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מאוסף יהודית גרעין-כל wiki commons images My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 2/3/2019       Day 34   Numbers 1:1 - 4:49 Reflection: Background Peter Ennes Background on Book of Numbers The first census of the people of Israel is focusing more like a military draft than a counting of the people. 650,000 strong of men who could serve in a military campaign. The only exception is the tribe of Levi who has been designated as the priests for the nation and they are the only ones who can pack and touch the holy items of worship. There is a marching  and camping order and a further census of the Tribe of Levi between 30 - 50 and males who can serve as priests and bearers of certain items and packed in a particular way. Meditation/Contemplate: How are you called to serve? Prayer: Call me into your service and instruct me what you would have...

Read |    Day 245 | Wednesday | September 2 |   1 Chronicles 5: 18-26 1 Chronicles 6: 3b, 49, 4-15 1 Chronicles 7: 1-5, 6-12, 13, 14-19, 20-29, 30-40 1 Chronicles 8: 1-28 Background | Center for Biblical Studies | 1 and 2 Chronicles Like the books of Samuel and Kings, Chronicles was originally one book that was divided into two by those who translated the original Hebrew manuscripts into Greek (the Septuagint). Chronicles is a history of Israel’s monarchy, much like the books of Samuel through Kings. The fact that Chronicles comes right after 2 Kings, however, is unfortunate. For many readers there hardly seems to be any sense in reading the long books of Samuel/Kings and then continuing right along and reading “the same thing” in Chronicles. But Chronicles is not merely a repetition of Samuel/Kings; rather, it tells Israel’s story very differently. The fact that Chronicles comes right after the previous history (of Samuel-Kings) no doubt contributes to its misun...

Next |  Day 66 | Saturday | 7 March 2015 | Numbers 25:1 – 26:65 Date |  1445 or 1279 BC Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 |  Click here Reading | Intermarriage with Baalite women leads to rebellion; plague in judgement; census to see who survived; divide the inheritance fairly of land to the tribes. Source | The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 4th Edition | (c) 2010, Oxford University Press | ISBN 978-0-19-528955-8 |  click here  | pp. 227 - 230 Next |  Day  67 | Sunday | March 8 | Numbers 27:1 – 29:40 Reflection Session | Sundays | 910 am – 940 am ET-USA | Grace Episcopal Church Parish Hall | 341 Washington | Traverse City | Michigan | USA | good talk, prayer, reflection, and coffee +++ Collect of the Day: The Second Sunday in Lent O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast f...

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....