Fr. Mike discusses the inheritance given to Zelophehad's daughters. He also highlights the journey of Joshua as Moses' successor, and how Christ is the fulfillment of Joshua's leadership. Today's readings are Numbers 27-28, Deuteronomy 28, and Psalm 112. 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 are Zelophehad's daughters and what is their significance?
and they stood before moses and before eleazar the priest and before the leaders and all the congregation at the door of the tent of meeting saying our father died in the wilderness he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the lord in the company of korah but died for his own sin and he had no sons.
Why should the name of our father be taken away from his family because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father's brethren. Moses brought the case before the Lord, and the Lord said to Moses, the daughters of Zelophehad are right. You shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren and cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
Chapter 2: What inheritance laws were established for Israel?
And you shall say to the sons of Israel, if a man dies and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter. And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers.
And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. And it shall be for the sons of Israel a statute and ordinance, as the Lord commanded Moses. Joshua appointed Moses' successor. The Lord said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abirim and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel.
Chapter 3: How was Joshua appointed as Moses' successor?
And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people as your brother Aaron was gathered, because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin during the strife of the congregation to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. These are the waters of Meribah, of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin.
Moses said to the Lord, Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep which have no shepherd. And the Lord said to Moses, Take Joshua, the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand upon him.
Cause him to stand before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight. You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the sons of Israel may obey. And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word they shall go out.
And at his word they shall come in, both he and all the sons of Israel with him, the whole congregation. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua and caused him to stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation. And he laid his hands upon him and commissioned him as the Lord directed through Moses.
Chapter 28, Daily Offerings.
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Chapter 4: What are the daily and special offerings in Numbers 28?
The Lord said to Moses, command the sons of Israel and say to them, my offering, my food for my offerings by fire, my pleasing odor, you shall take heed to offer me in its due season. And you shall say to them, this is the offering by fire which you shall offer to the Lord. Two male lambs, a year old without blemish, day by day as a continual offering.
The one lamb you shall offer in the morning and the other lamb you shall offer in the evening. Also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil. It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing odor and offering by fire to the Lord. Its drink offering shall be a fourth of a hin for each lamb.
In the holy place, you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the Lord.
the other lamb you shall offer in the evening like the cereal offering of the morning and like its drink offering you shall offer it as an offering by fire a pleasing odor to the lord sabbath offerings on the sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering mixed with oil and its drink offering this is the burnt offering of every sabbath besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering
Monthly offerings. At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord, two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs, a year old without blemish, also three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering mixed with oil for each bull, and two-tenths of fine flour for a cereal offering mixed with oil for the one ram.
and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering for every lamb, for a burnt offering of pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord. Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a fourth of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.
Also, one male goat for a sin offering to the Lord. It shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering in its drink offering. Offerings at Passover. On the 14th day of the first month is the Lord's Passover. And on the 15th day of this month is a feast. Seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. On the first day, there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious work
but offer an offering by fire, a burnt offering to the Lord, two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old. See that they are without blemish. Also their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah shall you offer for a bull and two tenths for a ram. A tenth shall you offer for each of the seven lambs.
Also one male goat for a sin offering to make atonement for you. You shall offer these besides a burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. In the same way, you shall offer daily for seven days the food of an offering by fire, a pleasing order to the Lord. It shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
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Chapter 5: What blessings follow obedience to God in Deuteronomy 28?
If you obey the voice of the Lord, your God. Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading trough.
Blessed shall you be when you come in and blessed shall you be when you go out. The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself as he has sworn to you if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord and they shall be afraid of you.
And the Lord will make you abound in prosperity in the fruit of your body and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground within the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands.
And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail. And you shall tend upward only and not downward if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day, being careful to do them. Warnings against disobedience.
But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God, or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading trough.
Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock. Cursed shall you be when you come in and cursed shall you be when you go out.
The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your doings because you have forsaken me. The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you until he has consumed you off the land which you are entering to take possession of it. The Lord will strike you with consumption and with fever.
inflammation, and fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew, they shall pursue you until you perish. And the heavens over your head shall be brass, and the earth under you shall be iron. The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust. From heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed. The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies.
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Chapter 6: What curses are outlined for disobedience in Deuteronomy 28?
And the Lord will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind. And you shall grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness. And you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually. And there shall be no one to help you. You shall betroth a wife and another man shall lie with her. You shall build a house and you shall not dwell in it.
You shall plant a vineyard and you shall not use the fruit of it. Your ox shall be slain before your eyes and you shall not eat of it. Your donkey shall be violently taken away before your face and shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies and there shall be no one to help you.
Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all the day and it shall not be in the power of your hand to prevent it. A nation which you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors.
And you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually so that you shall be driven mad by the sight which your eyes shall see. The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather little in, for the locusts shall consume it.
You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes for the worm shall eat them. You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil for the olives shall drop off.
you shall beget sons and daughters but they shall not be yours for they shall go into captivity all your trees and the fruit of your ground the locusts shall possess the sojourner who is among you shall mount above you higher and higher and you shall come down lower and lower he shall lend to you and you shall not lend to him he shall be the head and you shall be the tail
All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you. They shall be upon you as a sign and a wonder and upon your descendants forever.
Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart by reason of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and in want of all things. And he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck. until he has destroyed you.
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