Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Tomorrow we wrap up two months of reading the Bible together. So far, you've spent an estimated

12 hours reading the Bible and approximately eight hours listening to this podcast.

If you're already two months in with us, I'm assuming you're in this for the long haul.

You're not the person who started in hopes of making it happen, but faded out two weeks

in.

You're still here.

That's huge.

And I'm so grateful God keeps drawing you in to read his word.

Today we opened up our longest and most repetitive chapter yet with some offerings for the

Levites initiated by the heads of other tribes.

They gave the Gershinites and the Maraarites ox carts to use as their tabernacle luggage,

but the Kohathites didn't get any ox carts because they have to carry things on their

shoulders, according to the text.

This is a reference to the polls we've already read and talked about, which went over their

shoulders. By the way, I keep mentioning these polls because I'm setting us up to understand

something that happens in the future. After they give the ox carts and the oxen, they set up a

dedication ceremony, and God established the offerings that would come from each tribe

during that process. Each tribe was assigned one day out of the 12-day ceremony, where the leaders of

each tribe would bring the offerings to the tabernacle. Starting with Judah taking the lead on day one,

they worked their way around the encampment clockwise. Each of the tribes, regardless of size,

gave the Levites the same contribution to show

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