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Numbers 1:47-54

Numbers 1:47-54

The Levites are excluded from Israel's military census because they must attend, carry, erect, and guard the tabernacle. Their camp around the sanctua...

Numbers 1:47-54

Levites Not Numbered

The Levites are excluded from Israel's military census because God sets them apart to carry, assemble, guard, and attend the tabernacle. Their special...

Numbers 2:1-2

Camps Positioned

God tells the twelve tribes of Israel to camp with their own tribal standards and emblems at a distance around the tabernacle. The ordered camps ident...

Numbers 2:3-9

East Side Camps

Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun camp together east of the tabernacle under Judah's standard. Their large force marches first, displaying God's faithfulne...

Numbers 1:17-46

Numbers 1:17-46

Moses, Aaron, and the twelve tribal leaders register Israel's men age twenty and older who can go to war, totaling 603,550. The census displays a nume...

Numbers 1:1-16

Numbers 1:1-16

At Sinai, the Lord commands Moses to take a census of Israel's men age twenty and older who can go to war, organized by tribe and family under appoint...

Numbers 1:17-46

Army Numbered by Tribe

Moses and Aaron number the men of military age tribe by tribe, recording 603,550 men able to go to war. The vast total shows that God has multiplied A...

Numbers 1:1-16

The first Census

Thirteen months after the exodus, with the tabernacle and priesthood established, God commands Moses and Aaron to take a military census of Israel's m...

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2023 Devotions Recap

Leviticus 27

Leviticus 27

The Lord regulates how Israel may dedicate people, animals, houses, fields, and tithes to him, including how some dedicated things may be redeemed. As...

Leviticus 26:40-46

Leviticus 26:40-46

Leviticus 26:14-39

Leviticus 26:14-39

The covenant King warns Israel that despising his statutes and breaking his covenant will bring escalating curses: terror, famine, defeat, desolation,...

Leviticus 26:14-39

Curses of the Covenant

God warns Israel that persistent covenant-breaking will reverse his blessings into escalating curses: disease, defeat, famine, wild beasts, siege, exi...

Leviticus 26:40-46

Promises for Repentance

God promises that when his chastened people humble themselves and accept their guilt, he will remember his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Ev...

Leviticus 26:1-13

Leviticus 26:1-13

The covenant Lord commands Israel to reject idols, keep his Sabbaths, reverence his sanctuary, and walk in his statutes. He promises obedient Israel r...

Leviticus 25:39-55

Leviticus 25:39-55

God's law distinguishes an impoverished Israelite servant from a permanent slave: because Israel belongs to the Lord who redeemed them from Egypt, fel...

Leviticus 25:35-38

Leviticus 25:35-38

Israel must sustain a brother who falls into poverty as it would a stranger or sojourner, taking neither interest on money nor profit on food, because...

Leviticus 25:23-34

Leviticus 25:23-34

Because Israel's land ultimately belonged to God, inherited fields could not be sold permanently. A relative could redeem lost property, and otherwise...

Leviticus 25:18-22

Leviticus 25:18-22

Israel's sabbatical-year obedience required concrete faith: they were not to cultivate their fields in the seventh year, so God promised a sixth-year ...

Leviticus 25:8–17

Leviticus 25:8–17

After seven cycles of sabbatical years, Israel was to sound the Jubilee trumpet, consecrate the fiftieth year, proclaim liberty, return people to thei...

Leviticus 25:1-7

Leviticus 25:1-7

Leviticus 24:10-23

Leviticus 24:10-23

After an Israelite woman's son blasphemes the Lord's name during a fight, Israel waits for God's judgment. The Lord requires justice, equal law for na...

Leviticus 24:5-9

Leviticus 24:5-9

Leviticus 24:1-4

Leviticus 24:1-4

Israel was to supply pure pressed olive oil so Aaron could keep the lampstand burning continually before Yahweh outside the veil. The earthly light wa...