1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,040 Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:07,040 in a year. 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:11,560 Today's reading is from Numbers chapters 15 to 17. 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:12,560 Chapter 15. 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:17,720 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 6 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:21,900 When you have come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you, and you 7 00:00:21,900 --> 00:00:26,880 make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow, 8 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:32,440 or as a freewill offering, or in your appointed feasts, to make a sweet aroma to the Lord 9 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:34,680 from the herd or the flock. 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,680 Then he who presents his offering to the Lord shall bring a grain offering of one tenth 11 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:44,400 of an effa of fine flour mixed with one fourth of a hin of oil, and one fourth of a hin of 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:49,120 wine as a drink offering you shall prepare with the burnt offering or the sacrifice for 13 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:50,120 each lamb. 14 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:54,880 Or for a ram you shall prepare as a grain offering two tenths of an effa of fine flour 15 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:59,880 mixed with one third of a hin of oil, and as a drink offering you shall offer one third 16 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,560 of a hin of wine as a sweet aroma to the Lord. 17 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:08,640 And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, 18 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:14,000 or as a peace offering to the Lord, then shall be offered with the young bull a grain offering 19 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,100 of three tenths of an effa of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil. 20 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:23,040 And you shall bring as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering made by 21 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,480 fire a sweet aroma to the Lord. 22 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:31,760 Thus it shall be done for each young bull, for each ram, or for each lamb or young goat, 23 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,760 according to the number that you prepare, so you shall do with everyone according to 24 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:36,760 their number. 25 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:41,120 All who are native born shall do these things in this manner in presenting an offering made 26 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,800 by fire a sweet aroma to the Lord. 27 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:48,480 And if a stranger dwells with you or whoever is among you throughout your generations and 28 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:53,720 would present an offering made by fire a sweet aroma to the Lord, just as you do, so shall 29 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:54,880 he do. 30 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:59,360 One ordinance shall be for you of the assembly and for the stranger who dwells with you, 31 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,380 an ordinance forever throughout your generations. 32 00:02:02,380 --> 00:02:05,640 As you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord. 33 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:10,200 One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger who dwells with you. 34 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:14,920 Again, the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, 35 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:19,680 When you come into the land to which I bring you, then it will be when you eat the bread 36 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,680 of the land that you shall offer up a heave offering to the Lord. 37 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:28,300 You shall offer up a cake of the first of your ground meal as a heave offering. 38 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:32,400 As a heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up. 39 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,360 Of the first of your ground meal you shall give to the Lord a heave offering throughout 40 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:37,940 your generations. 41 00:02:37,940 --> 00:02:42,320 If you sin unintentionally and do not observe all these commandments which the Lord has 42 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:47,760 spoken to Moses, all that the Lord has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day the 43 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:53,160 Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your generations, then it will be, if it is 44 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:58,100 unintentionally committed without the knowledge of the congregation, that the whole congregation 45 00:02:58,100 --> 00:03:03,400 shall offer one young bull as a burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the Lord, with its grain 46 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:08,400 offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats 47 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,080 as a sin offering. 48 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,400 So the priest shall make atonement for the whole congregation of the children of Israel, 49 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,520 and it shall be forgiven them, for it was unintentional. 50 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:21,640 They shall bring their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering 51 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:24,560 before the Lord, for their unintended sin. 52 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,540 It shall be forgiven the whole congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger 53 00:03:28,540 --> 00:03:32,600 who dwells among you, because all the people did it unintentionally. 54 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,560 And if a person sins unintentionally, then he shall bring a female goat in its first 55 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:42,400 year as a sin offering, so the priest shall make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally, 56 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,640 when he sins unintentionally before the Lord, to make atonement for him, and it shall be 57 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:47,880 forgiven him. 58 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:53,000 You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, for him who is native born among the children 59 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,720 of Israel, and for the stranger who dwells among them. 60 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:02,120 But the person who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native born or a stranger, that 61 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:07,280 one brings reproach on the Lord, and he shall be cut off from among his people. 62 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:11,720 Because he has despised the word of the Lord, and has broken his commandment, that person 63 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:13,640 shall be completely cut off. 64 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,400 His guilt shall be upon him. 65 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,200 Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks 66 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:23,440 on a Sabbath day, and those who found him gathering sticks, brought him to Moses and 67 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,360 Aaron and to all the congregation. 68 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,840 They put him under guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him. 69 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:33,360 Then the Lord said to Moses, the man must surely be put to death. 70 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:37,160 All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp. 71 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,720 So as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him 72 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,360 with stones, and he died. 73 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:48,400 Again the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel, tell them to make 74 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:53,520 tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread 75 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:58,060 in the tassels of the corners, and you shall have the tassel that you may look upon it, 76 00:04:58,060 --> 00:05:02,120 and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them, and that you may not follow the 77 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:07,320 harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined, and that you may remember 78 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,400 and do all my commandments, and be holy for your God. 79 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,160 I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. 80 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,080 I am the Lord your God. 81 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:21,360 Chapter 16 Now Korah the son of Izar, the son of Kohath, 82 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:26,900 the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons 83 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:31,840 of Reuben, took men, and they rose up before Moses with some of the children of Israel, 84 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:37,080 two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, representatives of the congregation, men of 85 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:38,080 renown. 86 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:43,200 They gathered together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, You take too much upon yourselves, 87 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,720 for all the congregation is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. 88 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,480 Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord? 89 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:55,880 So when Moses heard it, he fell on his face, and he spoke to Korah and all his company 90 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:01,200 saying, Tomorrow morning the Lord will show who is he and who is holy, and will cause 91 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,280 him to come near to him. 92 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:06,600 That one whom he chooses, he will cause to come near to him. 93 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:11,240 Do this, take censors, Korah and all your company, put fire in them and put incense 94 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:16,240 in them before the Lord tomorrow, and it shall be that the man whom the Lord chooses is the 95 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:17,240 holy one. 96 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,720 You take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi. 97 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:26,120 Then Moses said to Korah, Hear now you sons of Levi, is it a small thing to you that the 98 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:31,840 God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to 99 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:35,960 do the work of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to serve 100 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:36,960 them? 101 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:41,160 And that he has brought you near to himself, you and all your brethren, the sons of Levi, 102 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:42,160 with you? 103 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,120 And are you seeking the priesthood also? 104 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:49,120 Therefore, you and all your company are gathered together against the Lord, and what is Aaron 105 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:50,960 that you complain against him? 106 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:55,720 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, but they said, We will not 107 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:56,720 come up. 108 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,840 Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and 109 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:05,960 honey to kill us in the wilderness, that you should keep acting like a prince over us? 110 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:10,440 Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us 111 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:12,760 inheritance of fields and vineyards. 112 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,080 Will you put out the eyes of these men? 113 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:16,640 We will not come up. 114 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,120 And Moses was very angry and said to the Lord, Do not respect their offering. 115 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:24,480 I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I hurt one of them. 116 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:29,640 And Moses said to Korah, Tomorrow you and all your company be present before the Lord, 117 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,040 you and they, as well as Aaron. 118 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:36,320 Let each take his censer and put incense in it, and each of you bring his censer before 119 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:41,720 the Lord, two hundred and fifty censers, both you and Aaron, each with his censer. 120 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:46,320 So every man took his censer, put fire in it, laid incense on it, and stood at the door 121 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,840 of the tabernacle of meeting with Moses and Aaron. 122 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:53,480 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 123 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,400 Then the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation. 124 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:01,280 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, Separate yourselves from among this congregation, 125 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,160 that I may consume them in a moment. 126 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:08,960 Then they fell on their faces and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, 127 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,680 shall one man sin and you be angry with all the congregation? 128 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,880 So the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the congregation, saying, Get away from 129 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,920 the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. 130 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:24,480 Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him. 131 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:28,960 And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart now from the tents of these wicked 132 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:29,960 men. 133 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,120 Touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins. 134 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,720 So they got away from around the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. 135 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:40,800 And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, 136 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:43,400 their sons and their little children. 137 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:48,440 And Moses said, By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, 138 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,940 for I have not done them of my own will. 139 00:08:50,940 --> 00:08:55,240 If these men die naturally like all men, or if they are visited by the common faith of 140 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,080 all men, then the Lord has not sent me. 141 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:03,000 But if the Lord creates a new thing and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up 142 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:08,400 with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will understand 143 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,080 that these men have rejected the Lord. 144 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:15,180 Now it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart 145 00:09:15,180 --> 00:09:19,800 under them, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, 146 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,520 and all the men with Korah with all their goods. 147 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:26,240 So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit. 148 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:30,200 The earth closed over them, and they perished from among the assembly. 149 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:35,560 Then all Israel, who were around them, fled at their cry, for they said, Lest the earth 150 00:09:35,560 --> 00:09:37,760 shall swallow us up also. 151 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:41,960 Then fire came out from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering 152 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:42,960 incense. 153 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:47,040 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Tell Eliezer, the son of Aaron the priest, to pick 154 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:52,160 up the censers out of the blaze, for they are holy, and scatter the fire some distance 155 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:53,160 away. 156 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,880 The censers of these men who sinned against their own souls, let them be made into hammered 157 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:02,840 plates as a covering for the altar, because they presented them before the Lord, therefore 158 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,960 they are holy, and they shall be assigned to the children of Israel. 159 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:12,280 So Eliezer the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burnt up had presented, 160 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,600 and they were hammered out as a covering on the altar, to be a memorial to the children 161 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:21,880 of Israel, that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should come near to offer incense 162 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:26,240 before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his companions, just as the 163 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,800 Lord had said to him through Moses. 164 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,600 On the next day, all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses 165 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,700 and Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the Lord. 166 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:39,800 Now it happened when the congregation had gathered against Moses and Aaron, that they 167 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:44,200 turned toward the tabernacle of meeting, and suddenly the cloud covered it, and the glory 168 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:45,760 of the Lord appeared. 169 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:50,640 Then Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of meeting, and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 170 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:55,180 Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment, and they fell 171 00:10:55,180 --> 00:10:56,640 on their faces. 172 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:01,400 So Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire in it from the altar, put incense 173 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:06,160 on it, and take it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them, for wrath has 174 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:07,940 gone out from the Lord. 175 00:11:07,940 --> 00:11:09,720 The plague has begun. 176 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:13,980 Then Aaron took it as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the assembly, and already 177 00:11:13,980 --> 00:11:16,400 the plague had begun among the people. 178 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,560 So he put in the incense, and made atonement for the people, and he stood between the dead 179 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:23,240 and the living, so the plague was stopped. 180 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:29,860 Now these who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the Korah incident. 181 00:11:29,860 --> 00:11:33,520 So Aaron returned to Moses at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, for the plague 182 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:35,400 had stopped. 183 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,980 Chapter 17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak 184 00:11:38,980 --> 00:11:43,640 to the children of Israel, and get from them a rod from each father's house, all their 185 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:47,760 leaders according to their father's houses, twelve rods. 186 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:52,800 Write each man's name on his rod, and you shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi, 187 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,620 for there shall be one rod for the head of each father's house. 188 00:11:56,620 --> 00:12:00,520 And you shall place them in the tabernacle of meeting before the testimony where I meet 189 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:01,520 with you. 190 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:05,440 And it shall be that the rod of the man whom I choose will blossom. 191 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,720 Thus I will rid myself of the complaints of the children of Israel which they make against 192 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:10,720 you. 193 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:15,480 So Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and each of their leaders gave him a rod apiece, 194 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:19,120 for each leader according to their father's houses, twelve rods. 195 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,720 And the rod of Aaron was among their rods. 196 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,740 And Moses placed the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness. 197 00:12:25,740 --> 00:12:30,760 Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses went into the tabernacle of witness, and behold 198 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:35,840 the rod of Aaron of the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds, had produced 199 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,760 blossoms and yielded ripe almonds. 200 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:43,200 Then Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord to all the children of Israel, and 201 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,600 they looked, and each man took his rod. 202 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:50,000 And the Lord said to Moses, Bring Aaron's rod back before the testimony, to be kept 203 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:55,040 as a sign against the rebels, that you may put their complaints away from me, lest they 204 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:56,040 die. 205 00:12:56,040 --> 00:13:00,400 Thus did Moses, just as the Lord had commanded him, so he did. 206 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:06,320 So the children of Israel spoke to Moses saying, Surely we die, we perish, we all perish. 207 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:10,120 Whoever even comes near the tabernacle of the Lord must die. 208 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:16,680 Shall we all utterly die? 209 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:20,280 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you 210 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:22,360 again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 211 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:30,520 God bless you and have a great day.