The Bible in Time...

Read |  Day 58 | Friday | February 27 | Numbers 2:1 – 3:51 Date | 1445 or 1279 bc Reading | Arrangement of the tribes in relation to the tent of meeting; Census of the Levites; census of first born;  Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 |  Click here   | pp. 214 - 217 Next |  Day 59 | Saturday | February 28 | Numbers 4:1 – 5:31 +++ A Collect for Fridays Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen. Source | Morning Office in English | Mission St Clare | Book of Common Prayer | today - click here  

Read | Day 57 | Thursday | February 26 | Leviticus 27:1 – 34; Numbers 1:1-54 Dates| 1445 or 1279 BC Background on Numbers |  The fourth book of the Bible gets its name from the fact that it contains two census of Israel during its forty-year desert wanderings. It also refers to the placement of the twelve tribes around the tabernacle. For example, whenever the Israelites would pick up camp and move on in their journey, the twelve tribes each had an appointed location on the northern, southern, eastern, or western side of the tabernacle. Another of the “bookkeeping” qualities of Numbers is that it gives a list of the stages on the desert journey as well as each of the lands allotted to the twelve tribes once they arrive in the Plains of Moab on the edge of the Promised Land. Still, “Numbers” is probably a misleading title, and might even discourage people from reading it. The Hebrew name for the book is “in the desert,” which better describes the book’s narrative contents....