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🗓️ 24 February 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.2 | Now that Moses has instructions from God about how to set up their society and they know |
0:17.1 | how to set up the camp properly, the next focus is on the service of the newly built |
0:21.7 | tabernacle in the wilderness. |
0:23.5 | And that's what we looked at today. |
0:25.4 | Aaron and his two living sons, Eliezar and Ithamar were the ones God established as the heads |
0:30.8 | of the tabernacle. |
0:32.3 | And all the other people from their tribe, the Levites, were there to help serve them |
0:36.0 | and help them serve. |
0:38.0 | To bring some order and intention to the situation, God calls for three different censuses. |
0:43.1 | The first census is directly related to something God has been working out for a while |
0:46.9 | now. |
0:47.9 | Typically, the firstborn of each family would be consecrated and set apart for service |
0:51.4 | to the Lord, but here we see God calls the Levites his firstborn among all of Israel. |
0:57.5 | In 312, God says, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every |
1:03.7 | firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. |
1:07.0 | So God is making a kind of trade here, Levites in exchange for firstborns. |
1:12.6 | Each of the male Levites will serve as a representative or a placement for each of the firstborns |
1:17.0 | from all the other tribes. |
1:19.4 | To make sure each firstborn of Israel is represented by a male Levite, they have to be counted |
1:24.4 | too. |
1:25.4 | So Moses does census number two. |
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