Numbers 28-31
Skip Heitzig
| Numbers 28 (NKJV™) | |
| 1 | Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
| 2 | "Command the children of Israel, and say to them, 'My offering, My food for My offerings made by fire as a sweet aroma to Me, you shall be careful to offer to Me at their appointed time.' |
| 3 | "And you shall say to them, 'This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: two male lambs in their first year without blemish, day by day, as a regular burnt offering. |
| 4 | 'The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, the other lamb you shall offer in the evening, |
| 5 | 'and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil. |
| 6 | 'It is a regular burnt offering which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD. |
| 7 | 'And its drink offering shall be one-fourth of a hin for each lamb; in a holy place you shall pour out the drink to the LORD as an offering. |
| 8 | 'The other lamb you shall offer in the evening; as the morning grain offering and its drink offering, you shall offer it as an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD. |
| 9 | 'And on the Sabbath day two lambs in their first year, without blemish, and two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, with its drink offering-- |
| 10 | 'this is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, besides the regular burnt offering with its drink offering. |
| 11 | 'At the beginnings of your months you shall present a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, without blemish; |
| 12 | 'three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram; |
| 13 | 'and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with oil, as a grain offering for each lamb, as a burnt offering of sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD. |
| 14 | 'Their drink offering shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, one-third of a hin for a ram, and one-fourth of a hin for a lamb; this is the burnt offering for each month throughout the months of the year. |
| 15 | 'Also one kid of the goats as a sin offering to the LORD shall be offered, besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. |
| 16 | 'On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the LORD. |
| 17 | 'And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days. |
| 18 | 'On the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. |
| 19 | 'And you shall present an offering made by fire as a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. Be sure they are without blemish. |
| 20 | 'Their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah you shall offer for a bull, and two-tenths for a ram; |
| 21 | 'you shall offer one-tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs; |
| 22 | 'also one goat as a sin offering, to make atonement for you. |
| 23 | 'You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a regular burnt offering. |
| 24 | 'In this manner you shall offer the food of the offering made by fire daily for seven days, as a sweet aroma to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. |
| 25 | 'And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. |
| 26 | 'Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. |
| 27 | 'You shall present a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, |
| 28 | 'with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each bull, two-tenths for the one ram, |
| 29 | 'and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs; |
| 30 | 'also one kid of the goats, to make atonement for you. |
| 31 | 'Be sure they are without blemish. You shall present them with their drink offerings, besides the regular burnt offering with its grain offering. |
| Numbers 29 (NKJV™) | |
| 1 | 'And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. For you it is a day of blowing the trumpets. |
| 2 | 'You shall offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, without blemish. |
| 3 | 'Their grain offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram, |
| 4 | 'and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs; |
| 5 | 'also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, to make atonement for you; |
| 6 | 'besides the burnt offering with its grain offering for the New Moon, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, as a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD. |
| 7 | 'On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls; you shall not do any work. |
| 8 | 'You shall present a burnt offering to the LORD as a sweet aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. Be sure they are without blemish. |
| 9 | 'Their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram, |
| 10 | 'and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs; |
| 11 | 'also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, besides the sin offering for atonement, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings. |
| 12 | 'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days. |
| 13 | 'You shall present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a sweet aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year. They shall be without blemish. |
| 14 | 'Their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams, |
| 15 | 'and one-tenth for each of the fourteen lambs; |
| 16 | 'also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. |
| 17 | 'On the second day present twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish, |
| 18 | 'and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; |
| 19 | 'also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings. |
| 20 | 'On the third day present eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish, |
| 21 | 'and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; |
| 22 | 'also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. |
| 23 | 'On the fourth day present ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year, without blemish, |
| 24 | 'and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; |
| 25 | 'also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. |
| 26 | 'On the fifth day present nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish, |
| 27 | 'and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; |
| 28 | 'also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. |
| 29 | 'On the sixth day present eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish, |
| 30 | 'and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; |
| 31 | 'also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. |
| 32 | 'On the seventh day present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish, |
| 33 | 'and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; |
| 34 | 'also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. |
| 35 | 'On the eighth day you shall have a sacred assembly. You shall do no customary work. |
| 36 | 'You shall present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a sweet aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven lambs in their first year without blemish, |
| 37 | 'and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; |
| 38 | 'also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. |
| 39 | 'These you shall present to the LORD at your appointed feasts (besides your vowed offerings and your freewill offerings) as your burnt offerings and your grain offerings, as your drink offerings and your peace offerings.'" |
| 40 | So Moses told the children of Israel everything, just as the LORD commanded Moses. |
| Numbers 30 (NKJV™) | |
| 1 | Then Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: |
| 2 | "If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. |
| 3 | "Or if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by some agreement while in her father's house in her youth, |
| 4 | "and her father hears her vow and the agreement by which she has bound herself, and her father holds his peace, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement with which she has bound herself shall stand. |
| 5 | "But if her father overrules her on the day that he hears, then none of her vows nor her agreements by which she has bound herself shall stand; and the LORD will release her, because her father overruled her. |
| 6 | "If indeed she takes a husband, while bound by her vows or by a rash utterance from her lips by which she bound herself, |
| 7 | "and her husband hears it, and makes no response to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her agreements by which she bound herself shall stand. |
| 8 | "But if her husband overrules her on the day that he hears it, he shall make void her vow which she took and what she uttered with her lips, by which she bound herself, and the LORD will release her. |
| 9 | "Also any vow of a widow or a divorced woman, by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her. |
| 10 | "If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound herself by an agreement with an oath, |
| 11 | "and her husband heard it, and made no response to her and did not overrule her, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement by which she bound herself shall stand. |
| 12 | "But if her husband truly made them void on the day he heard them, then whatever proceeded from her lips concerning her vows or concerning the agreement binding her, it shall not stand; her husband has made them void, and the LORD will release her. |
| 13 | "Every vow and every binding oath to afflict her soul, her husband may confirm it, or her husband may make it void. |
| 14 | "Now if her husband makes no response whatever to her from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all the agreements that bind her; he confirms them, because he made no response to her on the day that he heard them. |
| 15 | "But if he does make them void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt." |
| 16 | These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter in her youth in her father's house. |
| Numbers 31 (NKJV™) | |
| 1 | And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: |
| 2 | "Take vengeance on the Midianites for the children of Israel. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people." |
| 3 | So Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm some of yourselves for war, and let them go against the Midianites to take vengeance for the LORD on Midian. |
| 4 | "A thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war." |
| 5 | So there were recruited from the divisions of Israel one thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. |
| 6 | Then Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from each tribe; he sent them to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the holy articles and the signal trumpets in his hand. |
| 7 | And they warred against the Midianites, just as the LORD commanded Moses, and they killed all the males. |
| 8 | They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who were killed--Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword. |
| 9 | And the children of Israel took the women of Midian captive, with their little ones, and took as spoil all their cattle, all their flocks, and all their goods. |
| 10 | They also burned with fire all the cities where they dwelt, and all their forts. |
| 11 | And they took all the spoil and all the booty--of man and beast. |
| 12 | Then they brought the captives, the booty, and the spoil to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho. |
| 13 | And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went to meet them outside the camp. |
| 14 | But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, with the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who had come from the battle. |
| 15 | And Moses said to them: "Have you kept all the women alive? |
| 16 | "Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. |
| 17 | "Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately. |
| 18 | "But keep alive for yourselves all the young girls who have not known a man intimately. |
| 19 | "And as for you, remain outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day. |
| 20 | "Purify every garment, everything made of leather, everything woven of goats' hair, and everything made of wood." |
| 21 | Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to the battle, "This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses: |
| 22 | "Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, |
| 23 | "everything that can endure fire, you shall put through the fire, and it shall be clean; and it shall be purified with the water of purification. But all that cannot endure fire you shall put through water. |
| 24 | "And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may come into the camp." |
| 25 | Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: |
| 26 | "Count up the plunder that was taken--of man and beast--you and Eleazar the priest and the chief fathers of the congregation; |
| 27 | "and divide the plunder into two parts, between those who took part in the war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation. |
| 28 | "And levy a tribute for the LORD on the men of war who went out to battle: one of every five hundred of the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep; |
| 29 | "take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as a heave offering to the LORD. |
| 30 | "And from the children of Israel's half you shall take one of every fifty, drawn from the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep, from all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD." |
| 31 | So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. |
| 32 | The booty remaining from the plunder, which the men of war had taken, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, |
| 33 | seventy-two thousand cattle, |
| 34 | sixty-one thousand donkeys, |
| 35 | and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of women who had not known a man intimately. |
| 36 | And the half, the portion for those who had gone out to war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep; |
| 37 | and the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five. |
| 38 | The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was seventy-two. |
| 39 | The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the LORD'S tribute was sixty-one. |
| 40 | The persons were sixteen thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was thirty-two persons. |
| 41 | So Moses gave the tribute which was the LORD'S heave offering to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses. |
| 42 | And from the children of Israel's half, which Moses separated from the men who fought-- |
| 43 | now the half belonging to the congregation was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, |
| 44 | thirty-six thousand cattle, |
| 45 | thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, |
| 46 | and sixteen thousand persons-- |
| 47 | and from the children of Israel's half Moses took one of every fifty, drawn from man and beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. |
| 48 | Then the officers who were over thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came near to Moses; |
| 49 | and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken a count of the men of war who are under our command, and not a man of us is missing. |
| 50 | "Therefore we have brought an offering for the LORD, what every man found of ornaments of gold: armlets and bracelets and signet rings and earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD." |
| 51 | So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from them, all the fashioned ornaments. |
| 52 | And all the gold of the offering that they offered to the LORD, from the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. |
| 53 | (The men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.) |
| 54 | And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of meeting as a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD. |
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Numbers is a book of wanderings, as the Jewish people travel through the wilderness in unbelief. Skip Heitzig shows us how we can learn from the mistakes of the children of Israel.
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