Today is the 17th day of February.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian and it's great to be here with you today as we come around the global campfire again and bring another one of our weeks in for a landing.

We have kind of transitioned this week

we're in the book of Leviticus in the Old Testament

graduating out of Exodus

and we're in the Gospel of Mark graduating out of Exodus and we're in the Gospel of Mark, graduating out of the Gospel of

Matthew and so we will continue that journey forward today, Leviticus

chapters four and five.

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 a 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 fat. He will then send it all up in smoke. The skin and the flesh of the

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