Good Morning. All who were numbered of the forces with Dan, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred—they shall break camp last, with their standards.(Numbers 2:31) Though the camp of Dan was positioned in the north, it was the camp assigned to bring up the...

Good Morning. And the tabernacle of meeting shall move out with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps. (Numbers 2:17) Just as the Sanctuary was situated in the midst of the camps of Israel when they were stationary, so it was as they moved through the...

Good Morning. On the east side, toward the rising of the sun, those of the standard of the forces with Judah shall camp according to their armies. (Numbers 2:3) There are probably multiple reasons that the camp led by Judah was situated to the east and thus lead the...

Good Morning. Everyone of the children of Israel shall camp by his own standard, beside the emblems of his father’s house; they shall camp some distance from the tabernacle of meeting. (Numbers 2:2) As most know, the twelve tribes were organized into four main camps,...

Good Morning. But the Levites were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe; for the Lord had spoken to Moses, saying: “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, nor take a census of them among the children of Israel." (Numbers 1:47-49) In regard to those...

Good Morning. And with you there shall be a man from every tribe, each one the head of his father’s house. These are the names of the men who shall stand with you...(Numbers 1:4-5) There are twenty-four names listed in the next several verses: twelve are the men who...

Good Morning. Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above—all who are able to go to war in Israel. (Numbers...

Good Morning. Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above—all who are able to go to war in Israel. (Numbers...

Good Morning. Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying: “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of...

Good Morning. When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the Lord, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. (Leviticus 27:14) Apparently it was common for people to dedicate property, whether...

Good Morning. When a man consecrates by a vow certain persons to the Lord, according to your valuation ... then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. (Leviticus 27:2-3) The book of Leviticus ends as it began –- with...

Good Morning. But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord. (Leviticus 26:45) When mentioning the covenant made with the patriarchs,...