In the second week of the In The Wilderness series Lee Woodmansee covers Numbers 5 and 8. These chapters detail God's holy requirements for his people as well as a commissioning ceremony for the Levites. Lee addresses some key questions from our texts:
Why are there portions of ritual or ceremonial Law woven into the narrative?
Why is atonement such a prominent theme in Numbers?
How are we to understand and describe sin?
What makes the Levites so special?
What does all of this have to do with us?