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 1st Numbers 8 | Psalm 44 | Song of Songs 6 | Hebrews 6 In Numbers 8, Yahweh prepares the Levites for their service by cleansing them. The first thing we see in Numbers 8 is that the Levites were actually cleansed during this process with...
Bible Readings for April 3rd Leviticus 6 | Psalms 5–6 | Proverbs 21 | Colossians 4 In Leviticus 5–6, we read about the final type of sacrifice under the old covenant Levitical priesthood: the guilt offering. The guilt offering was similar to the sin offering in two...
Bible Readings for April 2nd Leviticus 5 | Psalm 3–4 | Proverbs 20 | Colossians 3 In the Levitical sacrificial system, the offerings worshipers brought were, by design, costly. In the ancient world, wealth wasn’t measured as much by the number of dollars in a bank...
Bible Readings for April 1st Leviticus 4 | Psalms 1–2 | Proverbs 19 | Colossians 2 Yahweh’s instructions for presenting a sin offering stretch across Leviticus 4 and 5, and as we study these rules, remember that the sin offering was not the primary sacrifice offered...