Musings on the Tough Life Questions

Day 61,  March 2 Num. 18:8-32 / Deut. 18:1-8      Offerings for priests and Levites / Levites’ tithes Lev. 27:1-29 / Num. 6:1-21 Vows and dedications to the Lord / The Nazarite vow Deut. 12:5-14        One place of worship and offerings Deut. 12:26-28      One place of worship Lev. 27:34  End of commands given on Mt. Sinai Num. 18:8-32 / Deut. 18:1-8      Offerings for priests and Levites / Levites’ tithes Num 18:8-11 Remember when we read about all those offerings before and we observed that the right thigh and sometimes breast were a heave offering, offered to the Lord? All of that was the priest's portion.   Num 18:12-13 In addition, all the firstfruits, of the grain, the best oil and new wine are the priests/ Levites Num 18:14 We haven't talked about the laws of devotion yet, but everything consecrated belongs to the priests/ Levites also. Num 18:15-18 First born of man and beasts also....

Day 60,  March 1 Lev. 23:15-22 / Num. 28:26-31 / Deut. 16:9-12  Feast of Weeks (Shavuot, Pentecost, Harvest) Lev. 23:23-25 / Num. 29:1-6      Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah, New Year’s Day) Lev. 16:29-34 / 23:26-32 / Num. 29:7-11        Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) Lev. 23:33-44 / Num. 29:12-40 / Deut. 16:13-17       Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot, Booths, Ingathering) Deut.  15:19-23     Offering of firstborn animals Ex. 30:11-16  The census offering Lev. 23:15-22 / Num. 28:26-31 / Deut. 16:9-12  Feast of Weeks (Shavuot, Pentecost, Harvest) Lev 23:15-21 From the day of the Sabbath right after the Passover which is the wave sheaf offering, count seven Sabbaths, and on the 50th day after Passover, Pentecost f Feast of Weeks is celebrated.  A grain offering is made: 2 loaves 2/10 ephah of flour made with leaven.  Pentecost has leaven.  Also offer: 7 first year lambs, 1 bull, 2 rams...

Day 59,  February 28 Ex. 23:14-19  Requirements for celebrating three festivals annually Ex. 34:18-26  Regulations regarding celebrations and offerings Num. 28:1-15        Daily, Sabbath, and monthly offerings Lev. 23:4-8 / Num. 28:16-25 / Deut. 16:1-8     Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Pesach) Lev. 23:9-14 / Deut. 26:1-15      Firstfruits and tithes Lev. 27:30-33 / Deut. 14:22-29  Tithes Ex. 23:14-19  Requirements for celebrating three festivals annually God appointed 3 times for the community to meet Him. These were Israel’s, appointed times on the calendar to meet with God. To appear before the Lord, is literally to appear before His face as a community. The first was at Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread (when Barley was harvested), the second was Feast of Harvest (Pentecost, when wheat was harvested), and the third was Feast of Ingathering (The Harvest, Tabernacles, when grapes were h...

Day 58,  February 27 Lev. 11 / (Deut. 14:6-20) Clean and unclean animals Lev. 20:25-26 / Deut. 14:3-5, 21 Clean and unclean animals Deut. 12:15-25      Regulations regarding blood and meat Lev. 7:22-27  Regulations against eating fat and blood Lev. 17:10-16        Regulations against eating blood Lev. 19:23-25        Forbidden fruit Lev. 11 / (Deut. 14:6-20) Clean and unclean animals Lev 11:1-3 All animals who divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and chew the cud who can eat Deut 14:6-8 You can eat Ox, sheep, goat, deer, gazelle, antelope, mountain sheo Lev 11:4-8  Camels, Rock Badgar, the Hare - chew the cud, but no cloven hooves ← can’t eat Swine - Have cloven hooves but does not chew the cud ← can’t eat Lev 11:9/ Deut 14:9-10 All that in the water with fins and scales in the seas and rivers you can eat Lev 11:10-12  Creatures in the water that do not have fins and scales are an abomination....