Fr. Mike clarifies some questions surrounding the Tribe of Levi and talks about what it means to be held to a higher standard as a leader in your community. Numbers 3, Deuteronomy 3, and Psalm 87. 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 54 in the Bible in a Year podcast?
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discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today it is day 54 and today we're going to be reading from numbers chapter 3 and deuteronomy chapter 3 keeping a pace with those two stories those two books as well as praying psalm 87. the bible translation that i'm using is the revised standard version the second catholic edition i'm using the great adventure bible from ascension if you want to download your own bible into your reading plan
Simply visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. You can download that for free. And make sure you subscribe on your podcast app to receive the daily episodes. But let's get started. The book of Numbers, chapter three, the sons of Aaron. These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
Chapter 2: Who are the sons of Aaron mentioned in Numbers 3?
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests whom he ordained to minister in the priest's office But Nabab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered unholy fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children.
So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the lifetime of Aaron their father. duties of the Levites. And the Lord said to Moses, bring the tribe of Levi near and set them before Aaron the priest that they may minister to him. They shall perform duties for him and for the whole congregation before the tent of meeting as they minister at the tabernacle.
Chapter 3: Why is the Tribe of Levi significant in Numbers?
They shall have charge of all the furnishings of the tent of meeting and attend to the duties of the sons of Israel as they minister at the tabernacle. And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons. They are wholly given to him from among the sons of Israel. And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons and they shall attend to their priesthood.
But if anyone else comes near, he shall be put to death. And the Lord said to Moses, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of every firstborn that opens the womb among the sons of Israel. The Levites shall be mine, for all the firstborn are mine.
On the day that I slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for my own all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and of beast. They shall be mine. I am the Lord. Census of the Levites. And the Lord said to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, Number the sons of Levi by father's houses and by families. Every male from a month old and upward you shall number.
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord as he was commanded. And these were the sons of Levi by their names, Gershon and Kohath and Merari. And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families, Libni and Shemii. And the sons of Kohath by their families, Amram, Ishhar, Hebron and Uziel. And the sons of Merari by their families, Mali and Mushi.
Chapter 4: How were the duties distributed among the Levitical families?
These are the families of the Levites by their fathers' houses. Of Gershon were the families of the Libnites and the families of the Shemaites. These were the families of the Gershonites. Their number, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, was 7,500.
The families of the Gershonites were to encamp behind the tabernacle on the west, with Eliasaph, the son of Lael, as the head of the father's house of the Gershonites.
And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting was to be the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the door of the tent of meeting, the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar and its cords, all the service pertaining to these.
Of Kohath were the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Isurites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzielites. These are the families of all the Kohathites. According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were 8,600 attending to the duties of the sanctuary.
The families of the sons of Kohath were to encamp on the south side of the tabernacle, with Elizaphan, the son of Uziel, as the head of the father's house of the families of the Kohathites. And their charge was to be the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen, all the service pertaining to these.
And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, was to be chief over the leaders of the Levites, and to have oversight of those who had charge of the sanctuary. Of Merari were the family of the Malites and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari. Their number according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 6,200.
And the head of the father's house of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son of Abihel. They were to encamp on the north side of the tabernacle. And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari was to be the frames of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the bases, and all their accessories, all the service pertaining to these.
Also the pillars of the court round about with their bases and pegs and cords. And those to encamp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, having charge of the rites within the sanctuary. Whatever had to be done for the sons of Israel, And anyone else who came near was to be put to death.
All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the Lord by families, all the males from a month old and upward, were 22,000. redemption of the firstborn. And the Lord said to Moses, Number all the firstborn males of the sons of Israel, from a month old and upward, taking their number by names.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the redemption of the firstborn?
And you shall take the Levites for me, I am the Lord, instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the sons of Israel. So Moses numbered all the firstborn among the sons of Israel as the Lord commanded him.
In all the firstborn males, according to the number of names from a month old and upward, as numbered were 22,273. And the Lord said to Moses, Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.
And for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the sons of Israel, over and above the number of the male Levites, you shall take five shekels apiece, reckoning by the shekel of the sanctuary the shekel of twenty gerahs, you shall take them, and give the money by which the excess number of them is redeemed to Aaron and his sons.
So Moses took the redemption money, and those who were over and above those redeemed by the Levites from the firstborn of the sons of Israel, he took the money, 1,365 shekels, reckoned by the shekel of the sanctuary. And Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
The book of Deuteronomy chapter 3. The defeat of Og, the king of Bashan.
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Chapter 6: What happened in the defeat of Og, the king of Bashan?
Moses continued. Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og, the king of Bashan, came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. But the Lord said to me, Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon.
So the Lord our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we struck him until no survivor was left to him. And we took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we did not take from them, sixty cities, the whole region of Argab, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
all these cities were fortified with high gates walls and bars besides very many unwalled villages and we utterly destroyed them as we did to sihan the king of heshbon according to every city men women and children but all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as our booty
So he took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon. The Sidonians called Hermon Sirion, while the Amorites call it Sinir. All the cities of the table land and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Seleka and Edrei,
cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, for only Og, the king of Bashan, was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.
When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites, the territory beginning at Aroar, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities. The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, all the region of the Argab, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh.
The whole of that Bashan is called the land of Rephaim. jair the manasite took all the region of argab that is bashan as far as the border of the geshurites and the makathites and called the villages after his own name havath jair as it is to this day
To Makir I gave Gilead, and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the valley of Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a boundary, as far over as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites. The Arabah also, with the Jordan as the boundary, from Chinareth as far as the sea of Arabah, the salt sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor shall pass over armed before your brethren, the sons of Israel.
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