Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We will go a little further.

It's a little early to end.

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying,

let the children of Israel, each man according to his division and military standard,

camp according to their father's houses,

around and facing the tabernacle of testimony.

So what we're going to get here in chapter two is sort of how they camped.

When we talk about the camp, right, they camped according to their tribes and then within the tribe,

the clans, and then within the clans, the families, right?

We're grouped together. we're going to see that

they processed into camp sort of like a circle so the levites are in front carrying the ark of the

covenant and everything and they end up in the center so they like wound into the center like this

and then when they pack up to go they kind of do this

they kind of unwind but yeah so you have picture sure a spiral shape sort of as

they come in right and then go out like a circle and we were just told here

their camping they their camp faces being their tents face the tabernacle where God is.

So their tents are all facing in.

Now this says something important.

And on a couple, right, the more obvious thing, right, is, oh, they're all facing the opening, right, of the tent.

The way they're, you know, when you open your doorway lookout, you're facing toward where God is.

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