Hi, and welcome back
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank
you for joining with me today
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to read the word of God.
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When we were last together
reading in Numbers some of the
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stories of the children
of Israel as they journeyed
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to the promised land, it struck
me how time and again when
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they would disobey the
Lord, Moses and Aaron, or Moses,
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would beg with God
for Him to forgive them.
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And He would forgive them.
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That is what God wants each
of us to have; that same spirit
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of looking out for each other,
for asking God's forgiveness
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on those that we love who harm
us; who would seek to harm us
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and who harm God
through ignorance or otherwise.
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As we were together last
we were reading the charges
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that God was giving to Aaron
and his sons; the duties they
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were to do as priests.
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We're going to pick up now
in Numbers 18, but before we do
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let's pray together.
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Dear Lord, thank you so
much for this time to come apart
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and read Your words that are a
light to our path, but may they
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also be planted in our
hearts so that we become a light
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to the world.
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Like Moses and Aaron, we look
for ways and places where we can
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step in and plead forgiveness
for those that we see who are
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disobeying You; who
are rebelling against You.
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Fill our hearts with the
love and the spirit that we
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read about over and over,
that Moses showed, the meekness
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that he had, and
also Aaron as well.
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Now as we read these words,
teach us what You would have
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us to know.
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We love You so much!
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Thank You for loving us.
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Amen.
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Again, we're reading
in the book of Numbers.
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This is chapter 18, and
we're starting on verse 5.
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This is the King James Version.
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And ye shall keep the charge of
the sanctuary, and the charge of
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the altar: that there be
no wrath any more upon the
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children of Israel.
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And I, behold, I have
taken your brethren the Levites
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from among the children of
Israel: to you they are given
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as a gift for the Lord, to
do the service of the tabernacle
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of the congregation.
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Therefore thou and thy sons with
thee shall keep your priest's
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office for everything of
the altar, and within the veil;
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and ye shall serve: I have given
your priest's office unto you
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as a service of gift: and
the stranger that cometh nigh
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shall be put to death.
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And the Lord spake unto Aaron,
Behold, I also have given thee
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the charge of mine heave
offerings of all the hallowed
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things of the children of
Israel; unto thee have I given
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them by reason of the
anointing, and to thy sons,
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by an ordinance forever.
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This shall be thine of the most
holy things, reserved from the
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fire: every oblation of theirs,
every meat offering of theirs,
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and every sin offering of
theirs, and every trespass
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offering of theirs, which
they shall render unto me,
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shall be most holy
for thee and for thy sons.
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In the most holy place shalt
thou eat it; every male shall
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eat it: it shall
be holy unto thee.
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And this is thine; the
heave offering of their gift,
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with all the wave offerings
of the children of Israel:
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I have given them unto
thee, and to thy sons and to thy
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daughters with thee, by a
statute forever: every one that
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is clean in thy
house shall eat of it.
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All the best of the oil,
and all the best of the wine,
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and of the wheat, the
firstfruits of them which
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they shall offer unto the
Lord, them have I given thee.
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And whatsoever is first ripe in
the land, which they shall bring
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unto the Lord, shall be
thine; every one that is clean
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in thine house shall eat of it.
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Every thing devoted
in Israel shall be thine.
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Every thing that
openeth the matrix in all flesh,
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which they bring unto the Lord,
whether it be of men or beasts,
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shall be thine: nevertheless
the firstborn of man shalt thou
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surely redeem, and the
firstling of unclean beasts
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shalt thou redeem.
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And those that are to be
redeemed from a month old shalt
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thou redeem, according to thine
estimation, for the money of
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five shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary,
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which is twenty gerahs.
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But the firstling of a cow,
or the firstling of a sheep,
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or the firstling of a goat, thou
shalt not redeem; they are holy:
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thou shalt sprinkle their blood
upon the altar, and shalt burn
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their fat for an offering
made by fire, for a sweet savor
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unto the Lord.
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And the flesh of them shall
be thine, as the wave breast
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and as the right
shoulder are thine.
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All the heave
offerings of the holy things,
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which the children of
Israel offer unto the Lord,
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have I given thee, and thy sons
and thy daughters with thee,
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by a statute for ever: it is a
covenant of salt for ever before
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the Lord unto thee
and to thy seed with thee.
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And the Lord spake unto Aaron,
Thou shalt have no inheritance
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in their land, neither shalt
thou have any part among them:
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I am thy part and thine
inheritance among the children
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of Israel.
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And, behold, I have given the
children of Levi all the tenth
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in Israel for an inheritance,
for their service which they
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serve, even the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
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Neither must the children of
Israel henceforth come nigh the
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tabernacle of the congregation,
lest they bear sin, and die.
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But the Levites shall do
the service of the tabernacle
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of the congregation, and
they shall bear their iniquity:
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it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations,
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that among the children of
Israel they have no inheritance.
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But the tithes of the children
of Israel, which they offer as a
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heave offering unto the Lord,
I have given to the Levites
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to inherit: therefore I
have said unto them, Among the
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children of Israel they
shall have no inheritance.
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And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, Thus speak unto the
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Levites, and say unto them,
When ye take of the children of
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Israel the tithes which I have
given you from them for your
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inheritance, then ye shall
offer up an heave offering of it
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for the Lord, even a
tenth part of the tithe.
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And this your heave offering
shall be reckoned unto you,
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as though it were the
corn of the threshingfloor,
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and as the
fullness of the winepress.
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Thus ye also shall offer an
heave offering unto the Lord
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of all your tithes, which
ye receive of the children
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of Israel; and ye shall
give thereof the Lord's heave
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offering to Aaron the priest.
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Out of all your gifts ye
shall offer every heave offering
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of the Lord, of all the
best thereof, even the hallowed
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part thereof out of it.
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Therefore thou shalt say
unto them, When ye have heaved
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the best thereof from it, then
it shall be counted unto the
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Levites as the increase of
the threshingfloor, and as the
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increase of the winepress.
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And ye shall eat it in every
place, ye and your households:
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for it is your reward for
your service in the tabernacle
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of the congregation.
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And ye shall bear no sin
by reason of it, when ye have
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heaved from it the best of
it: neither shall ye pollute the
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holy things of the
children of Israel, lest ye die.
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We're continuing to read in
the book of Numbers, chapter 19,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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And the Lord spake unto
Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
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This is the ordinance of the law
which the Lord hath commanded,
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saying, Speak unto the children
of Israel, that they bring thee
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a red heifer without
spot, wherein is no blemish,
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and upon which never came
yoke: and ye shall give her unto
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Eleazar the priest, that
he may bring her forth without
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the camp, and one shall slay
her before his face: and Eleazar
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the priest shall take of
her blood with his finger,
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and sprinkle of her blood
directly before the tabernacle
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of the congregation seven times:
and one shall burn the heifer in
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his sight; her skin, and
her flesh, and her blood,
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with her dung, shall he burn:
and the priest shall take cedar
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wood, and hyssop, and scarlet,
and cast it into the midst
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of the burning of the heifer.
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Then the priest shall wash his
clothes, and he shall bathe his
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flesh in water, and afterward
he shall come into the camp,
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and the priest shall
be unclean until the even.
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And he that burneth her
shall wash his clothes in water,
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and bathe his flesh in
water, and shall be unclean
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until the even.
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And a man that is clean
shall gather up the ashes of the
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heifer, and lay
them up without the camp
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in a clean place, and it shall
be kept for the congregation
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of the children of Israel
for a water of separation:
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it is a purification for sin.
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And he that gathereth the ashes
of the heifer shall wash his
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clothes, and be unclean until
the even: and it shall be unto
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the children of Israel, and unto
the stranger that sojourneth
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among them, for
a statute for ever.
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He that toucheth the dead
body of any man shall be unclean
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seven days.
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He shall purify himself with
it on the third day, and on the
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seventh day he shall be clean:
but if he purify not himself
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the third day, then the seventh
day he shall not be clean.
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Whosoever toucheth the dead
body of any man that is dead,
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and purifieth not
himself, defileth the tabernacle
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of the Lord; and that soul
shall be cut off from Israel:
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because the water of separation
was not sprinkled upon him,
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he shall be unclean; his
uncleanness is yet upon him.
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This is the law, when
a man dieth in a tent:
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all that come into the tent,
and all that is in the tent,
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shall be unclean seven days.
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And every open vessel, which
hath no covering bound upon it,
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is unclean.
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And whosoever toucheth one that
is slain with a sword in the
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open fields, or a dead body,
or a bone of a man, or a grave,
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shall be unclean seven days.
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And for an unclean person they
shall take of the ashes of the
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burnt heifer of purification for
sin, and running water shall be
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put thereto in a vessel: and a
clean person shall take hyssop,
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and dip it in the water,
and sprinkle it upon the tent,
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and upon all the vessels, and
and upon the persons that there,
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and upon him that touched a
bone, or one slain, or one dead,
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or a grave: and the clean person
shall sprinkle upon the unclean
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on the third day, and on the
seventh day: and on the seventh
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day he shall purify
himself, and wash his clothes,
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and bathe himself in water,
and shall be clean at even.
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But the man that shall be
unclean, and shall not purify
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himself, that soul shall be cut
off from among the congregation,
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because he hath defiled
the sanctuary of the Lord:
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the water of separation hath
not been sprinkled upon him;
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he is unclean.
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And it shall be a perpetual
statute unto them, that he that
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sprinkleth the water of
separation shall wash his
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clothes; and he that
toucheth the water of separation
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shall be unclean until even.
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And whatsoever the
unclean person toucheth shall be
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unclean; and the soul that
toucheth it shall be unclean
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until even.
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Again, we're reading
in the book of Numbers.
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We're starting now with
chapter 20, and this is the
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King James Version.
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Then came the children
of Israel, even the whole
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congregation, into the desert
of Zin in the first month:
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and the people abode in
Kadesh; and Miriam died there,
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and was buried there.
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And there was no water for the
congregation: and they gathered
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themselves together
against Moses and against Aaron.
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And the people chode with Moses,
and spake, saying, Would God
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that we had died when our
brethren died before the Lord!
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And why have ye brought up the
congregation of the Lord into
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this wilderness, that we
and our cattle should die there?
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And wherefore have ye made
us to come up out of Egypt,
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to bring us in unto this evil
place? it is no place of seed,
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or of figs, or of vines, or of
pomegranates; neither is there
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any water to drink.
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And Moses and Aaron went from
the presence of the assembly
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unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation,
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and they fell upon their
faces: and the glory of the Lord
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appeared unto them.
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And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, Take the rod, and gather
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thou the assembly together,
thou and Aaron thy brother,
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and speak ye unto the rock
before their eyes; and it shall
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give forth his water, and thou
shalt bring forth to them water
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out of the rock: so thou
shalt give the congregation
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and their beasts drink.
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And Moses took the
rod from before the Lord,
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as he commanded him.
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And Moses and Aaron gathered
the congregation together before
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the rock, and he said
unto them, Hear now, ye rebels;
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must we fetch you
water out of this rock?
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And Moses lifted up his
hand, and with his rod he smote
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the rock twice: and the
water came out abundantly,
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and the congregation
drank, and their beasts also.
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And the Lord spake unto Moses
and Aaron, Because ye believed
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me not, to sanctify me in the
eyes of the children of Israel,
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therefore ye shall not bring
this congregation into the land
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which I have given them.
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This is the water of Meribah;
because the children of Israel
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strove with the Lord, and
he was sanctified in them.
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And Moses sent messengers from
Kadesh unto the king of Edom,
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Thus saith thy brother Israel,
Thou knowest all the travail
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that hath befallen us: how our
fathers went down into Egypt,
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and we have dwelt in Egypt
a long time; and the Egyptians
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vexed us, and our fathers:
and when we cried unto the Lord,
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he heard our voice, and sent an
angel, and hath brought us forth
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out of Egypt: and,
behold, we are in Kadesh,
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a city in the uttermost
of thy border: let us pass,
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I pray thee, through thy
country: we will not pass
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through the fields,
or through the vineyards,
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neither will we drink
of the water of the wells:
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we will go by the king's high
way, we will not turn to the
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right hand nor to the
left, until we have passed
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thy borders.
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And Edom said unto him,
Thou shalt not pass by me,
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lest I come out
against thee with the sword.
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And the children of Israel
said unto him, We will go by the
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high way: and if I and my
cattle drink of thy water,
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then I will pay for it: I will
only, without doing anything
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else, go through on my feet.
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Thank you for being with me
today to read the word of God.
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Please join me again next time.
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Until then, may God
keep you in His peace.
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Goodbye.
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