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 A Year in the Bible with Daily

Grace podcast. Today we're talking through numbers four through six, and in these chapters,

we're going to continue to talk about the traveling plans of the people as they set off from

Mount Sinai to the Promised Land. In chapter four, the Lord gave Moses and Aaron instructions

about worship, about the tent of meeting, and how to travel with the poles and the altar and the tent,

and as we read within these chapters, we're given a glimpse into the holiness of God. If the people

were to even look at the holy things, they would die. It was too much for them. God's that holy.

And then in chapter five, we see that God gave rules to the people about cleanness. So if someone

was sick or they had leprosy, which was like this flesh eating disease, they were told to be put

out of the camp because God dwelt there. God dwelt in the camp, but he is completely pure.

And we read about a test for adultery. And then in chapter six, we read about this Nazarite vow,

which was basically a special kind of devotion or promise to God. And so those who took this vow,

who took the Nazarite vow, wouldn't eat certain foods or drink certain drinks, they wouldn't cut

their hair, and they would have stained from human adornments. In order to devote themselves

holy to God, it was a special promise, essentially, to devote themselves more purely to God. And we see

this idea come again in the future in the book of first-semials. So, and even with John the Baptist

in the future, so hold on to this idea of the Nazarite vow or to come back to it a little later on.

So in today's chapters, though, they end with this beautiful blessing. The Lord bless you and keep

you. The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance

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