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Malcom: Welcome to Immerse: the
Daily Bible reading Experience.
Day 100 and 38
then the Lord told Moses, give
the following instructions
to the people of Israel.
When you finally settle in the land I
am giving you, you will offer special
gifts as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
These gifts may take the form of a
burnt offering, a sacrifice to fulfill
a vow, a voluntary offering, or an
offering at any of your annual festivals.
They may be taken from your herds of
cattle or your flocks of sheep and goats.
When you present these offerings,
you must also give the Lord a grain
offering of two quarts of choice flour
mixed with one quart of olive oil.
For each lamb offered as a burnt
offering or a special sacrifice,
you must also present one quart
of wine as a liquid offering.
If the sacrifice is a ram, give
a grain offering of four quarts
of choice flour mixed with a
third of a gallon of olive oil.
And give a third of a gallon
of wine as a liquid offering.
This will be a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
When you present a young bull as a burnt
offering or as a sacrifice to fulfill a
vow or as a peace offering to the Lord,
you must also give a grain offering of
six quartz of choice flour mixed with
two quartz of olive oil, and give two
quartz of wine as a liquid offering.
This will be a special gift,
a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
Each sacrifice of a bull ram lamb or
young goat should be prepared in this way.
Follow these instructions with
each offering you present.
All of you Native born Israelites
must follow these instructions
when you offer a special gift
as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
And if any foreigners visit you or live
among you and want to present a special
gift as a pleasing aroma to the Lord,
they must follow these same procedures.
Native born Israelites and foreigners
are equal before the Lord and
are subject to the same decrees.
This is a permanent law for you to be
observed from generation to generation.
The same instructions and regulations
will apply both to you and to
the foreigners living among you.
Then the Lord said to Moses,
give the following instructions
to the people of Israel.
When you arrive in the land where I
am taking you and you eat the crops
that grow there, you must set some
aside as a sacred offering to the Lord.
Present a cake from the
first of the flower.
You grind and set it aside
as a sacred offering.
As you do with the first
grain from the threshing floor
throughout the generations to come.
You are to present a sacred
offering to the Lord each year from
the first of your ground flower.
But suppose you unintentionally fail
to carry out all these commands that
the Lord has given you through Moses.
And suppose your descendants in the
future fail to do everything the
Lord has commanded through Moses.
If the mistake was made unintentionally
and the community was unaware of
it, the whole community must present
a young bull for a burnt offering
as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
It must be offered along with
its prescribed grain offering
and liquid offering, and with
one male goat for a sin offering.
With it, the priest will purify the
whole community of Israel, making them
right with the Lord and they will be
forgiven for it was an unintentional
sin and they have corrected it
with their offerings to the Lord.
The special gift and the sin
offering the whole community of
Israel will be forgiven, including
the foreigners living among you.
For all the people were
involved in the sin.
If one individual commits an
unintentional sin, the guilty
person must bring a one-year-old
female goat for a sin offering.
The priest will sacrifice it to purify
the guilty person before the Lord
and that person will be forgiven.
The same instructions apply both
to native born Israelites and to
the foreigners living among you.
But those who brazenly
violate the Lord's will.
Whether native born Israelites or
foreigners have blasphemed the Lord and
they must be cut off from the community.
Since they have treated the Lord's
Word with contempt and deliberately
disobeyed his command, they must
be completely cut off and suffer
the punishment for their guilt.
One day while the people of Israel were
in the wilderness, they discovered a
man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
The people who found him doing this
took him before Moses, Aaron, and
the rest of the community, they
held him in custody because they
did not know what to do with him.
Then the Lord said to Moses,
the man must be put to death.
The whole community must
stone him outside the camp.
So the whole community took the man
outside the camp and stoned him to death,
just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Then the Lord said to Moses, Give the
following instructions to the people of
Israel throughout the generations to come.
You must make tassels for the hems of your
clothing and attach them with a blue cord.
When you see the tassels, you will
remember and obey all the commands
of the Lord instead of following
your own desires into filing
yourselves as you are prone to do.
The tassels will help you.
Remember that You must obey all my
commands and be holy to your God.
I am the Lord your God who
brought you out of the land of
Egypt that I might be your God.
I am the Lord your God.
One day, Cora son of Isar, a descendant of
Koha, son of Levi, conspired with Dathan
and Ab Byram, the sons of Elia, and on
son of Plith from the tribe of Rubin.
They incited a rebellion against
Moses along with 250 other
leaders of the community, all
prominent members of the assembly.
They united against Moses and Aaron
and said, you have gone too far.
The whole community of Israel
has been set apart by the
Lord and he is with all of us.
What right do you have to act
as though you are greater than
the rest of the Lord's people?
When Moses heard what they were saying,
he fell face down on the ground.
Then he said to Cora and his followers,
Tomorrow morning, the Lord will show
us who belongs to him and who is holy.
The Lord will allow only those whom
he selects to enter his own presence.
Cora, you and all your followers
must prepare your incense burners,
light fires in them tomorrow and
burn incense before the Lord.
Then we will see whom the
Lord chooses as his holy one.
You, Levites are the ones
who have gone too far.
Then Moses spoke again to Cora.
Now listen you Levites, does it seem
insignificant to you that the God
of Israel has chosen you from among
all the community of Israel to be
near him so you can serve in the
Lord's tabernacle and stand before
the people to minister to them?
Cora, he has already given this special
ministry to you and your fellow Levites.
Are you now demanding
the priesthood as well?
The Lord is the one you and your
followers are really revolting against.
For who is Aaron that you
were complaining about him.
Then?
Moses Summon Dathan and ab Byrum.
The sons of a lie up, but they
replied, we refuse to come before you.
Isn't it enough that you brought us out of
Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey
to kill us here in this wilderness and
that you now treat us like your subjects?
What's more, you haven't brought us into
another land flowing with milk and honey.
You haven't given us a new
homeland with fields and vineyards.
Are you trying to fool these men?
We will not come.
Then Moses became very angry
and said to the Lord, do not
accept their grain offerings.
I have not taken so much as a
donkey from them, and I have
never hurt a single one of them.
And Moses said to Cora, you and all
your followers must come here tomorrow
and present yourselves before the Lord.
Aaron will also be here.
You and each of your 250 followers
must prepare an incense burner
and put incense on it so you can
all present them before the Lord.
Aaron will also bring his incense
burner, so each of these men
prepared an incense burner, lit
the fire and placed incense on it.
Then they all stood at the entrance of
the tabernacle with Moses and Aaron.
Meanwhile, Cora had stirred up
the entire community against Moses
and Aaron, and they all gathered
at the Tabernacle entrance.
Then the glorious presence of the
Lord appeared to the whole community,
and the Lord said to Moses and Aaron
get away from all these people so
that I may instantly destroy them.
But Moses and Aaron fell
face down on the ground.
Oh God, they pleaded.
You are the God who gives
breath to all creatures.
Must you be angry with all the
people when only one man sins and
the Lord said to Moses, then tell
all the people to get away from the
tense of Cora Dathan and ab byram.
So Moses got up and rushed over to
the tents of Dathan and ab Byrum,
followed by the elders of Israel.
Quick, he told the people.
Get away from the tents of
these wicked men and don't touch
anything that belongs to them.
If you do, you'll be
destroyed for their sins.
So all the people stood back from the
tents of Cora Dathan and Ab Byrum.
Then Dathan and a byrum came out and stood
at the entrances of their tents together
with their wives and children and little
ones, and Moses said, this is how you
will know that the Lord has sent me to
do all these things that I have done.
For, I have not done them on my own.
If these men die a natural death
or if nothing unusual happens,
then the Lord has not sent me.
But if the Lord does something entirely
new and the ground opens its mouth and
swallows them all their belongings,
and they go down alive into the grave,
then you will know that these men
have shown contempt for the Lord.
He had hardly finished speaking
the words when the ground
suddenly split open beneath them.
The Earth opened its mouth and swallowed
the men along with their households and
all their followers who were standing
with them and everything they owned.
So they went down, alive, into the
grave, along with all their belongings.
The earth closed over them, and they all
vanished from among the people of Israel.
All the people around them fled
when they heard their screams.
The earth will swallow us too.
They cried.
Then fire blazed forth from
the Lord and burned up the 250
men who were offering incense.
And the Lord said to Moses, tell
Ezer son of air in the priest
to pull all the incense burners
from the fire for they are holy.
Also, tell him to scatter
the burning coals.
Take the incense burners of these
men who have sinned at the cost of
their lives and hammer the metal into
a thin sheet to overlay the altar.
Since these burners were used in the
Lord's presence, they have become holy.
Let them serve as a warning
to the people of Israel.
So Lea or the priest collected the 250
bronze incense burners that had been
used by the men who died in the fire.
And the bronze was hammered into
a thin sheet to overlay the altar.
This would warn the Israelites that no
unauthorized person, no one who was not
a descendant of Aaron should ever enter
the Lord's presence to burn incense.
If anyone did the same thing
would happen to him, as happened
to Cora and his followers.
So the Lord's instructions
to Moses were carried out.
But the very next morning, the whole
community of Israel began muttering
again against Moses and Aaron saying
You have killed the Lord's people.
As the community gathered to protest
against Moses and Aaron, they turned
toward the tabernacle and saw that
the cloud had covered it, and the
glorious presence of the Lord appeared.
Moses and Aaron came and stood
in front of the tabernacle.
And the Lord said to Moses, get
away from all these people so
that I can instantly destroy them.
But Moses and Aaron fell face down on
the ground and Moses said to Aaron,
quick, take an incense burner and
place burning coals on it from the
altar, lay incense on it, and carry
it out among the people to purify them
and make them right with the Lord.
The Lord's anger is blazing against them.
The plague has already begun.
Aaron did as Moses told him
and ran out among the people.
The plague had already begun to strike
down the people, but Aaron burned
the incense and purified the people.
He stood between the dead and the living
and the plague stopped, but 14,700 people
died in that plague in addition to those
who had died in the affair involving Cora.
Then because the plague had
stopped, Aaron returned to Moses
at the entrance of the tabernacle.
Then the Lord said to Moses, tell
the people of Israel to bring you 12
wooden staffs, one from each leader of
Israel's ancestral tribes and inscribe
each leader's name on his staff.
Inscribe Aaron's name on the staff of the
tribe of Levi, for there must be one staff
for the leader of each ancestral tribe.
Place these staffs in the tabernacle
in front of the ark containing
the tablets of the covenant.
Where I meet with you buds will sprout on
the staff belonging to the man I choose.
Then I will finally put an
end to the people's murmuring
and complaining against you.
So Moses gave the instructions to
the people of Israel and each of
the 12 tribal leaders, including
Aaron, brought Moses a staff.
Moses placed the staffs in
the Lord's presence in the
tabernacle of the Covenant.
When he went into the tabernacle of
the Covenant the next day, he found
that Aaron's staff representing the
tribe of Levi had sprouted, butted,
blossomed, and produced ripe almonds.
When Moses brought all the staffs
out from the Lord's presence,
he showed them to the people.
Each man claimed his own staff.
And the Lord said to Moses Place Aaron in
staff permanently before the Ark of the
Covenant to serve as a warning to rebels.
This should put an end to their complaints
against me and prevent any further deaths.
So Moses did as the Lord commanded him.
Then the people of Israel said
to Moses, look, we are doomed.
We are dead.
We are ruined.
Everyone who even comes close to
the tabernacle of the Lord dies.
Are we all doomed to die?
This concludes today's
Immer reading experience.
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