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Day 100 and 39
then the Lord said to Aaron, you, your sons, and your relatives from the tribe
of Levi will be held responsible for any offenses related to the sanctuary,
but you and your sons alone will be held responsible for violations
connected with the priesthood.
Bring your relatives of the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, to
assist you and your sons as you perform the sacred duties in front
of the tabernacle of the covenant.
But as the levies go about all their assigned duties at the tabernacle,
they must be careful not to go near any of the sacred objects or the altar
if they do both you and they will die.
The Levites must join you in fulfilling their responsibilities for the care
and maintenance of the tabernacle.
But no unauthorized person may assist you.
You yourselves must perform the sacred duties inside the
sanctuary and at the altar.
If you follow these instructions, the Lord's anger will never again
blaze against the people of Israel.
I, myself have chosen your fellow Levites from among the Israelites
to be your special assistance.
They are a gift to you, dedicated to the Lord for service in the tabernacle,
but you and your sons, the priests must personally handle all the priestly
rituals associated with the altar and with everything behind the inner
curtain, I am giving you the priesthood as your special privilege of service.
Any unauthorized person who comes to near the sanctuary will be put to death.
The Lord gave these further instructions to Aaron.
I, myself have put you in charge of all the holy offerings that are
brought to me by the people of Israel.
I have given all these consecrated offerings to you and your sons.
As your permanent share, you are allotted the portion of the most holy
offerings that is not burned on the fire.
This portion of all the most holy offerings, including the grain
offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings will be most holy and
it belongs to you and your sons.
You must eat it as a most holy offering.
All the males may eat of it, and you must treat it as most holy.
All the sacred offerings and special offerings presented to me
when the Israelites lift them up before the altar also belong to you.
I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters.
As your permanent share, any member of your family who is ceremonially
Clean may eat of these offerings.
I also give you the harvest gifts brought by the people as offerings to
the Lord, the best of the olive oil, new wine and grain, all the first crops of
their land that the people present to.
The Lord belong to you.
Any member of your family who is Ceremonially Clean may eat this food.
Everything in Israel that is specially set apart for the Lord also belongs
to you, the firstborn of every mother.
Whether human or animal that is offered to the Lord will be yours, but you must
always redeem your firstborn sons and the firstborn of ceremonially unclean animals
redeem them when they are one month old.
The redemption price is five pieces of silver as measured
by the weight of the sanctuary.
Sheckle.
Which equals 20 gars.
However, you may not redeem the firstborn of cattle, sheep, or goats.
They are holy and have been set apart for the Lord.
Sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a special
gift, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
The meat of these animals will be yours, just like the breast and right thigh
that are presented by lifting them up as a special offering before the altar.
Yes, I am giving you all these holy offerings that the people
of Israel bring to the Lord.
They are for you and your sons and daughters to be
eaten as your permanent share.
This is an eternal and unbreakable covenant between the Lord and you, and
it also applies to your descendants.
And the Lord said to Aaron, you priests will receive no allotment of land or share
of property among the people of Israel.
I am your share and your allotment.
As for the tribe of Levi, your relatives, I will compensate them for their service
in the tabernacle instead of an allotment of land, I will give them the tithes
from the entire land of Israel From now on, no Israelites except priests
or Levites may approach the tabernacle.
If they come too near, they will be judged guilty and will die.
Only the Levites may serve at the tabernacle and they will be held
responsible for any offenses against it.
This is a permanent law for you to be observed from generation to generation.
The Levites will receive no allotment of land among the Israelites because
I have given them the Israelites tithes, which have been presented
as sacred offerings to the Lord.
This will be the Levite share.
That is why I said they would receive no allotment of land among the Israelites.
The Lord also told Moses, give these instructions to the Levites when you
receive from the people of Israel the tithes I have assigned as your allotment.
Give a 10th of the tithes you receive a tithe of the tithe to
the Lord as a sacred offering.
The Lord will consider this offering to be your harvest offering as though it were
the first grain from your own threshing floor or wine from your own wine press.
You must present one 10th of the tithe received from the Israelites
as a sacred offering to the Lord.
This is the Lord's sacred portion, and you must present it to Aaron the priest.
Be sure to give to the Lord the best portions of the gifts given to you.
Also give these instructions to the Levites.
When you present the best part as your offering, it will be considered
as though it came from your own threshing floor or wine press.
You'll Levis and your families may eat this food anywhere you wish for.
It is your compensation for serving in the tabernacle.
You will not be considered guilty for accepting the Lord's tithes if
you give the best portion to the priests, but be careful not to treat
the holy gifts of the people of Israel as though they were common.
If you do, you will die.
The Lord said to Moses And Aaron, here is another legal
requirement commanded by the Lord.
Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer, a perfect
animal that has no defects and has never been yoked to a plow.
Give it to Lea or the priest and it will be taken outside the camp
and slaughtered in his presence.
Lea Azer will take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times
toward the front of the tabernacle.
As Eliezer watches, the heifer must be burned.
It's hide meat, blood, and dung.
Eliezer.
The priest must then take a stick of cedar, a hiss up branch, and some
scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire where the heifer is burning.
Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water.
Afterward, he may return to the camp, though he will remain
ceremonially unclean until evening.
The man who burns the animal must also wash his clothes and bathe
himself in water, and he too will remain unclean until evening.
Then someone who is ceremonially clean will gather up the ashes of
the heifer and deposit them in a purified place outside the camp.
They will be kept there for the community of Israel to use in the
water for the purification ceremony.
This ceremony is performed for the removal of sin.
The man who gathers up the ashes of the heifer must also wash
his clothes, and he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening.
This is a permanent law for the people of Israel and any
foreigners who live among them.
All those who touch a dead human body will be ceremonially unclean for seven days.
They must purify themselves on the third and seventh days
with the water of purification.
Then they will be purified.
But if they do not do this on the third and seventh days, they will continue to
be unclean even after the seventh day.
All those who touch a dead body and do not purify themselves in the proper way defile
the Lord's tabernacle, and they will be cut off from the community of Israel.
Since the water of purification was not sprinkled on them,
their defilement continues.
This is the ritual law that applies when someone dies inside a tent.
All those who enter that tent and those who were inside when
the death occurred will be ceremonially unclean for seven days.
Any open container in the tent that was not covered with a lid is also defiled.
And if someone in an open field touches the corpse of someone who
was killed with a sword or who died a natural death, or if someone touches
a human bone or a grave, that person will be defiled for seven days.
To remove the defilement, put some of the ashes from the burnt purification offering
in a jar and pour fresh water over them.
Then someone who is ceremonially clean must take a hiss up branch
and dip it into the water.
That person must sprinkle the water on the tent, on all the furnishings in the tent,
and on the people who were in the tent.
Also on the person who touched a human bone or touched someone who was killed
or who died naturally or touched a grave.
On the third and seventh days, the person who is ceremonially clean must sprinkle
the water on those who are defiled.
Then on the seventh day, the people being cleansed must wash their clothes and
bathe themselves, and that evening they will be cleansed of their defilement.
But those who become defiled and do not purify themselves will be cut
off from the community for they have defiled the sanctuary of the Lord.
Since the water of purification has not been sprinkled on
them, they remain defiled.
This is a permanent law for the people.
Those who sprinkle the water of purification must
afterward wash their clothes.
And anyone who then touches the water used for purification will
remain defiled until evening.
Anything and anyone that a defiled person touches will be
ceremonially unclean until evening.
This concludes today's Immer Reading experience.
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