CEB Common English Bible with Apocrypha - eBook [ePub]. Common English Bible

CEB Common English Bible with Apocrypha - eBook [ePub]

to the sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; ⁸⁰one gold bowl weighing ten shekels full of incense; ⁸¹one bull from the herd, one ram, one year-old male lamb for an entirely burned offering; ⁸²one male goat for a purification offering; ⁸³and for the well-being sacrifice two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira, Enan's son.

⁸⁴This is what the Israelite chiefs provided for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver basins, and twelve gold bowls; ⁸⁵each silver dish weighing one hundred thirty shekels and each basin seventy shekels--all the silver equipment weighed two thousand four hundred shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; ⁸⁶the twelve gold bowls full of incense weighing ten shekels each according to the sanctuary shekel--all the gold of the bowls weighed one hundred twenty shekels; ⁸⁷all the animals for the entirely burned offering were twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs a year old, with their grain offering; twelve male goats for the purification offering; ⁸⁸and all the animals for the well-being sacrifice were twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.

Moses in the dwelling

⁸⁹When Moses entered the meeting tent to speak with the LORD,^e he would hear the voice speaking to him from above the cover^f that was on the chest containing the covenant, from between the two winged creatures. In this way he spoke to Moses.

The lampstand

Numbers 8The LORD spoke to Moses: ²Speak to Aaron and say to him: When you set them up, the seven lamps will give light in front of the lampstand.

³Aaron did so. He set up its lamps in front of the lampstand as the LORD commanded Moses. ⁴This is how the lampstand was made: it was hammered gold; from its base to its flower it was hammered. Moses made the lampstand according to the vision that the LORD had shown Moses.

Dedication of the Levites

⁵The LORD spoke to Moses: ⁶Separate the Levites from the Israelites and cleanse them. ⁷This is what you will do to them to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purification on them, have them shave their bodies, wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves. ⁸They will take a bull from the herd, with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil. You will take a second bull from the herd for a purification offering. ⁹You will bring the Levites before the meeting tent and gather the entire Israelite community. ¹⁰Then you will bring the Levites into the LORD's presence, and the Israelites will lay their hands on the Levites. ¹¹Aaron will present the Levites as an uplifted offering in the LORD's presence from the Israelites so that they may do the LORD's service. ¹²Then the Levites will lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and Aaron will offer one as a purification offering and the other as an entirely burned offering to the LORD in order to seek reconciliation for the Levites.

¹³You will have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons and you will present them as an uplifted offering to the LORD. ¹⁴You will separate the Levites from the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine. ¹⁵The Levites will enter to serve the meeting tent, after you have cleansed them and presented them as an uplifted offering. ¹⁶They are given over to me from the Israelites in place of all the newborn, the oldest of all the Israelites. I take them for myself. ¹⁷Every oldest male among the Israelites is mine, whether human or animal. When I killed all the oldest males in the land of Egypt, I dedicated them to myself. ¹⁸I have taken the Levites in place of all the oldest among the Israelites. ¹⁹I have selected the Levites from the Israelites for Aaron and his sons to perform the service of the Israelites in the meeting tent and to seek reconciliation for the Israelites so that there will not be a plague when the Israelites approach the sanctuary.

²⁰Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community carried out for the Levites everything the LORD had commanded Moses. That is what the Israelites did for the Levites. ²¹The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes. Aaron presented them as an uplifted offering in the LORD's presence, and he sought reconciliation for them in order to cleanse them. ²²After this the Levites went in to perform their service in the meeting tent before Aaron and his sons. They did for the Levites just as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning them.

²³The LORD spoke to Moses: ²⁴This rule applies^g to the Levites: Everyone 25 years old and above will enter into service, performing the duties for the meeting tent. ²⁵At 50 years old each will retire from service. They will perform their duties no longer. ²⁶Each may assist his fellow Levites in the meeting tent with some responsibilities, but he may not perform service. This is how you should assign responsibilities to the Levites.

Passover

Numbers 9The LORD spoke to Moses in the Sinai desert in the first month^h of the second year after they had left the land of Egypt: ²Let the Israelites keep the Passover at its appointed time. ³On the fourteenth day of this month at twilight you will keep it at its appointed time. Keep it according to all its regulations and its customary practices.

⁴Moses instructed the Israelites to keep the Passover. ⁵At twilight on the fourteenth day of the first monthⁱ they kept the Passover in the Sinai desert. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD commanded Moses.

⁶But there were persons who were unclean from contact with a human corpse, and they were unable to keep the Passover on that day. They approached Moses and Aaron that day. ⁷These persons said to him, "Although we are unclean from contact with a human corpse, why must we be prohibited from presenting the LORD's offering at its appointed time with the rest of the Israelites?"

⁸Moses said to them, "Wait while I listen for what the LORD will command concerning you."

⁹The LORD spoke to Moses: ¹⁰Tell the Israelites: When any of you or your descendants are unclean from contact with a corpse or are on a long trip, they may still keep the Passover to the LORD. ¹¹They will keep it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month.^j They will eat the Passover lamb with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. ¹²They must not leave any of it until morning, nor break any of its bones. They will keep the Passover according to all its regulations. ¹³But any persons who are clean and not on a trip, yet don't keep the Passover, those persons will be cut off from their people, because they didn't present the LORD's offering at its appointed time. Those persons will bear their sin. ¹⁴If an immigrant resides among you and wishes to keep the Passover to the LORD, that one also will keep it according to its regulations and its customary practices. There will be one set of regulations for both of you, for the immigrant and for the native of the land.

Cloud over the dwelling

¹⁵On the day the dwelling was erected, the cloud covered the dwelling, the covenant tent. At night until morning, the cloud appeared with lightning over the dwelling. ¹⁶It was always there. The cloud covered it by day,^k appearing with lightning at night. ¹⁷Whenever the cloud ascended from the tent, the Israelites would march. And the Israelites would camp wherever the cloud settled. ¹⁸At the LORD's command, the Israelites would march, and at the LORD's command they would camp. As long as the cloud settled on the dwelling, they would camp. ¹⁹When the cloud lingered on the meeting tent for many days, the Israelites would observe the LORD's direction and they wouldn't march. ²⁰Sometimes the cloud would be over the dwelling for a number of days, so they would camp at the LORD's command, marching again only at the LORD's command. ²¹Sometimes the cloud would settle only overnight, and they would march when the cloud ascended in the morning. Whether it was day or night, they would march when the cloud ascended. ²²Whether it was two days, or a month, or a long time, the Israelites would camp so long as the cloud lingered on the dwelling

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