Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

We're in a section right now that probably won't be your favorite, but persevere.

This is setting us up to understand a lot about God and his story.

When we have passages like this, as we will, from time to time, don't try to remember all these details.

There isn't a quiz.

Just try to come away from this with an overall idea of the function and purpose and meaning of it all. Try seeing what ties all these details together and asking yourself what those details revealed to you about God.

First of all, why would he pay this kind of attention to detail? And second of of all why would he include these things

in a book that would long outlive the use of the things he's describing.

Whatever these difficult passages show us about him is still in effect even if the offerings and sacrifices to just

him about him is still in effect, even if the offerings and sacrifices and garments aren't.

Before we unpack today's reading, let's back up a little bit.

Do you remember the 12 sons of Jacob?

Not all of them, I'm not asking you to list them,

but I'm just asking if you remember that there were 12 of them,

the 12 tribes of Israel.

Back in Exodus 2, we learned that Moses and Aaron

were from the tribe of Levi.

You may remember Levi as one of the two brothers who, along with Simeon,

killed all the men of Shechem to avenge their sister Dinah's rape.

And yet here we are, with his descendants being appointed as priests unto the Lord.

Talk about redemption.

The descendants of Levi are called Levites, and guess what?

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