Genesis to Revelation Bible Reading Plan
February 7
Numbers 7-10
Chapter 7
Offerings of the Leaders
1 Now on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed
it and consecrated it with all its furnishings and the altar and all its utensils;
he anointed them and consecrated them also.
2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ households,
made an offering (they were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who
were over the numbered men).
3 When they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve
oxen, a cart for every two of the leaders and an ox for each one, then they presented
them before the tabernacle.
4 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
5 “Accept these things from them, that they may be used in the service
of the tent of meeting, and you shall give them to the Levites, to each man according
to his service.”
6 So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.
7 Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their
service,
8 and four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their
service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
9 But he did not give any to the sons of Kohath because theirs was the service
of the holy objects, which they carried on the shoulder.
10 The leaders offered the dedication offering for the altar when it was
anointed, so the leaders offered their offering before the altar.
11 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Let them present their offering, one leader
each day, for the dedication of the altar.”
12 Now the one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon the son
of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah;
13 and his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and
thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel
of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain
offering;
14 one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
15 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
16 one male goat for a sin offering;
17 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
18 On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented
an offering;
19 he presented as his offering one silver dish whose weight was one hundred
and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel
of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain
offering;
20 one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
21 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
22 one male goat for a sin offering;
23 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male
goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son
of Zuar.
24 On the third day it was Eliab the son of Helon, leader of the sons of Zebulun;
25 his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
26 one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
27 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
28 one male goat for a sin offering;
29 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
30 On the fourth day it was Elizur the son of Shedeur, leader of the sons of
Reuben;
31 his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
32 one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
33 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
34 one male goat for a sin offering;
35 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
36 On the fifth day it was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, leader of the children
of Simeon;
37 his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
38 one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
39 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
40 one male goat for a sin offering;
41 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
42 On the sixth day it was Eliasaph the son of Deuel, leader of the sons of
Gad;
43 his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
44 one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
45 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
46 one male goat for a sin offering;
47 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
48 On the seventh day it was Elishama the son of Ammihud, leader of the sons
of Ephraim;
49 his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
50 one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
51 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
52 one male goat for a sin offering;
53 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
54 On the eighth day it was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, leader of the sons
of Manasseh;
55 his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
56 one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
57 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
58 one male goat for a sin offering;
59 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male
goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son
of Pedahzur.
60 On the ninth day it was Abidan the son of Gideoni, leader of the sons of
Benjamin;
61 his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
62 one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
63 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
64 one male goat for a sin offering;
65 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male
goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son
of Gideoni.
66 On the tenth day it was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, leader of the sons
of Dan;
67 his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
68 one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
69 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
70 one male goat for a sin offering;
71 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
72 On the eleventh day it was Pagiel the son of Ochran, leader of the sons
of Asher;
73 his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
74 one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
75 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
76 one male goat for a sin offering;
77 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.
78 On the twelfth day it was Ahira the son of Enan, leader of the sons of Naphtali;
79 his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty
shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
80 one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
81 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
82 one male goat for a sin offering;
83 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
84 This was the dedication offering for the altar from the leaders of Israel
when it was anointed: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver bowls, twelve gold
pans,
85 each silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty shekels and each bowl seventy;
all the silver of the utensils was 2,400 shekels, according to the shekel of
the sanctuary;
86 the twelve gold pans, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, according
to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the pans 120 shekels;
87 all the oxen for the burnt offering twelve bulls, all the rams twelve, the
male lambs one year old with their grain offering twelve, and the male goats
for a sin offering twelve;
88 and all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace offerings 24 bulls, all the rams
60, the male goats 60, the male lambs one year old 60. This was the dedication
offering for the altar after it was anointed.
89 Now when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Him, he heard
the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of
the testimony, from between the two cherubim, so He spoke to him.
Chapter 8
The Seven Lamps
1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you mount the lamps, the
seven lamps will give light in the front of the lampstand.’ ”
3 Aaron therefore did so; he mounted its lamps at the front of the lampstand,
just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
4 Now this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold; from
its base to its flowers it was hammered work; according to the pattern which
the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
Cleansing the Levites
5 Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
6 “Take the Levites from among the sons of Israel and cleanse them.
7 “Thus you shall do to them, for their cleansing: sprinkle purifying
water on them, and let them use a razor over their whole body and wash
their clothes, and they will be clean.
8 “Then let them take a bull with its grain offering, fine flour mixed
with oil; and a second bull you shall take for a sin offering.
9 “So you shall present the Levites before the tent of meeting. You
shall also assemble the whole congregation of the sons of Israel,
10 and present the Levites before the Lord; and the sons of Israel shall
lay their hands on the Levites.
11 “Aaron then shall present the Levites before the Lord as a wave
offering from the sons of Israel, that they may qualify to perform the service
of the Lord.
12 “Now the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls;
then offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the
Lord, to make atonement for the Levites.
13 “You shall have the Levites stand before Aaron and before his sons so
as to present them as a wave offering to the Lord.
14 “Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel,
and the Levites shall be Mine.
15 “Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting.
But you shall cleanse them and present them as a wave offering;
16 for they are wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have
taken them for Myself instead of every first issue of the womb, the firstborn
of
all the sons of Israel.
17 “For every firstborn among the sons of Israel is Mine, among the men
and among the animals; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.
18 “But I have taken the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons
of Israel.
19 “I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from
among the sons of Israel, to perform the service of the sons of Israel at the
tent of meeting and to make atonement on behalf of the sons of Israel, so that
there will be no plague among the sons of Israel by their coming near to
the sanctuary.”
20 Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the sons of Israel
to the Levites; according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses concerning
the
Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them.
21 The Levites, too, purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes;
and Aaron presented them as a wave offering before the Lord. Aaron also made
atonement for them to cleanse them.
22 Then after that the Levites went in to perform their service in the tent
of meeting before Aaron and before his sons; just as the Lord had commanded
Moses
concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
Retirement
23 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
24 “This is what applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and
upward they shall enter to perform service in the work of the tent of meeting.
25 “But at the age of fifty years they shall retire from service in the
work and not work any more.
26 “They may, however, assist their brothers in the tent of meeting,
to keep an obligation, but they themselves shall do no work. Thus you shall
deal with the Levites concerning their obligations.”
Chapter 9
The Passover
1 Thus the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first
month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt,
saying,
2 “Now, let the sons of Israel observe the Passover at its appointed
time.
3 “On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall observe
it at its appointed time; you shall observe it according to all its statutes
and according to all its ordinances.”
4 So Moses told the sons of Israel to observe the Passover.
5 They observed the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of
the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that
the Lord
had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.
6 But there were some men who were unclean because of the dead person,
so that they could not observe Passover on that day; so they came before
Moses
and Aaron on that day.
7 Those men said to him, “Though we are unclean because of the dead person,
why are we restrained from presenting the offering of the Lord at its appointed
time among the sons of Israel?”
8 Moses therefore said to them, “Wait, and I will listen to what the
Lord will command concerning you.”
9 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
10 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If any one of you or of
your generations becomes unclean because of a dead person, or is on a distant
journey, he may, however, observe the Passover to the Lord.
11 ‘In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall
observe it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
12 ‘They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break a bone of
it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall observe it.
13 ‘But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet neglects
to observe the Passover, that person shall then be cut off from his people,
for he did not present the offering of the Lord at its appointed time. That man
will bear his sin.
14 ‘If an alien sojourns among you and observes the Passover to the
Lord, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance,
so he shall do; you shall have one statute, both for the alien and for the
native of the land.’ ”
The Cloud on the Tabernacle
15 Now on the day that the tabernacle was erected the cloud covered the
tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and in the evening it was like the
appearance
of fire over the tabernacle, until morning.
16 So it was continuously; the cloud would cover it by day, and the appearance
of fire by night.
17 Whenever the cloud was lifted from over the tent, afterward the sons of
Israel would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there
the sons of Israel would camp.
18 At the command of the Lord the sons of Israel would set out, and at the
command of the Lord they would camp; as long as the cloud settled over
the tabernacle, they remained camped.
19 Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the sons
of Israel would keep the Lord’s charge and not set out.
20 If sometimes the cloud remained a few days over the tabernacle, according
to the command of the Lord they remained camped. Then according to the command
of the Lord they set out.
21 If sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning, when the
cloud was lifted in the morning, they would move out; or if it remained in
the daytime
and at night, whenever the cloud was lifted, they would set out.
22 Whether it was two days or a month or a year that the cloud lingered over
the tabernacle, staying above it, the sons of Israel remained camped and did
not set out; but when it was lifted, they did set out.
23 At the command of the Lord they camped, and at the command of the
Lord they set out; they kept the Lord’s charge, according to the command of
the Lord through Moses.
Chapter 10
The Silver Trumpets
1 The Lord spoke further to Moses, saying,
2 “Make yourself two trumpets of silver, of hammered work you shall make
them; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for having
the camps set out.
3 “When both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves
to you at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
4 “Yet if only one is blown, then the leaders, the heads of the divisions
of Israel, shall assemble before you.
5 “But when you blow an alarm, the camps that are pitched on the east
side shall set out.
6 “When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are pitched on
the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be blown for them to set out.
7 “When convening the assembly, however, you shall blow without sounding
an alarm.
8 “The priestly sons of Aaron, moreover, shall blow the trumpets; and
this shall be for you a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
9 “When you go to war in your land against the adversary who attacks
you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered
before the Lord your God, and be saved from your enemies.
10 “Also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed feasts, and
on the first days of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt
offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be
as a reminder of you before your God. I am the Lord your God.”
The Tribes Leave Sinai
11 Now in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month,
the cloud was lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony;
12 and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of
Sinai. Then the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.
13 So they moved out for the first time according to the commandment of
the Lord through Moses.
14 The standard of the camp of the sons of Judah, according to their armies,
set out first, with Nahshon the son of Amminadab, over its army,
15 and Nethanel the son of Zuar, over the tribal army of the sons of Issachar;
16 and Eliab the son of Helon over the tribal army of the sons of Zebulun.
17 Then the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons
of Merari, who were carrying the tabernacle, set out.
18 Next the standard of the camp of Reuben, according to their armies, set
out with Elizur the son of Shedeur, over its army,
19 and Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai over the tribal army of the sons of
Simeon,
20 and Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the tribal army of the sons of Gad.
21 Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy objects; and the tabernacle
was set up before their arrival.
22 Next the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim, according to their
armies, was set out, with Elishama the son of Ammihud over its army,
23 and Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur over the tribal army of the sons of Manasseh;
24 and Abidan the son of Gideoni over the tribal army of the sons of Benjamin.
25 Then the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan, according to their armies,
which formed the rear guard for all the camps, set out, with Ahiezer the
son of Ammishaddai over its army,
26 and Pagiel the son of Ochran over the tribal army of the sons of Asher;
27 and Ahira the son of Enan over the tribal army of the sons of Naphtali.
28 This was the order of march of the sons of Israel by their armies as they
set out.
29 Then Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We
are setting out to the place of which the Lord said, ‘I will give it
to you’; come with us and we will do you good, for the Lord has promised
good concerning Israel.”
30 But he said to him, “I will not come, but rather will go to my own
land and relatives.”
31 Then he said, “Please do not leave us, inasmuch as you know where we
should camp in the wilderness, and you will be as eyes for us.
32 “So it will be, if you go with us, that whatever good the Lord does
for us, we will do for you.”
33 Thus they set out from the mount of the Lord three days’ journey,
with the ark of the covenant of the Lord journeying in front of them for the
three days, to seek out a resting place for them.
34 The cloud of the Lord was over them by day when they set out from the
camp.
35 Then it came about when the ark set out that Moses said,
“
Rise up, O Lord!
And let Your enemies be scattered,
And let those who hate You flee before You.”
36 When it came to rest, he said,
“
Return, O Lord,
To the myriad thousands of Israel.”
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