Take the Levites from among all the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean

 Numbers 7-8

So Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites. He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their work required, and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their work required. They were all under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest. But Moses did not give any to the Kohathites, because they were to carry on their shoulders the holy things, for which they were responsible.

 When the altar was anointed, the leaders brought their offerings for its dedication and presented them before the altar. For the Lord had said to Moses, “Each day one leader is to bring his offering for the dedication of the altar.”

The one who brought his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab of the tribe of Judah.

On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, the leader of Issachar, brought his offering.

On the third day, Eliab son of Helon, the leader of the people of Zebulun, brought his offering.

On the fourth day Elizur son of Shedeur, the leader of the people of Reuben, brought his offering.

On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, the leader of the people of Simeon, brought his offering.

On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, the leader of the people of Gad, brought his offering.

On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, the leader of the people of Ephraim, brought his offering.

On the eighth day Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, the leader of the people of Manasseh, brought his offering.

On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, the leader of the people of Benjamin, brought his offering.

On the tenth day Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai, the leader of the people of Dan, brought his offering.

On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Okran, the leader of the people of Asher, brought his offering.

On the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, the leader of the people of Naphtali, brought his offering.

The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you set up the lamps, see that all seven light up the area in front of the lampstand.’”

The Lord said to Moses: “Take the Levites from among all the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean. 

The Lord said to Moses, “This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years old or more shall come to take part in the work at the tent of meeting, but at the age of fifty, they must retire from their regular service and work no longer.

25~50 years is the best time in our lives to serve the Lord.

How?

To serve the Lord requires some qualities; they are the chosen ones.

Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by on

 Numbers 1-3

The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: “Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one. You and Aaron are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more and able to serve in the army.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: “The Israelites are to camp around the tent of meeting some distance from it, each of them under their standard and holding the banners of their family.”

The Lord said to Moses, “Bring the tribe of Levi and present them to Aaron the priest to assist him. They are to perform duties for him and for the whole community at the tent of meeting by doing the work of the tabernacle.

The Lord said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn Israelite males who are a month old or more and make a list of their names. Take the Levites for me in place of all the firstborn of the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites in place of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites. I am the Lord.”

The Lord also said to Moses, “Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of their livestock. The Levites are to be mine. I am the Lord. To redeem the 273 firstborn Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites, collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. Give the money for the redemption of the additional Israelites to Aaron and his sons.

Why?

The Lord asked Moses to count the number os Israelites, let them know how many people they were, and after arriving in the promised land, they may count the mercy and grace that the Lord has given them.

Count the man only, for a man means their family and their clans.

Every firstborn man belongs to the Lord; the Levites took all the firstborn of Israel, so redeem them with money. It is like the devotion of all Israelites.

How?

First born is belong to the Lord, so the one ten of our imcome are belong to the either. It is not means God like our money, but it means all we have are the grace of the Lord, this one ten is belong to the Lord.

If they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors

 Leviticus 26-27

Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.

Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land. I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid.

I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.

But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.

But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the Lord established at Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

Why?

The Lord already knows that the Israelites will not listen to the word of the Lord, their hearts are attracted by idols, and they are unfaithful to the Lord.

But the Lord is full of love and mercy to his people, if they confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors and return to the Lord and humble themselves, the Lord will remember the covenant with Abranhsm, and Jacob and Isaac. 

Why?

No matter what happened, if anyone confesses his sins and returns to the Lord, there is a way to get salvation from the Lord. For the Lord is full of love, and everyone was a sinner.

It is no my effort or my work, but it is the love and mercy of the Lord come upon me, so I can be a Christian, a son of the Lord. Not because of who I am, but because of who He is, not because of what I have done, but because of God's salvation and great works on me.

How?

Praise the Homy name of the Lord, and give thanks to the Lord, obey God's words forever!

Offering in different season and festivals

 Leviticus 23-24

These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. 

The Sabbath: the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly.

The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread: The Lord’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days, you must eat bread made without yeast.

Offering the First Fruits: When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.

The Feastival of Weeks: From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.

The Feastival of Trumpet: On the first day of the seventh month, you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. Do no regular work, but present a food offering to the Lord

The Day of Atonement: The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present a food offering to the Lord. Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement.

The Festival of Tabernacles: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work. For seven days, present food offerings to the Lord, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the Lord. It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.

Olive Oil and Bread Set Before the Lord: Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually. 

Why?

The Lord asked his people to remember they belong to the Lord, and in their living environment, have many festivals to remember the grace of the Lord and honor the Holy Name of the Lord every day.

Oliver Oil is the best oil before the Lord and human beings. Bread is Israelite main food daily, to worship the Lord daily and provide food to the Priests before the Lord.

How?

We celebrate the New Year each year, and we also need to remember that all we have are the blessings from the Lord, so we should give feedback to all the workers of the Lord in my church. And share our blessing to the needy persons.

 Leviticus 19-20

Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy. Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

When you sacrifice a fellowship offering to the Lord, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf. It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it or on the next day.

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.  Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.

Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it.

Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the Lord. 

Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him. 

If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.

Why?

Because the Lord is Holy, every Israelite and every Christian needs to keep a holy life, no immoral sexual relationships with others.

How?

This generation is a evil generation, many sins and idol worship are popular, may the Lord blesses me living with pure hear, clean mind and honor the Holy name of the Lord.

The day of Atonment: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work

 Leviticus 15,16

When any man has an unusual bodily discharge, such a discharge is unclean. Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring about uncleannes.

When a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his clothes and bathe himself with fresh water, and he will be clean. On the eighth day he must take two doves or two young pigeons and come before the Lord to the entrance to the tent of meeting and give them to the priest. The priest is to sacrifice them, the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement before the Lord for the man because of his discharge.

When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening.

When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.

When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat. He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head. He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of someone appointed for the task. The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a remote place; and the man shall release it in the wilderness.

Then Aaron is to go into the tent of meeting and take off the linen garments he put on before he entered the Most Holy Place, and he is to leave them there. He shall bathe himself with water in the sanctuary area and put on his regular garments. Then he shall come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the people, to make atonement for himself and for the people. He shall also burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.

This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work.

“This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites.”

Why?

It is important to all Israelites and to all Christians. Remember, we were atoned through the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross.

How?

Remember we were sinners and saved by the Lord, keep the love and faith and hope in my life.

Regulations About Defiling Molds

 Leviticus 13

Regulations About Defiling Skin Diseases: The priest is to examine that person, and if the rash has spread in the skin, he shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease.

Regulations About Defiling Molds:

“But if, when the priest examines it, the mold has not spread in the fabric, the woven or knitted material, or the leather article, he shall order that the spoiled article be washed. Then he is to isolate it for another seven days.

These are the regulations concerning defiling molds in woolen or linen clothing, woven or knitted material, or any leather article, for pronouncing them clean or unclean.

Why?

These regulations are used to prevent the molds from spreading and affecting more people get disease. And keep the other people's health.

How?

Even now, we are still fighting many diseases. For our health and joyful living.