze brought it as the Lord's offering. And every man with whom was found acacia wood of any use in the work brought it. And all the women who had ability spun with their hands and brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen. All the women whose hearts were moved with ability spun the goat's hair.
And the leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastpiece and spices and oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense. All the men and women, the sons of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work which the Lord had commanded by Moses to be done, brought it as a freewill offering to the Lord.
Bezalel and Aholiab received the offerings. And Moses said to the sons of Israel, See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, and of the tribe of Judah. And he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship.
to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, in cutting stones for setting and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Aholiab, the son of Ahesamach of the tribe of Dan.
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Chapter 6: What are the laws for the Sabbatical Year in Leviticus?
They were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet stuff with cherubim skillfully worked. The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had the same measure. and he coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.
And he made loops of blue on the edge of the outmost curtain of the first set. Likewise, he made them on the edge of the outmost curtain of the second set. He made 50 loops on the one curtain, and he made 50 loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set. The loops were opposite one another."
And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to the other with clasps, so that the tabernacle was one whole. He also made curtains of goat's hair, for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains. The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains had the same measure.
He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outmost curtain of the one set and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain. And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be one whole. And he made for the tent a covering of tanned ram's skins and goat skins.
Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood. Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame. Each frame had two tenons for fitting together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.
The frames for the tabernacle he made thus, twenty frames for the south side, and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty 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, he made 20 frames and the 40 bases of silver.
Two bases under one frame and two bases under another frame. And for the rear of the tabernacle westward, he made six frames. And he made two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear And they were separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring. He made two of them thus for the two corners.
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Chapter 7: What is the Year of Jubilee and its purpose?
There were eight frames, with their bases of silver, sixteen bases under every frame, two bases. And he made 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 tabernacle at the rear westward. And he made the middle bar to pass from end to end halfway up the frames.
And he overlaid the frames with gold. And he made their rings of gold for holders for the bars and overlaid the bars with gold. And he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen. With cherubim skillfully worked he made it. And for it he made four pillars of acacia and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold and he cast for them four bases of silver.
He also made a screen for the door of the tent of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen embroidered with needlework and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets were of gold, but their five bases were of bronze.
The Book of Leviticus Chapter 25 The Sabbatical Year The Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai, Say to the sons of Israel, When you come into the land which I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits.
But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard, What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves, and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you. For your cattle also, and for the beasts that are in the land, all its yield shall be for food." the year of Jubilee.
And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years. Then you shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seven-month,
On the day of atonement, you shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land, and you shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty through all the land, in all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his property, and each of you shall return to his family.
a jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines for it is a jubilee it shall be holy to you you shall eat what it yields out of the field In this year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his property. And if you sell to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
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