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Leviticus, Part 2 and Numbers, Part 1: Holy Days, Holy People
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Lesson OneSacred Time: Sabbath and Jubilee (Lev 25)13 Activities
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Lesson Text: Leviticus 25
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In | Workbook: Sabbath in the Pentateuch
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In | Sacred Time
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In | Jubilee
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Behind | Agricultural Context
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Behind | Workbook: The Sabbath, Ancient and New
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In Front | Jesus and the Sabbath
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In Front | Jesus and the Jubilee
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In Front | Christians, Sabbath and the Jubilee
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In Front | Christianity Today: Jubilee 2000: Poor Nations Get Debt Relief
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In Front | Workbook: Jubilee 2000: Poor Nations Get Debt Relief
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Wrap-Up
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Lesson TwoSacred Time: Pilgrimage Festivals (Lev 23, Num 9, 28-29; Deut 16)12 Activities
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Lesson Text: Leviticus 23; Numbers 9, 28-29; Deuteronomy 16
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In | Workbook: Sacred Days
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In | Pilgrimage Holidays
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In | Agricultural, Historical and Prophetic Context
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In | Workbook: Prophetic Dimensions of the Pilgrimage Holidays
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Behind | Seasons, Gods and Israel's Calendar
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Behind | Onsite: The Story of the Bible in a Sheaf of Wheat
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Behind | Onsite: Booths in the Wilderness - Recalling the Past, Anticipating Eternity
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In Front | The Biblical Calendar and the Church Calendar
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In Front | Workbook: The Biblical Calendar and the Church Calendar - Overlap and Expansion
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Lesson ThreeSacred Community (Lev 11-20)14 Activities|3 Assessments
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Lesson Text: Leviticus 11-20
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In | Workbook: Scale Disease
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In | Scale Disease
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In | Uncleanness and Impurity
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In | Rites of Purification
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In | Imperfection
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In | The Democracy of Impurity
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Behind | Impurity and Access to the Divine
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In Front | Holiness Today
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In Front | Christians and Defilement
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In Front | Our Daily Bread: The Leviticus Reminder
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In Front | Workbook: Guiding Questions - Leviticus
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Wrap-Up
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Lesson FourPeople Ready (Num 1-10)15 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson Text: Numbers 1-10
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In | Workbook: Censuses
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In | The People Are Ready
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In | Workbook: The Meaning of ‘Eleph
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In | The Levites
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In | The Purity of the Camp
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In | Trumpets
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Behind | Tribal Encampments
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Behind | Organization of the Camp
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In Front | Numbers Matter
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In Front | Onsite: The Aaronic Benediction
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In Front | Our Daily Bread: God’s Way
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In Front | Ecclesiology: Commissioner Phil Needham
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Lesson FivePeople Not Ready (Num 11-20)20 Activities
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Lesson Text: Numbers 11-20
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In | Literary Structures
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In | Chiasm Joshua
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In | Workbook: Moses’ Chiastic Speech
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In | Chronic Faithlessness
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In | Rebellion of the People
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In | Rebellion of the Priests
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In | Rebellion of Moses
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In | The Bible Project: Numbers
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Behind | Geography
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Behind | Onsite: Water from the Rock
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Behind | Ethnic Diversity
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Behind | Quail
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In Front | Judgment Is Inevitable
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In Front | Lost and Second Chances
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In Front | Painting Pictures of Egypt: Sara Groves
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In Front | Our Daily Bread: Are You a Complainer?
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In Front | Workbook: The Uniqueness of Leviticus and Numbers
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Lesson 4, Activity 3
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In | Workbook: Censuses
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[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]
In the opening chapters of Numbers there are two Levitical censuses, in chapters 3 and 4. The first census is found in 3:14-39 and the second in 4:1-49. They may seem redundant at a glance, but there are significant differences between them.
- Read the first few verses of each: 3:14-16 and 4:1-4. What difference surfaces here at the outset of each census?
There may be multiple reasons for the retirement age in chapter 4, but the likeliest reason is simply that being a Levite was a lot of work. Much of it was demanding physical labor, and although the Levites listed here didn’t have to dismantle the Tabernacle, they did have to carry it between encampments.