Bible Readings for May 10th Numbers 19 | Psalms 56–57 | Isaiah 8 | James 2 As in Numbers 5:1–4, Yahweh commands again here in Numbers 19 that anyone who has any contact with the dead must remain outside the camp until he or she has been purified. The context of...
Bible Readings for May 9th Numbers 17–18 | Psalm 55 | Isaiah 7 | James 1 In the first ten chapters of Numbers, Yahweh established multiple physical boundaries to protect his holiness. But Israel’s many rebellions—capped off by the rebellion of Korah in Numbers...
Bible Readings for May 8th Numbers 16 | Psalms 52, 53, & 54 | Isaiah 6 | Hebrews 13 In Numbers 4, Yahweh had given privileges to the Kohathites above all Israel—and even above the other clans of the tribe of Levi, Gershon and Merari—but he had also given them...
Bible Readings for May 7th Numbers 15 | Psalm 51 | Isaiah 5 | Hebrews 12 In our meditation for Leviticus 4, we observed that sin offerings (Lev. 4:2, 13, 22, 27) and guilt offerings (Lev. 5:14, 17; 6:4) only atoned for unintentional sins—that is, the kind of sins that...
Bible Readings for May 6th Numbers 14 | Psalm 50 | Isaiah 3–4 | Hebrews 11 If things started to fall apart in Numbers 12, it’s in Numbers 13 and 14 that the situation in Israel completely unravels. Ever since Yahweh promised Abraham he would give Abraham’s offspring...
