Today is the 17th day of February. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today greetings once again from the Holy

City of Jerusalem. We spent our day in and around Jerusalem yesterday. Today we will be heading

into the lowlands but ending up back here in Jerusalem tonight. This has been a whirlwind.

This is our second to the last day of the tour. So tomorrow, a big day, long day, but it concludes

our tour and that has kind of flown by as it does. Feels like we've been here for a good six weeks.

And we don't want to miss anything and so I'm drinking from a fire hose and packing it all in but

it is wonderful to be here with you today. We can talk about all that in a little bit.

But we are here around the global campfire all over the world together to take the next step forward.

We began the book of Leviticus yesterday and then we read the first three chapters of Leviticus.

Today, Leviticus 4 and 5.

The Lord told Moses to say to the community of Israel,

offer a sacrifice to ask forgiveness when you sin by accidentally doing something I have told you not to do.

When the high priest sins, he makes everyone else guilty too and so he must sacrifice a young

bull that has nothing wrong with it. The priest will lead the bull to the entrance of the sacred tent,

lay his hand on its head and kill it there. He will take a bowl of the blood inside the tent,

dip a finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times toward the sacred chest behind the

curtain. Then, in my presence, he will smear some of the blood on each of the four corners of the

incense altar before pouring out the rest at the foot of the bronze altar near the entrance to the

tent. The priest will remove the fat from the bull just as he does when he sacrifices a bull to

ask my blessing. This includes the fat on the insides as well as the lower part of the liver and

the two kidneys with their fats. He will then send it all up in smoke. The skin and flesh of the

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