Week 6 Numbers 6
Schedule for Today: Numbers Four-Five-Six.
Four gives instructions to the three families of priests (Kohath & Gershon & Merari) for dismantling and transporting the tabernacle.
Five is the (baffling) Adultery Test. [In the NT the Lord said Moses had given the law of divorce because people had hard-hearts. I don’t know how many laws were created because of hard-heartedness or envy jealousy hatred lust anger pride or like that. But this one sounds like a candidate.]
Six is the Nazarite Vow. This chapter is pretty interesting and so I slow down to look at the elements of an unusual and added-effort vow. Until about half-way through the chapter when I look at my watch. Yikes! My time’s up!
I’ve walked into a bible-reader’s quandary: do I stop right now and come back to it tomorrow…or gallop through and finish the chapter? Executive decision-making time… Since I want to finish the chapter I start speed-reading. And that works okay until I get near the end…
May the Lord bless you and protect you.
May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you.
May the Lord show you his favour and give you his peace.
This is one of the great-great paragraphs in the bible and I realize it’s crazy to blast right on through. I pretty much have to slow down. It only takes 15-seconds to read anyway. So I take 30 to read it twice. Slowly.
Note: quote from Numbers 6:24-26 (NIV); see Matthew 19:7-9.