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

Tomorrow we wrap up two months of reading the Bible together. So far you've

spent an estimated 12 hours reading the Bible and approximately 8 hours listening

to this podcast. If you're already two months in with us, I'm

assuming you're in this for the long haul. You're not the person who's started in

hopes of making it happen but faded out two weeks in. You're still here. That's

huge and I'm so grateful God keeps drawing you in to read his word.

Today we opened up our longest and most repetitive chapter yet with some offerings for the Levites initiated by the heads of other tribes.

They gave the Gershenites and the Mararites ox carts to use as their tabernacle luggage,

but the coathites didn't get any ox carts because they have to carry things on their

shoulders according to the text.

This is a reference to the polls we've already read and talked about which went over their shoulders.

By the way, I keep mentioning these polls because I'm setting us up to understand something that happens in the future.

After they give the Yoxcarts and the Oxen, they set up a dedication ceremony and God

established the offerings that would come from each tribe during that process.

Each tribe was assigned one day

out of the 12-day ceremony where the leaders of each tribe would bring the offerings to the

tabernacle. Starting with Judah taking the lead on day one, they worked their way around the encampment clockwise.

Each of the tribes, regardless of size, gave the Levites the same contribution to show that

they each fully supported them.

The Levites couldn't do this on their own. They needed help from the people.

At the end of this 12-day dedication period, Moses went into the tabernacle to hear the Lord speaking to

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