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Bible Summary Day 50

Numbers 14:- The people grumbled so the Lord said that they would spend forty years in the wilderness. They went up to the Land but were defeated. Those who do not trust God continually vex themselves. The Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron and in them reproached the Lord. We complain.

Numbers 15:- There is one law for you and for strangers. Make an offering if you sin unintentionally. Anyone who sins defiantly shall be cut off.

In Numbers 11, the people displease God with their complaining. They are dissatisfied with God’s current provision for them in the form of manna and begin to long for Egypt and everything that they enjoyed there (forgetting the bondage and hard times they were under when they were back in Egypt). And so they begin to cry out for meat.

Moses himself then complains to God about the people complaining to him. And I really like how Moses engages with God in such a real way. He says to God, What have I done that you’ve given me these people as a burden? Where am I going to find meat for them? If this is what you’re going to put me through, well you might as well just kill me. Imagine saying all this to God.

Thankfully God has broad shoulders and didn’t respond in the affirmative to Moses’s cry. Instead, God directs Moses to gather 70 men from the elders of Israel to help him and declares He will meet with them and put some of the spirit that is upon Moses upon them. He gives further instructions that the people should prepare to receive the meat that they’ve asked for, and they will get it for 30 days. So God comes up with a solution to the problem.

The spirit then comes upon the men. God sends quail for the people, but sadly they don’t get to enjoy it for as long as they wanted to because a plague is sent upon them and many of them die and are buried in that place.

We then move on to chapter 12 where we see Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses because of his marriage to an Ethiopian woman. God comes down, calls all three of them to come and meet Him at the tabernacle of the congregation, a bit like students being called to the principal’s office. After speaking to them, Miriam becomes leprous, and Moses has to intercede for her. She spends 7 days outside the camp before being brought back in.

The final chapter, chapter 13, finds the people on the verge of entering the Promised Land. Twelve men are chosen, one from each tribe, and they are sent to spy out the land. They spend forty days searching the land and when they return, they give a negative report recounting all the challenges and problems. But Caleb is the first to stand up and say no, let’s go up because we are well able to overcome it.

Summary

Num 8-10

Chp 8 Aaron is given instructions by Moses regarding setting up the lamps

The Levites are set apart from the Israelites and undergoes a ceremonially purifications in order to serve unto to the Lord in the Meeting of Tent

Chp 9 Describes the second Passover and the cloud above the Tabernacle which was used as a means to guide the Israelites on their journey by day and night.

Chp 10 Speaks about trumpets being made of hammered silver and how they would be used to send signals to indicate a community gathering, a signal for setting out to the nest destination and also when they entered land occupied by their enemy, the sound of the trumpet would be used as a reminder to the Lord, and they would be rescued.

The Israelites prepare to leave Sinai and are instructed to leave in specific divisions headed by the commander of each tribe

Bible summary

Numbers 7

The tabernacle of God was dedicated. It was a grand dedication ceremony .

The princes of the tribes of Israel had brought instruments and animals to be used for worship at the tabernacle.

These were handed over to the Levites according to their service in the tabernacle. And the presence of God was in the tabernacle.

The chapter detailed the princes names , what they brought and to which family of the Levites each was given to .

Numbers 4

Just as the Levites were to be leaders of priestly duties, the sons of Kohath had to be hired as employes of the tabernacle.

Numbers 5

Laws regarding restitution making good of , or giving an equivalent for some injury.

Numbers 6

Laws regarding a Nazarite. God himself lays down the rule of their profession.

SUMMARY FROM THE BOOK OF NUMBERS ( chapters 3). 1) talks about the account of the family of Moses and Aaron . 2)it also narrated how God told Moses to count the Levites by their families and clans. 3) it also talks about how God take the Levites from among the Israelites in place of the first male offspring of every Israelites woman.

Numbers 1 – God instructs Moses to number from each of the tribes of Israel every man twenty years and older, able to go forth to war with the exception of the men of the tribe of the Levites. They were assigned to keeping charge of the tabernacle and all that that entailed.

Numbers 2 – God tells Moses how each tribe should be positioned and ranked far off from the tabernacle of the congregation. Each camp was to display their family’s banner and set up as instructed.

Bible Summary Day 43

Leviticus 26: This chapter contains a general enforcement of all the laws given by Moses; by promises of reward in case of obedience on the one hand; and threatening of punishment for disobedience on the other. While Israel maintained a national regard to God’s worship, Sabbath and sanctuary and did not turn aside to idolatry, the Lord engaged to continue to them temporal mercies and religious advantages. These great and precious promises, though they relate chiefly to the Life which now is, were typical of the spiritual blessings made sure by the conveant of grace to all believers through Christ.

1. Plenty and abundance of the fruit of the earth. Every good and perfect gift must be expected from above from the father of lights.

2. Peace under divine protection. Those dwell in safety, that dwell in God.

3. The favour of God, which is the fountain of good.

4. The grace of the conveant. All conveant blessings are summed up in the conveant relation, I will be your God and ye shall be my people and they are all grounded upon their redemption. Having purchased them, God would own them and never cast them off until they cast Him off.

Leviticus 27: This chapter contains zeal for the service disposed by the Israelites on some occasion, to donate themselves or their children to the service of the Lord in his house for life. It is good to be zealously affected and liberally disposed for the Lord’s service but the matter should be well weighed and Prudence should direct as to what we do; else rash vows and hesitation in doing them will dishonor God and trouble our own minds. Let us draw near with a true heart and in full assurance of Faith worshipping God with the more cheerfulness and humble confidence still saying BLESSED BE GOD FOR JESUS CHRIST.

Chapter 24 continues talking about the tabernacle and it provides further details on what is to take place within the holy place.  It starts with instructions on how Aaron is to tend the lamps, keeping it burning night and day and instructions for keeping the table of shewbread.  They are to bake 12 cakes and lay them in two rows of six on the table.  The bread is to be replaced every Sabbath.

The chapter continues with a situation where the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian father blasphemes the name of the Lord when he was fighting with another Israelite man.  He is brought to Moses and the people wait on the Lord for directions on how to deal with the issue.  The Lord directs what to do and provides additional instructions for dealing with other scenarios related to taking the life of or injuring someone and taking the life of an animal.  But ultimately in that section, the Lord is indicating that there is one law by which everybody is to abide.

Chapter 25 is about the Jubilee and the seventh-year Sabbath rest for the land.  Every six years the people are to plant in their fields and tend to their vineyards.  But in the seventh year, they are to leave the land alone to let it get a rest.  In the eighth year they can start planting again.  This meant they had to trust and rely on God to provide for them during the intervening years.

The Lord also implements a Jubilee, where every seven year cycle of seven years, that is after 49 years, a Jubilee is declared in the fiftieth year.  In that year of Jubilee there is restoration, freedom and liberty.  Things that have had to be given up in the 49 years are to be restored to their original owners.

God continues to provide directions and instructions on how to deal with the poor, how to deal with people who are hired servants as well as how to deal with bondservants.  The Lord concludes by indicating that they are His servants, the people that He has brought out of the land of Egypt and He is the Lord their God.

Hebrew name of the Book:

In Hebrew the book is called Vayikra

Who wrote the book:

The book was written by Prophet Moses

Number of Chapters:

There are 27 chapters in Leviticus

Date The Book was written

1467 BC

Highlights of the Book

The book of Leviticus talks about the Laws which the Lord gave the Israelites and I will be highlighting some of those laws which also apply to our Christian life

A peace offering should be from the herd or the flock slaughter it at the Tabernacle. The priest shall burn it on the altar as food.

If anyone sins unintentionally, they should slaughter a bull, a goat or a lamb. The priest shall burn it to the Lord to make atonement.

The meat of peace offering must be eaten within two days.

A male child shall be circumcised on the eighth day. A woman who gives birth shall bring offerings after her days of purification.

Don’t have sex with a relative.

Be holy. Keep my Sabbath. Don’t turn to idols. Love your neighbor as yourself.

A priest must not make himself unclean and must marry a virgin.

Finally God said if you keep my laws I will give peace in the land and make you fruitful. If not I will scatter you but I will not break my covenant.