From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for February 15   
      
   Numbers Chapter 8   
      
   1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   
      
   2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the   
   seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.   
      
   3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the   
   candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.   
      
   4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft   
   thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the   
   pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.   
      
   5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   
      
   6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.   
      
   7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of   
   purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them   
   wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.   
      
   8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine   
   flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a   
   sin offering.   
      
   9 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the   
   congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children   
   of Israel together:   
      
   10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of   
   Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:   
      
   11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of   
   the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.   
      
   12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks:   
   and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a   
   burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.   
      
   13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and   
   offer them for an offering unto the LORD.   
      
   14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of   
   Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.   
      
   15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the   
   tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer   
   them for an offering.   
      
   16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel;   
   instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all   
   the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.   
      
   17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man   
   and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt   
   I sanctified them for myself.   
      
   18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of   
   Israel.   
      
   19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from   
   among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of   
   Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement   
   for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children   
   of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.   
      
   20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of   
   Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded   
   Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.   
      
   21 And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and   
   Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an   
   atonement for them to cleanse them.   
      
   22 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the   
   tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the   
   LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.   
      
   23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   
      
   24 This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five   
   years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the   
   tabernacle of the congregation:   
      
   25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the   
   service thereof, and shall serve no more:   
      
   26 But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the   
   congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt   
   thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.   
      
   Numbers Chapter 9   
      
   1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first   
   month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt,   
   saying,   
      
   2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.   
      
   3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his   
   appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all   
   the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.   
      
   4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the   
   passover.   
      
   5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at   
   even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD   
   commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.   
      
   6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a   
   man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came   
   before Moses and before Aaron on that day:   
      
   7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man:   
   wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the   
   LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?   
      
   8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD   
   will command concerning you.   
      
   9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   
      
   10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of   
   your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a   
   journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.   
      
   11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it,   
   and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.   
      
   12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of   
   it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.   
      
   13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to   
   keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his   
   people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed   
   season, that man shall bear his sin.   
      
   14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover   
   unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according   
   to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both   
   for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.   
      
   15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered   
   the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was   
   upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.   
      
   16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of   
   fire by night.   
      
   17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that   
   the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud   
   abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.   
      
   18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and   
   at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode   
      
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