Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast,

where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.

The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.

Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,

discovering how the story of salvation

unfolds and how we fit into that story today.

This is day 59, and so we will be reading two chapters from Numbers.

It's Numbers, Chapter 8 and Chapter 9, as well as Deuteronomy chapter 8, just the one in

Deuteronomy, and we'll be praying through Psalm 93.

As always, I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version 2nd Catholic edition, and I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. You can get that at ascensionpress.com or wherever bibles are sold. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. And if you haven't, one last thing, If you haven't yet subscribed to this podcast app or rated it or whatever, please do that. If you want to give it a good review, that's great. If you want to give it a bad review, that's also great because if that is your opinion, then you don't have to keep it to yourself. As I said, today is day 59. We're reading chapters 8 to 9 of Numbers. Chapter 8 of Deuteronomy,

praying Psalm 93. Numbers, chapter 8. The seven lamps. Now, the Lord said to Moses, say to Aaron,

when you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.

And Aaron did so. He set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand as the Lord commanded Moses,

and this was the workmanship of the lampstand. Hammered work of gold. From its base to its flowers,

it was hammered work, according to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses,

so he made the lampstand.

The Levites' consecration and service, and the Lord said to Moses, take the Levites from among

the sons of Israel and cleanse them. And thus shall you do to them, to cleanse them, sprinkle

the water of expiation upon them, and let them go with

a razor over all their body and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves. Then let them take a

young bull and its cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you shall take another bull

for a sin offering, and you shall present the Levites before the tent of meeting, and assemble

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