Yesterday's passage listed how the Lord would bless and reward obedience to His commandments. Today's passage talks about punishment for disobedience. People will be driven crazy by fear. Their enemies will defeat them. Their fruits would be dead. They would be consumed by disease, wild animals and the sword. The bread they would eat would not satisfy their hunger. Dead bodies would be piled on the lifeless forms of their idols. God would not destroy them completely and break His covenant.
The last chapter of Leviticus begins by giving value to people who were dedicated to the Lord. Below is a table of those values.
Age.......Sex.....Shekels....Weight......Equivalent of today's silver value $15.40/oz
20-60......M........50........20.oz........$308.00
20-60......F........30........12.oz........$184.80
05-20......M........20.........8.oz........$123.20
05-20......F........10.........4.oz.........$61.60
1M-5yr.....M.........5.........2.oz.........$30.80
1M-5yr.....F.........3........1.25.oz.......$19.25
60+yr......M........15.........6.oz.........$92.40
60+yr......F........10.........4.oz.........$61.60
Many possessions could be dedicated to the Lord and made holy, such as animals, houses, and land. No one could devote the firstborn animal since they all ready belonged to the Lord.
Numbers begins with a census. This is a census year here in the United States too. On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, God commanded Moses to call a man from each Tribe to be in charge of counting his own tribe. They were the heads of the tribes of Israel. All men 20 years and older who were able to serve in the army were listed by name.
From the tribe of...
Reuben....46,500
Simeon....59,300
Gad.......45,650
Judah.....74,600
Issachar..54,400
Zebulun...57,400
Ephraim...40,500
Manasseh..32,200
Benjamin..35,400
Dan.......62,700
Asher.....41,500
Naphtali..53,400 (I know, it's two verses past the end of today's reading, but I just couldn't stop with one more name to go!)
The total of 603,550 was the same number mentioned in Exodus 38:26 (Jan 30 entry)
Tomorrow read Numbers 1:42-3:32
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