The Question of Leviticus Chapter Summaries 1 First Numbering 603, 550 Levites exempted 2 Order of tribes camp East jiz Judah, Issachar, Zebulun South rsg Rueben, Simeon, Gad West emb Ephraim, Manasseh, Benjamin North dan Dan, Asher, Naphtali E S W N Marching order: jiz rsg lt emb dan l = Levites t = tabernacle 3 service of the priest Children of Aaron Nadab and Abihu die offering strange fire Eleazar and Ithamar minister as priests Service of Levites Gershonites: coverings and tabernacle Kohathites: furniture and inside curtains Merarites: structure The Levites become firstborn 22,000 Levites 22,275 firstborn Israelites = 275 Christ 5 shekels redemption 4 rules for service 30-50 years of service Kohathites: ark, table, vessels All covered, commanded not to touch Eleazar oversees kohathites and charged with lamp stand oil, incense and anointing oil Gershonites: curtains, coverings Merarites: skeleton structure Son numbered: 8580 Page 1
5 laws of sickness Removal of the unclean: lepers, issues of liquid, defiled by dead Step of trespass restitution Confess Restitution (repayment) Atonement (20% fine) Trial of jealousy Man brings ephah of barley meal, without oil or frankincense Woman drank if guilty belly would swell and thigh would rot if innocent would conceive, blessed with a child 6 Nazarite vows Male of female No strong drink, or any product of the vine No cutting of hair Not to approach a dead body 7 offerings of princes Done the last day the tabernacle was set up Lasted 12 days Brought 6 covered wagons and 12 oxen Gershonites: 2 wagons Merarites: 4 wagons Kohathites: no wagons Dedication offering, same for each tribe Meal offering: 1 silver charger, 1 silver bowl, filled with mixed flour and oil Incense offering: 1 gold spoon Burnt offering: 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 lamb Sin offering: 1 kid goat Peace offering: 2 oxen, 5 rams, 5 male goats, 5 lambs 8 The menorah lit Purchasing of the Levites Purification of the Levites Purchasing of the Levites Page 2
9 Passover anniversary 2 nd Passover Exceptions to Passover Unclean from touching the dead Traveling to far journey Cloud directs Israel s travels Cloud by day, fire by night When Cloud is up, Israel marches When Cloud is down, Israel camps Numbers Final Exam - Study Guide 10 Two silver trumpets (shofar/im) Both blown: whole congregation gathers One blown: princes gather Alarm blown: east moved forward 2 nd alarm blown: south moved Change in marching order Gershonites and merarites between 1 st and 2 nd groups Kohathites between 2 nd and 3 rd the middle with the furniture 11 Israel complains Complains about the commonness / blandness of the manna Lesson: simile for Christian life that some may feel is bland Moses is discouraged: peril of being discouraged Moses complaint: Moses is disdained: he is starting to be discouraged and depressed peril of being challenged by younger men Lesson: respect of older and younger 70 selected to help, assembled at the tabernacle Eldad and Medad do not gather, they began to prophesy, Joshua wants to stop them Moses asks Joshua s motive. Moses said would be good that all prophesy. Israel given a plague for complaining about the manna 12 Miriam and Aaron s rebellion Moses is discredited Miriam punished leprosy Moses petitions God to heal Miriam She is outside the camp for 7 days 13 report of the spies 12 spies sent to Canaan, 1 from each tribe Spy for 40 days, report land of milk and honey Caleb and Joshua wants to go, 10 say no Page 3
14 people murmur and want to return Moses and Aaron give up and fall down, Aaron and Caleb speak up and repent God threatens to destroy Israel and make a new lineage from Moses Moses makes intercession, for 2 reasons Other nations will think God is weak Because God is longsuffering and merciful God punishes Israel instead with a generation lost in the wilderness The 10 spies strickened with a plague Only Joshua and Caleb will enter Canaan 15 loss of land but responsibility to teach Thanks offering Sin offering (unintentional) Sin offering (intentional) Law of the tassel on garments 16 korah s rebellion Planned rebellion Plan rejected Plan restated Plan realized Plan still not respected 17 confirmation of Aaron s priesthood Budding of Aaron s rod The test, the choice, the affect 18 provisions for support of priesthood Official duties Revenue for priests Revenue for the Levites Priests receive a tenth of the tithe 19 purification from death Preparation of purifying water Red heifer: burned in cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, then mixed in water Page 4
20 Moses emotions boil over 11.10-11 Moses discouraged 11.24-30 Moses disdained 12.1-16 Moses discredited 20.1 death in the family (Miriam dies and is left behind) 20.3 departure of friend (people murmur one too many times) 20.7-9 duties to God. God gives into the people 20.10-13 distracted by life situations, Moses loses his temper and is reprimanded Punished by denial of passage Death of Aaron 21 fiery serpents Victory over the Canaanites Issue of the serpents The people murmur against the provisions of God God s punishment The lesson described (like cures like) The lesson depicted (John 3.9-17) The rejection The remedy The reason The defined (II Kings 18.1-5) The lesson applied (Colossians 3.5) The brazen serpent becomes a focal point, for a common purpose Focal point Face their fear, acknowledge their sin Face our sin, before Christ can save us Becomes nehushtan Journey continues Victories of Israel: sihon, og 22 Balaam s oracles Balak s distress Balak s plan Balaam s response Balak s persistence Balaam s 2 nd response - told to tarry, tempting God Balaam s departure Balaam s vision Balaam s response - the king can wait, God cannot 23 Balaam s oracles The 1 st oracle - curse requested - blessing given - treasure offered The 2 nd oracle - curse requested - blessing given - power offered The 3 rd oracle - curse requested - blessing given - death threatened Page 5
24 Balaam s oracles The 4 th oracle - blessing given Balaam resists all 3 types of temptation Numbers Final Exam - Study Guide 25 apostasy of Shittim Seduction Physical (sexual) Mental (manipulation) Spiritual (compromise) Enticed by the women Where did they live? Physical contact Participation - they ate with them (sign of approval) Bowed down to their gods Joined with them (bound or yoked together) Punishment: execution of the leaders Sacrilege The solution He saw, he rose up, he took up, he went after Phinehas had the jealousy of God The shame The slaying External support lessons Isaiah 3.16f Proverbs 6.20f Proverbs 7.f 26 the second numbering 601,730 (first - 603,550) Levites - 23,000 (first - 22,000) 27 laws on inheritance These are amendments to God s given law, not a rewrite Son, daughter, brother, next of kin Death of Moses foretold, Joshua appointed Page 6
28,29 various offerings (10) Daily sacrifices Numbers Final Exam - Study Guide The following are done in addition to daily offerings: Weekly offerings (Sabbath) Monthly offerings (new moon) Passover Feast of unleavened bread - last 7 days Feast of first fruits (Pentecost) - 50 days after Passover Feast of Trumpets (1 st day of 7 th month) Day of Atonement (10 th day of 7 th month) Feast of tabernacles (15 th day of 7 th month) 8 th day is solemn (holy convocation) 30 laws regulating vows Responsibility of headship over the daughters, wife, betrothed Widows and divorced except from headship Silence of the man is consent 31 destruction of the medianites Purification of the Israelites Men and women slain Virgins spared Soldiers cleansed Booty cleansed Distribution of spoils Heave offering: 2/10ths of 1% Levites portion: 2% No soldiers were killed 32 division of the land Deuteronomy 3.12-19 - division east of Jordan They must join the fight They have to participate in the cause to partake of the spoils 33 journey of Israel Egypt to Sinai Sinai to kadesh barnea Wilderness wandering Kadesh to Moab Instructions for Israel to conquer Canaan Page 7
34 Canaan s boundaries South border West border East border Land agents appointed 35 levitical cities 48 total 6 are cities of refuge For those engaged in accidental manslaughter or death Only guaranteed a fair trial, not freedom 2 or more witnesses 36 regulation inheritance of daughters Problem of inter-tribal marriages The problem The remedy The keep the inheritated land within the tribe Page 8
Memory Verses Numbers 1.1 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Numbers 3.10 Numbers 3.38 10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest s office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. Numbers 6.1-2 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD: Numbers 6.3 Numbers 6.4 Numbers 6.5 Numbers 6.6 3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. 4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk. 5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. 6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body. Page 9
Numbers 8.1 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Numbers 8.2 Numbers 8.18 2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick. 18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel. Numbers 8.19 Numbers 9.20 Numbers 9.21 Numbers 12.3 19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary. 20 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed. 21 And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.) Numbers 13.30 30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. Numbers 14.24 24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. Page 10
Numbers 25.1 Numbers 25.2 1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. Numbers 25.10 10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Numbers 25.11 11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. Numbers 25.12 12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: Numbers 25.13 13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. Page 11