Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption,

and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Hey everybody, this is Kristen and you're listening to the year in the Bible with Daily

Grace podcast. And today we're finishing up the book of numbers. Yay! And so this is our last

discussion on this book. We're going to be talking about numbers, chapters 34 through 36.

And as we start these chapters, we pick up in 34 with the Lord who gave Moses the boundaries of

the land. The Lord defined the borders of the promised land he had provided for the Israelites.

And he gave the names of men who would divide up the land for the inheritance of the people.

And personally, I just love the details of this. I love that God not only provided the place for

his people, but also that he used his people to accomplish his purposes. God could have given them

the specific dimensions for the tribes without using anyone. He's God. He can do anything.

But as God is providing for his people, he not only gave them all that they needed. He also used

his people to divide up the land fully. I love that. And then in chapter 35, God reiterates his

inheritance for the Levites. They are to be scattered as priests throughout the land without

any official inheritance. And they are to be given six cities of refuge where someone could go

if they killed someone on accident. And so, for example, if someone is out in a field and they

swung their acts and accidentally hit someone and killed them, they could escape to a city of

refuge. So an angry relative wouldn't seek vengeance without her first hearing the full story.

And if a person did, in fact, murder someone in cold blood, they would be tried before the assembly

and judged for their actions. But if it was an accident, the city of refuge would serve as a

protection for accidents like these. And finally, we conclude these chapters and the book of numbers

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