1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,080 Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:08,600 in a year. 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:13,960 Today's reading is from Numbers chapters 18, 19 and 20. 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:16,920 Chapter 18 Then the Lord said to Aaron, You and your 5 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:21,860 sons and your father's house with you shall bear the iniquity related to the sanctuary, 6 00:00:21,860 --> 00:00:26,520 and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity associated with your priesthood. 7 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:31,080 Also bring with you your brethren of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they 8 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:35,920 may be joined with you and serve you while you and your sons are with you before the 9 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:37,880 tabernacle of witness. 10 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:41,840 They shall attend to your needs and all the needs of the tabernacle, but they shall not 11 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:47,700 come near the articles of the sanctuary and the altar lest they die, they and you also. 12 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:51,900 They shall be joined with you and attend to the needs of the tabernacle of meeting for 13 00:00:51,900 --> 00:00:54,320 all the work of the tabernacle. 14 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:59,120 But an outsider shall not come near you, and you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary 15 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:04,480 and the duties of the altar, that there may be no more wrath on the children of Israel. 16 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:08,920 Behold I myself have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel. 17 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:14,360 They are a gift to you, given by the Lord to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting. 18 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,160 Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything at 19 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,280 the altar and behind the veil, and you shall serve. 20 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:26,840 I give your priesthood to you as a gift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall 21 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,120 be put to death. 22 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:34,000 And the Lord spoke to Aaron, Here I myself have also given you charge of my heave offerings, 23 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,040 all the holy gifts of the children of Israel I have given them as a portion to you and 24 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:40,840 your sons as an ordinance for ever. 25 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:45,400 This shall be yours of the most holy things reserved from the fire. 26 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,580 Every offering of theirs, every grain offering and every sin offering and every trespass 27 00:01:49,580 --> 00:01:54,560 offering which they render to me shall be most holy for you and your sons. 28 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,240 In a most holy place you shall eat it. 29 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,320 Every male shall eat it, it shall be holy to you. 30 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,840 This also is yours, the heave offering of their gift. 31 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,640 With all the wave offerings of the children of Israel I have given them to you and your 32 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,260 sons and daughters with you as an ordinance for ever. 33 00:02:11,260 --> 00:02:13,940 Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. 34 00:02:13,940 --> 00:02:18,720 All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, their first fruits 35 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:22,160 which they offer to the Lord I have given them to you. 36 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:27,460 Whatever first ripe fruit is in their land which they bring to the Lord shall be yours. 37 00:02:27,460 --> 00:02:30,280 Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. 38 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,320 Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours. 39 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,420 Everything that first opens the womb of all flesh which they bring to the Lord, whether 40 00:02:37,420 --> 00:02:39,520 man or beast, shall be yours. 41 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,300 Nevertheless, the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem and the firstborn of unclean 42 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:46,900 animals you shall surely redeem. 43 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:51,440 And those redeemed of the devoted things you shall redeem when one month old, according 44 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:56,400 to your valuation, for five shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, 45 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,260 which is twenty ageras. 46 00:02:58,260 --> 00:03:01,900 But the firstborn of a cow, the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat you 47 00:03:01,900 --> 00:03:04,340 shall not redeem, they are holy. 48 00:03:04,340 --> 00:03:08,380 You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by 49 00:03:08,380 --> 00:03:11,100 fire for a sweet aroma to the Lord. 50 00:03:11,100 --> 00:03:16,380 And their flesh shall be yours, just as the wave breast and the right thigh are yours. 51 00:03:16,380 --> 00:03:19,900 All the heave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to the 52 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:25,120 Lord I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as an ordinance forever. 53 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:30,340 It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord with you and your descendants with you. 54 00:03:30,340 --> 00:03:34,580 Then the Lord said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, nor shall you 55 00:03:34,580 --> 00:03:36,180 have any portion among them. 56 00:03:36,180 --> 00:03:39,900 I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel. 57 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:44,860 Behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tithe in Israel as an inheritance 58 00:03:44,860 --> 00:03:50,020 in return for the work which they perform, the work of the tabernacle of meeting. 59 00:03:50,020 --> 00:03:54,140 Hereafter the children of Israel shall not come near the tabernacle of meeting lest they 60 00:03:54,140 --> 00:03:56,060 bear sin and die. 61 00:03:56,060 --> 00:03:59,860 But the Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle of meeting, and they shall 62 00:03:59,860 --> 00:04:01,360 bear their iniquity. 63 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:06,180 It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations that among the children of Israel 64 00:04:06,180 --> 00:04:08,180 they shall have no inheritance. 65 00:04:08,180 --> 00:04:12,620 For the tithe of the children of Israel which they offer up as a heave offering to the Lord 66 00:04:12,620 --> 00:04:16,060 I have given to the Levites as an inheritance. 67 00:04:16,060 --> 00:04:20,540 Therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 68 00:04:20,540 --> 00:04:25,180 Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak thus to the Levites, and say to them, When 69 00:04:25,180 --> 00:04:30,500 you take from the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them as your inheritance, 70 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:35,540 then you shall offer up a heave offering of it to the Lord, a tenth of the tithe. 71 00:04:35,540 --> 00:04:39,640 And your heave offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing 72 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,880 floor and as the fullness of the winepress. 73 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:47,380 Thus you shall also offer a heave offering to the Lord from all your tithe which you 74 00:04:47,380 --> 00:04:51,460 receive from the children of Israel, and you shall give the Lord's heave offering from 75 00:04:51,460 --> 00:04:53,500 it to Aaron the priest. 76 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:58,860 Of all your gifts you shall offer up every heave offering due to the Lord, from all the 77 00:04:58,860 --> 00:05:02,380 best of them, the consecrated part of them. 78 00:05:02,380 --> 00:05:06,740 Therefore you shall say to them, When you have lifted up the best of it, then the rest 79 00:05:06,740 --> 00:05:11,220 shall be accounted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce 80 00:05:11,220 --> 00:05:12,540 of the winepress. 81 00:05:12,540 --> 00:05:17,020 You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your 82 00:05:17,020 --> 00:05:19,380 work in the tabernacle of meeting. 83 00:05:19,380 --> 00:05:23,900 And you shall bear no sin because of it, when you have lifted up the best of it. 84 00:05:23,900 --> 00:05:31,020 But you shall not profane the holy gifts of the children of Israel, lest you die. 85 00:05:31,020 --> 00:05:35,140 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, This is the ordinance of the law which the 86 00:05:35,140 --> 00:05:40,500 Lord has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel that they bring you a red heifer 87 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:45,580 without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which a yoke has never come. 88 00:05:45,580 --> 00:05:49,900 You shall give it to Eliezer the priest, that he may take it outside the camp, and it shall 89 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:51,740 be slaughtered before him. 90 00:05:51,740 --> 00:05:56,100 And Eliezer the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some 91 00:05:56,100 --> 00:06:00,780 of its blood seven times directly in front of the tabernacle of meeting. 92 00:06:00,780 --> 00:06:06,580 Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight, its hide, its flesh, its blood, and its offal 93 00:06:06,580 --> 00:06:08,100 shall be burned. 94 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:12,300 And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet, and cast them in the midst of 95 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:14,300 the fire, burning the heifer. 96 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:18,500 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, he shall bathe in water, and afterward he shall 97 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:20,000 come into the camp. 98 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,660 The priest shall be unclean until evening. 99 00:06:22,660 --> 00:06:27,520 And the one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, bathe in water, and shall be unclean 100 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:28,820 until evening. 101 00:06:28,820 --> 00:06:33,060 And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and store them outside 102 00:06:33,060 --> 00:06:35,140 the camp in a clean place. 103 00:06:35,140 --> 00:06:38,740 And they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for the water of 104 00:06:38,740 --> 00:06:40,100 purification. 105 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:42,460 It is for purifying from sin. 106 00:06:42,460 --> 00:06:46,700 And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until 107 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:47,700 evening. 108 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:51,740 It shall be a statute forever to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who dwells 109 00:06:51,740 --> 00:06:52,860 among them. 110 00:06:52,860 --> 00:06:56,460 He who touches the dead body of anyone shall be unclean seven days. 111 00:06:56,460 --> 00:07:01,460 He shall purify himself with the water on the third day, and on the seventh day. 112 00:07:01,460 --> 00:07:03,100 Then he shall be clean. 113 00:07:03,100 --> 00:07:08,060 But if he does not purify himself on the third day, and on the seventh day, he will not be 114 00:07:08,060 --> 00:07:09,060 clean. 115 00:07:09,060 --> 00:07:13,180 Whoever touches the body of anyone who has died and does not purify himself, defiles the 116 00:07:13,180 --> 00:07:15,260 tabernacle of the Lord. 117 00:07:15,260 --> 00:07:17,420 That person shall be cut off from Israel. 118 00:07:17,420 --> 00:07:18,980 He shall be unclean. 119 00:07:18,980 --> 00:07:23,020 Because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, his uncleanness is still 120 00:07:23,020 --> 00:07:24,240 on him. 121 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,900 This is the law when a man dies in a tent. 122 00:07:26,900 --> 00:07:31,660 All who come into the tent, and all who are in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. 123 00:07:31,660 --> 00:07:36,700 And every open vessel which has no cover fastened on it is unclean. 124 00:07:36,700 --> 00:07:42,340 Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword, or who has died, or a 125 00:07:42,340 --> 00:07:46,900 bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. 126 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:50,380 And for an unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for 127 00:07:50,380 --> 00:07:55,740 purification from sin, and running water shall be put on them in a vessel. 128 00:07:55,740 --> 00:08:00,700 A clean person shall take hissup and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on 129 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:06,780 all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, 130 00:08:06,780 --> 00:08:08,580 the dead, or a grave. 131 00:08:08,580 --> 00:08:13,880 The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. 132 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:19,140 And on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes and bathe in water, and at 133 00:08:19,140 --> 00:08:21,260 evening he shall be clean. 134 00:08:21,260 --> 00:08:25,460 But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from 135 00:08:25,460 --> 00:08:29,420 among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. 136 00:08:29,420 --> 00:08:33,420 The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean. 137 00:08:33,420 --> 00:08:35,780 It shall be a perpetual statute for them. 138 00:08:35,780 --> 00:08:39,900 He who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his clothes, and he who touches 139 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:43,260 the water of purification shall be unclean until evening. 140 00:08:43,260 --> 00:08:47,680 Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and the person who touches it 141 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:51,220 shall be unclean until evening. 142 00:08:51,220 --> 00:08:55,340 Chapter 20 Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, 143 00:08:55,340 --> 00:09:00,300 came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kaddish, and 144 00:09:00,300 --> 00:09:03,100 Miriam died there and was buried there. 145 00:09:03,100 --> 00:09:06,940 Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered together against Moses and 146 00:09:06,940 --> 00:09:07,940 Aaron. 147 00:09:07,940 --> 00:09:12,840 And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying, If only we had died when our brethren 148 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:14,380 died before the Lord. 149 00:09:14,380 --> 00:09:18,380 Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our 150 00:09:18,380 --> 00:09:20,580 animals should die there? 151 00:09:20,580 --> 00:09:25,500 And why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? 152 00:09:25,500 --> 00:09:30,540 It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, nor is there any water to 153 00:09:30,540 --> 00:09:31,580 drink. 154 00:09:31,580 --> 00:09:35,220 So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle 155 00:09:35,220 --> 00:09:40,260 of meeting, and they fell on their faces, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them. 156 00:09:40,260 --> 00:09:44,780 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take the rod, you and your brother Aaron, gather 157 00:09:44,780 --> 00:09:50,540 the congregation together, speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water. 158 00:09:50,540 --> 00:09:55,080 Thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation 159 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:56,380 and their animals. 160 00:09:56,380 --> 00:09:59,560 So Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he commanded him. 161 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:04,380 And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, 162 00:10:04,380 --> 00:10:08,700 Here now you rebels, must we bring water for you out of this rock? 163 00:10:08,700 --> 00:10:13,420 Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod, and water came out 164 00:10:13,420 --> 00:10:17,500 abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank. 165 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:21,860 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, Because you did not believe me, to hallow me in the 166 00:10:21,860 --> 00:10:26,140 eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the 167 00:10:26,140 --> 00:10:28,340 land which I have given them. 168 00:10:28,340 --> 00:10:33,060 This was the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the Lord, 169 00:10:33,060 --> 00:10:34,820 and he was hallowed among them. 170 00:10:34,820 --> 00:10:39,940 Now Moses sent messengers from Kaddish to the king of Edom, thus says your brother Israel, 171 00:10:39,940 --> 00:10:44,740 you know all the hardship that has befallen us, how our fathers went down to Egypt, and 172 00:10:44,740 --> 00:10:49,780 we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers. 173 00:10:49,780 --> 00:10:54,480 When we cried out to the Lord, he heard our voice and sent the angel, and brought us up 174 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:55,580 out of Egypt. 175 00:10:55,580 --> 00:11:00,500 Now here we are in Kaddish, a city on the edge of your border, please let us pass through 176 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:01,580 your country. 177 00:11:01,580 --> 00:11:06,260 We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells, we will 178 00:11:06,260 --> 00:11:08,680 go along the king's highway. 179 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:12,900 We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, until we have passed through 180 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:14,260 your territory. 181 00:11:14,260 --> 00:11:18,820 Then Edom said to him, you shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you 182 00:11:18,820 --> 00:11:20,100 with the sword. 183 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:24,980 So the children of Israel said to him, we will go by the highway, and if I or my livestock 184 00:11:24,980 --> 00:11:28,060 drink any of your water, then I will pay for it. 185 00:11:28,060 --> 00:11:30,980 Let me only pass through on foot, nothing more. 186 00:11:30,980 --> 00:11:33,400 Then he said, you shall not pass through. 187 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,260 So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand. 188 00:11:37,260 --> 00:11:42,300 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from 189 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:43,300 him. 190 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:48,060 Now the children of Israel, the whole congregation journeyed from Kaddish and came to Mount Hor, 191 00:11:48,060 --> 00:11:52,940 and the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor by the border of the land of Edom saying, 192 00:11:52,940 --> 00:11:57,060 Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given 193 00:11:57,060 --> 00:12:02,180 to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah. 194 00:12:02,180 --> 00:12:06,940 Take Aaron and Eliezer his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor, and strip Aaron of his 195 00:12:06,940 --> 00:12:11,660 garments and put them on Eliezer his son, for Aaron shall be gathered to his people 196 00:12:11,660 --> 00:12:12,840 and die there. 197 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:17,460 So Moses did just as the Lord commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor in the sight of 198 00:12:17,460 --> 00:12:19,420 all the congregation. 199 00:12:19,420 --> 00:12:24,020 Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eliezer his son, and Aaron died there 200 00:12:24,020 --> 00:12:25,700 on the top of the mountain. 201 00:12:25,700 --> 00:12:28,780 Then Moses and Eliezer came down from the mountain. 202 00:12:28,780 --> 00:12:33,540 Now when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel mourned 203 00:12:33,540 --> 00:12:40,740 for Aaron 30 days. 204 00:12:40,740 --> 00:12:44,380 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you 205 00:12:44,380 --> 00:12:46,660 again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 206 00:12:46,660 --> 00:12:56,580 God bless you and have a great day.