Good Morning. So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall attend to their priesthood. (Numbers 3:10) Just as the Levites were set apart from the rest of the tribes of Israel, so too were the priests set apart from the Levites. Let's put it this way: Israel...

Good Morning. Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him. And they shall attend to his needs and the needs of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of meeting. (Numbers 3:6-7) Anyone who has worked in...

Good Morning. Now these are the records of Aaron and Moses when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. And these are the names of the sons of Aaron. (Numbers 3:1-2) This chapter begins with a record of the “offspring of Aaron and Moses,” yet only Aaron’s sons are...

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...