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Malcom: Welcome to Immerse: the
Daily Bible reading Experience.
Day 100 and 34
the Lord gave these instructions to Moses.
Command the people of Israel to
remove from the camp anyone who
has a skin disease or a discharge,
or who has become ceremonially
unclean by touching a dead person.
This command applies
to men and women alike.
Remove them so they will not defile
the camp in which I live among them.
So the Israelites did as the
Lord had commanded Moses and
removed such people from the camp.
Then the Lord said to Moses,
give the following instructions
to the people of Israel.
If any of the people, men or women,
betray the Lord by doing wrong to
another person, they are guilty.
They must confess their sin and make
full restitution for what they have done.
Adding an additional 20% and returning
it to the person who was wronged.
But if the person who was wronged is
dead and there are no near relatives
to whom restitution can be made,
the payment belongs to the Lord
and must be given to the priest.
Those who are guilty must also bring
a ram as a sacrifice, and they will be
purified and made right with the Lord.
All the sacred offerings that
the Israelites bring to a
priest will belong to him.
Each priest may keep all the
sacred donations that he receives,
and the Lord said to Moses,
give the following instructions
to the people of Israel.
Suppose a man's wife goes astray and
she is unfaithful to her husband and has
sex with another man, but neither her
husband nor anyone else knows about it.
She has defiled herself even
though there was no witness and
she was not caught in the act.
If her husband becomes jealous
and is suspicious of his wife and
needs to know whether or not she
has defiled herself, the husband
must bring his wife to the priest.
He must also bring an offering
of two quarts of barley flour
to be presented on her behalf.
Do not mix it with olive
oil or frankincense.
For it is a jealousy offering, an offering
to prove whether or not she is guilty.
The priest will then present her
to stand trial before the Lord.
He must take some holy water in a
clay jar and pour into it dust he
has taken from the tabernacle floor.
When the priest has presented the
woman before the Lord, he must unbind
her hair and place in her hands
the offering of proof, the jealousy
offering to determine whether her
husband's suspicions are justified.
The priest will stand before her
holding the jar of bitter water that
brings a curse to those who are guilty.
The priest will then put the woman under
oath and say to her, if no other man
has had sex with you and you have not
gone astray and defiled yourself while
under your husband's authority, may
you be immune from the effects of this
bitter water that brings on the curse.
But if you have gone astray by being
unfaithful to your husband and have
defiled yourself by having sex with
another man, At this point, the priest
must put the woman under oath by
saying, may the people know that the
Lord's curse is upon you when he makes
you infertile, causing your womb to
shrivel and your abdomen to swell.
Now may this water that brings the
curse and enter your body and cause
your abdomen to swell and your wound
to shrivel, and the woman will be
required to say yes, let it be so.
And the priest will write these
curses on a piece of leather and
wash them off into the bitter water.
He will make the woman drink the
bitter water that brings on the curse.
When the water enters her body,
it will cause bitter suffering.
If she is guilty, the priest will
take the jealousy offering from
the woman's hand, lift it up before
the Lord and carry it to the altar.
He will take a handful of the flower as
a token portion and burn it on the altar.
He will require the
woman to drink the water.
If she has defiled herself by
being unfaithful to her husband,
the water that brings on the
curse will cause bitter suffering.
Her abdomen will swell and her
womb will shrink, and her name will
become a curse among her people.
But if she has not defiled herself and
is pure, then she will be unharmed and
will still be able to have children.
This is the ritual law for
dealing with suspicion.
If a woman goes astray and defiles
herself while under her husband's
authority, or if a man becomes jealous
and is suspicious that his wife has been
unfaithful, the husband must present
his wife before the Lord, and the priest
will apply this entire ritual law to her.
The husband will be innocent of any
guilt in this matter, but his wife
will be held accountable for her sin.
Then the Lord said to Moses,
give the following instructions
to the people of Israel.
If any of the people, either men
or women, take the special vow
of a Nazarite setting themselves
apart to the Lord in a special way.
They must give up wine and
other alcoholic drinks.
They must not use vinegar made from
wine or from other alcoholic drinks.
They must not drink fresh grape juice
and they must not eat grapes or raisins.
As long as they are bound by
their Nazarite vow, they are not
allowed to eat or drink anything
that comes from a grapevine.
Not even the grape seeds or skins.
They must never cut their hair throughout
the time of their vow, for they are holy
and set apart to the the Lord until the
time of their vow has been fulfilled.
They must let their hair grow
long and they must not go near
a dead body during the entire
period of their vow to the Lord.
Even if the dead person is their own
father, mother, brother, or sister,
they must not defile themselves.
For the hair on their head is the
symbol of their separation to God.
This requirement applies as long
as they are set apart to the Lord.
If someone falls dead beside them, the
hair they have dedicated will be defiled.
They must wait for seven days
and then shave their heads.
Then they will be cleansed
from their defilement.
On the eighth day, they must
bring two turtle doves or two
young pigeons to the priest.
At the entrance of the tabernacle,
the priest will offer one of
the birds for a sin offering and
the other for a burnt offering.
In this way, he will purify them
from the guilt they incurred
through contact with the dead body.
Then they must reaffirm their commitment
and let their hair begin to grow again.
The days of their vow that were completed
before their defilement no longer count.
They must rededicate themselves
to the Lord as a nazarite for
the full term of their vow, and
each must bring a one-year-old
male lamb for a guilt offering.
This is the ritual law for Nazarites.
At the conclusion of their time of
separation as nazarites, they must each
go to the entrance of the tabernacle
and offer their sacrifices to the Lord.
A one-year-old male lamb without
defect for a burnt offering.
A one-year-old female lamb without
defect for a sin, offering a ram
without defect for a peace offering.
A basket of bread made without yeast,
cakes of choice, flour mixed with
olive oil and wafers spread with
olive oil, along with their prescribed
grain offerings and liquid offerings.
The priest will present these
offerings before the Lord.
First, the sin offering and the
burnt offering, then the ram for
a peace offering along with the
basket of bread made without yeast.
The priest must also present
the prescribed grain offering
and liquid offering to the Lord.
Then the nazarites will shave their
heads at the entrance of the tabernacle.
They will take the hair that had been
dedicated and place it on the fire
beneath the peace offering sacrifice.
After the Nazarites head has been
shaved, the priest will take for each
of them the boiled shoulder of the ram,
and he will take from the basket, a
cake and a wafer made without yeast.
He will put them all
into the nazarites hands.
Then the priest will lift them up as
a special offering before the Lord.
These are holy portions for the
priest, along with the breast
of the special offering and the
thigh of the sacred offering that
are lifted up before the Lord.
After this ceremony, the
nazarites may again drink wine.
This is the ritual law of the
Nazarites who vow to bring
these offerings to the Lord.
They may also bring additional offerings
if they can afford it, and they must be
careful to do whatever they vowed when
they set themselves apart as nazarites.
Then the Lord said to Moses, tell
Aaron and his sons to bless the people
of Israel with this special blessing.
May the Lord bless you and protect you.
May the Lord smile on you
and be gracious to you.
May the Lord show you his
favor and give you his peace.
Whenever Aaron and his sons
bless the people of Israel in my
name, I myself will bless them.
This concludes today's
immerse reading experience.
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