Today is the 19th day of February. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today, gathered around the Global Campfire, wherever we may be.

I am coming to you once again from the city of Jerusalem. We will be departing for Tel Aviv and boarding a giant airplane and flying across oceans.

Back to our home in the United States. Today we concluded our tour of the land of the Bible for 2023.

Last evening, I want a beautiful, beautiful time that was a beautiful day. What a hard day, but what a beautiful day.

We will talk about that in a bit, but we are here to take the next step forward in the Scriptures.

And the next step forward will lead us back into the book of Leviticus.

We've got a brand new week, so we will read from the new living translation this week. And today, Leviticus chapter 7 verse 28 through 9 verse 6.

Then the Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you present a peace offering to the Lord, bring part of it as a gift to the Lord.

Present it to the Lord with your own hands as a special gift to the Lord. Bring the fat of the animal together with the breast and lift up the breast as a special offering to the Lord. And the priest will burn the fat on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his descendants.

Give the right thigh of your peace offering to the priest as a gift. The right thigh must always be given to the priest who offers the blood and the fat of the peace offering.

For I have reserved the breast of the special offering and the right thigh of the sacred offering for the priests.

It is the permanent right of Aaron and his descendants to share in the peace offering brought by the people of Israel. This is the rightful share.

The special gifts presented to the Lord have been reserved for Aaron and his descendants from the time they were set apart to serve the Lord as priests.

On the day they were appointed, the Lord commanded the Israelites to give these portions to the priests as their permanent share from generation to generation.

These are the instructions for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, as well as the ordination offering and the peace offering.

The Lord gave these instructions to Moses on Mount Sinai when he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.

Then the Lord said to Moses,

bring Aaron and his sons along with their sacred garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering, the two rams and the basket of bread made without yeast and call the entire community of Israel together at the entrance of the tabernacle.

So Moses followed the Lord's instructions and the whole community assembled at the tabernacle entrance.

Moses announced to them,

this is what the Lord has commanded us to do, then he presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water. He put the official tunic on Aaron and tied the sash around his waist. He dressed him in the robe, placed the ephod on him and attached the ephod securely with its decorative sash.

Then Moses placed the chest piece on Aaron and put the oerum and the thumem inside it. He placed the turban on Aaron's head and attached the gold medallion, a badge of holiness to the front of the turban just as the Lord had commanded him.

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