Read the Bible: Numbers 3

Here is the link to the diagram showing where the tribes of the Children of Israel were to pitch their tents in relation to the tabernacle. It got kind of buried in the description yesterday for our friends listening on Spotify. If you are on The Master’s Table website it appears again at the bottom of this post because today we are talking about the sons of Levi and the positions of those families.

Numbers 3

These are also the generations of Aaron and Moses on the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.

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Read the Bible: Leviticus 11

Food laws – If you have been looking forward to long lists of things that God told Moses and Aaron their people could and could not eat, this is your time to shine. If you want to discuss it further we can discuss but we need to read the text first. Let’s look at it together.

Leviticus 11

The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them:

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Read the Bible: Exodus 12

The Passover is both a single event in the history of Israel and an annual feast in remembrance of that event. Pharaoh is going to let the children of Israel go – they will be made to leave quickly as a matter of fact – but he will change his mind one more time and try to get them back.

Exodus 12

The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying,

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Read the Bible: Exodus 8

Water turning to blood was the first plague we saw in Exodus 7. In this chapter we will see plagues two, three and four. We said the plagues would gradually get worse. Beginning with the plague of flies only the Egyptians are affected, no one in the land of Goshen.

Exodus 8

The Lord spoke to Moses “Go to Pharaoh and say to him ‘This is what the LORD says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

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Read the Bible: Exodus 5

Moses and Aaron appear before Pharaoh and ask him to let them go into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD God. Pharaoh does not let them go but rather increases their work load. The Hebrews are mad at Moses, the Egyptians are mad at Moses, he cries out to God that they are worse off than before; and he has no idea, God is just getting warmed up.

Exodus 5

Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh “This is what the LORD God of Israel says: ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”

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