Laws for Purification.
LAWS FOR PURIFICATION
LAWS FOR PURIFICATION
Category: OLD TESTAMENT
GIVE GOD THE BEST
GIVE GOD THE BEST
Give God the best. Therefore you shall say to them, ‘When you have offered the best from it, then the rest shall be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor, and as the product of the wine vat.
DUTIES OF PRIESTS AND LEVITES
DUTIES OF PRIESTS AND LEVITES
Duties of Priests and Levites.
THE BUDDING OF AARON’S ROD
THE BUDDING OF AARON’S ROD
Now on the next day Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony, and the rod of Aaron of the tribe of Levi had sprouted and put out buds and produced blossoms and yielded [ripe] almonds.
“BETWEEN THE DEAD AND THE LIVING”
“BETWEEN THE DEAD AND THE LIVING”
So Aaron took the burning censer as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague had [already] begun among the people; and he put on the incense and made atonement for the people. He stood between the dead and the living, so that the plague was brought to an end.
DIVINE JUDEGMENT UPON THE REBELS
DIVINE JUDEGMENT UPON THE REBELS
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“Say to the congregation, ‘Get away from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.'”
THE REBELLION OF KORAN
THE REBELLION OF KORAN
Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, descendants of Reuben, took action, and they rose up [in rebellion] before Moses, together with some of the Israelites, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation chosen in the assembly, men of distinction.
EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT FOR SABBATH-BREAKING
EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT FOR SABBATH-BREAKING
Exemplary punishment for sabbath-breaking. Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man shall certainly be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”
So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
LAWS ABOUT SACRIFICES AND UNINTENTIONAL SINS
LAWS ABOUT SACRIFICES AND UNINTENTIONAL SINS
Laws About Sacrifices and unintentional Sins.
GOD PROMISES JUDEMENT
GOD PROMISES JUDEMENT
God Promises Judgment. Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just what you have spoken in My hearing I will most certainly do to you; your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, even all who were numbered of you, your entire number from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me.