Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Year in the

Bible. I'm Alexa, and I'm here with my co-host, Beth. Hi, friends. Today, we're going to be taking a

closer look at the passage that we annotated yesterday, Levitica 16, 20 through 22. Yes. So, to start

that discussion, Beth, could you tell us where this passage fits in the biblical story? Yeah,

so last week we talked about the Israelites finally completing the building of the tabernacle

and how God's glory, his presence, came to dwell there and be with his people. So this was

essential to the covenant that God had made with Israel, particularly in Exodus 19. So he tells them

that he would be their God and that they would be his people, which meant

that he would dwell with them, protect them, and bless them, and that they would worship him

alone and keep his commandments. But we've already noted a lot in the last few weeks how human

beings are sinful. So even God's people fail to uphold their end of

the covenant. They're going to sin. They're going to worship idols. They're going to disobey God's

commandments. And so one of the things that Leviticus teaches us most is how sin is a problem.

And so what this is doing and putting it in the biblical story is showing us how God

deals with the problem of sin even in his own people. And so the way that Leviticus primarily talks

about sin is kind of like a pollution or a disease. It's something that makes the people's hearts

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