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🗓️ 27 February 2021
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:07.0 | I bet you're happy we're back in some narrative sections. |
0:16.2 | We still have some bits of loss sprinkled about the rest of numbers, but today marks the |
0:20.1 | place where we start to round the corner into some of my favorite spots in the book. |
0:24.4 | God has been dealing with the cleanliness of the people of Israel for the past few days. |
0:28.2 | He started with the external purity, then he moved to the internal purity, then yesterday |
0:32.2 | felt like a bit of a deviation, but it fits into the storyline because internal purity |
0:36.8 | and righteousness will result in expressing it externally. |
0:41.7 | Today in God's conversation with Moses, he gives orders to purify the Levites. |
0:46.7 | He's already addressed the people in general, and here he addressed the Levites specifically. |
0:51.6 | As you would imagine, their position of leadership required them to undergo an even more thorough |
0:56.1 | cleansing process. |
0:58.1 | God reiterates his plan for the Levites in their position as his firstborn among Israel, |
1:02.4 | who is also his firstborn, so I guess they're kind of like the firstborn of the first |
1:06.2 | born, which is maybe like winning the Super Bowl and also being named MVP or something. |
1:11.2 | I don't know. |
1:12.4 | The people put their hands on them, which is usually what was done to an animal before |
1:16.0 | it was sacrificed. |
1:17.7 | The people were symbolically offering the Levites up as something they were giving back |
1:21.6 | to God. |
1:22.8 | The symbol is repeated again, but in a different way when the Levites are given as a wave offering. |
1:28.4 | Whatever item was waived in a wave offering, always belong to God afterward. |
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