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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.

Okay.

We'll go ahead and get started.

When we get started here in just a moment, we're going to be picking up at the beginning

of Numbers Chapter 20.

And so we left off last time at another place where sort of the genre of the text shifted again,

as we've talked about now many times.

Book of Numbers covers about 40 years of the history of Israel in the wilderness.

And so we get all kinds of stuff, right?

All brought together here.

We get narrative episodes.

We get commandments.

We get liturgical instructions.

We get a census at the beginning and another one at the end.

We get all kinds of material in here.

And so, and when it shifts,

it could shift kind of abruptly. Now, as we saw last time, we had episode talking about who

held the priesthood, and then we had commandments for priests, right? So it's not that it's just

totally arbitrary and jumbled and thrown together, right? There is a rhyme and a reason to it as to where these things are inserted and how it's been brought together.

But it is the bringing together of a whole bunch of different material.

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