Genesis 2.15, this language of serve and keep or serve and guard, it's the language that's

being used here in the first seven verses. We find the language of service and the language

of guarding. And so it's yet more evidence that the priests are functioning as new atoms and

a new Garden of Eden. And it's helpful to keep that macro structure in your mind so that you're not just thinking,

like, well, we got this random book and then this random book, followed by this random book,

it's all continuing of the same story.

Welcome to episode 48 of Bible Talk, a podcast brought to you by Nine Marks. Nine Marks exists to help pastors build healthy churches and to help people understand passages like numbers 17 to 19.

For more, you can visit Nine Marks.org. My name is Alex Dukin. With me are my two friends.

Sam Mahadi, Jim Hamilton.

Now, guys, last week we talked about, I believe it was numbers, what was it, 14 to 16, Sam.

That's right.

Yeah, you're our stenographer, you take good notes.

And we talked about primarily Cora's Rebellion, which was basically a heretical splinter

group within the Levites who wanted a promotion, and in doing so, they had

basically tried to overthrow the way God had set up the entire sacrificial system.

Is that correct? Is that a good summary of what Korra's rebellion was basically about?

I think so, yeah. Yeah, they wanted to be priests.

Okay. Yeah.

And so what happened is the Lord struck down Korah and his rebellion, and then the people rejoiced. They were like,

yes, Lord, you did the right thing. Wait, that's not at all what happened. The people complained

against the Lord. They grumbled against him. They told the Lord that he was too harsh, and so

a plague broke out among the people, and it didn't stop until, as we read at the end of

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