Numbers 15; Numbers 16; Mark 6:1-29

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Numbers 15

2 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them, 'When you enter the land that I am giving you as a home,

3 give the Lord offerings made by fire. These may be from your herds or flocks, as a smell pleasing to the Lord. These may be burnt offerings or sacrifices for special promises, or as gifts to him, or as festival offerings.

4 The one who brings the offering shall also give the Lord a grain offering. It should be two quarts of fine flour mixed with one quart of olive oil.

5 Each time you offer a lamb as a burnt offering or sacrifice, also prepare a quart of wine as a drink offering.

6 "'If you are giving a male sheep, also prepare a grain offering of four quarts of fine flour mixed with one and one-fourth quarts of olive oil.

7 Also prepare one and one-fourth quarts of wine as a drink offering. Its smell will be pleasing to the Lord.

8 "'If you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, whether it is for a special promise or a fellowship offering to the Lord,

9 bring a grain offering with the bull. It should be six quarts of fine flour mixed with two quarts of olive oil.

10 Also bring two quarts of wine as a drink offering. This offering is made by fire, and its smell will be pleasing to the Lord.

11 Prepare each bull or male sheep, lamb or young goat this way.

12 Do this for every one of the animals you bring.

13 "'All citizens must do these things in this way, and the smell of their offerings by fire will be pleasing to the Lord.

14 From now on if foreigners who live among you want to make offerings by fire so the smell will be pleasing to the Lord, they must offer them the same way you do.

15 The law is the same for you and for foreigners, and it will be from now on; you and the foreigners are alike before the Lord.

16 The teachings and rules are the same for you and for the foreigners among you.'"

17 The Lord said to Moses,

18 "Tell the Israelites: 'You are going to another land, where I am taking you.

19 When you eat the food there, offer part of it to the Lord.

20 Offer a loaf of bread from the first of your grain, which will be your offering from the threshing floor.

21 From now on offer to the Lord the first part of your grain.

22 "'Now what if you forget to obey any of these commands the Lord gave Moses?

23 These are the Lord's commands given to you through Moses, which began the day the Lord gave them to you and will continue from now on.

24 If the people forget to obey one of these commands, all the people must offer a young bull as a burnt offering, a smell pleasing to the Lord. By law you must also give the grain offering and the drink offering with it, and you must bring a male goat as a sin offering.

25 "'The priest will remove that sin for all the Israelites so they will belong to the Lord. They are forgiven, because they didn't know they were sinning. For the wrong they did they brought offerings to the Lord, an offering by fire and a sin offering.

26 So all of the people of Israel and the foreigners living among them will be forgiven. No one meant to do wrong.

27 "'If just one person sins without meaning to, a year-old female goat must be brought for a sin offering.

28 The priest will remove the sin of the person who sinned accidentally. He will remove it before the Lord, and the person will be forgiven.

29 The same teaching is for everyone who sins accidentally -- for those born Israelites and for foreigners living among you.

30 "'But anyone who sins on purpose is against the Lord and must be cut off from the people, whether it is someone born among you or a foreigner.

31 That person has turned against the Lord's word and has not obeyed his commands. Such a person must surely be cut off from the others. He is guilty.'"

32 When the Israelites were still in the desert, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and all the people.

34 They held the man under guard, because they did not know what to do with him.

35 Then the Lord said to Moses, "The man must surely die. All the people must kill him by throwing stones at him outside the camp."

36 So all the people took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord commanded Moses.

37 The Lord said to Moses,

38 "Speak to the Israelites and tell them this: 'Tie several pieces of thread together and attach them to the corners of your clothes. Put a blue thread in each one of these tassels. Wear them from now on.

39 You will have these tassels to look at to remind you of all the Lord's commands. Then you will obey them and not be disloyal by following what your bodies and eyes want.

40 Then you will remember to obey all my commands, and you will be God's holy people.

41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.'" Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and On

Numbers 16

1 Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and On turned against Moses. (Korah was the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi; Dathan and Abiram were brothers, the sons of Eliab; and On was the son of Peleth; Dathan, Abiram, and On were from the tribe of Reuben.)

2 These men gathered two hundred fifty other Israelite men, well-known leaders chosen by the community, and challenged Moses.

3 They came as a group to speak to Moses and Aaron and said, "You have gone too far. All the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. So why do you put yourselves above all the people of the Lord?"

4 When Moses heard this, he bowed facedown.

5 Then he said to Korah and all his followers: "Tomorrow morning the Lord will show who belongs to him. He will bring the one who is holy near to him; he will bring to himself the person he chooses.

6 So Korah, you and all your followers do this: Get some pans for burning incense.

7 Tomorrow put fire and incense in them and take them before the Lord. He will choose the man who is holy. You Levites have gone too far."

8 Moses also said to Korah, "Listen, you Levites.

9 The God of Israel has sep-arated you from the rest of the Israelites. He brought you near to himself to do the work in the Lord's Holy Tent and to stand before all the Israelites and serve them. Isn't that enough?

10 He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near to himself, yet now you want to be priests.

11 You and your followers have joined together against the Lord. Your complaint is not against Aaron."

12 Then Moses called Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, "We will not come!

13 You have brought us out of a fertile land to this desert to kill us, and now you want to order us around.

14 You haven't brought us into a fertile land; you haven't given us any land with fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? No! We will not come!"

15 Then Moses became very angry and said to the Lord, "Don't accept their gifts. I have not taken anything from them, not even a donkey, and I have not done wrong to any of them."

16 Then Moses said to Korah, "You and all your followers must stand before the Lord tomorrow. And Aaron will stand there with you and them.

17 Each of you must take your pan and put incense in it; present these two hundred fifty pans before the Lord. You and Aaron must also present your pans."

18 So each man got his pan and put burning incense in it and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the Meeting Tent.

19 Korah gathered all his followers who were against Moses and Aaron, and they stood at the entrance to the Meeting Tent. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to everyone.

20 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

21 "Move away from these men so I can destroy them quickly."

22 But Moses and Aaron bowed facedown and cried out, "God, you are the God over the spirits of all people. Please don't be angry with this whole group. Only one man has really sinned."

23 Then the Lord said to Moses,

24 "Tell everyone to move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram."

25 Moses stood and went to Dathan and Abiram; the older leaders of Israel followed him.

26 Moses warned the people, "Move away from the tents of these evil men! Don't touch anything of theirs, or you will be destroyed because of their sins."

27 So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram were standing outside their tents with their wives, children, and little babies.

28 Then Moses said, "Now you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these things; it was not my idea.

29 If these men die a normal death -- the way men usually die -- then the Lord did not really send me.

30 But if the Lord does something new, you will know they have insulted the Lord. The ground will open and swallow them. They will be buried alive and will go to the place of the dead, and everything that belongs to them will go with them."

31 When Moses finished saying these things, the ground under the men split open.

32 The earth opened and swallowed them and all their families. All Korah's men and everything they owned went down.

33 They were buried alive, going to the place of the dead, and everything they owned went with them. Then the earth covered them. They died and were gone from the community.

34 The people of Israel around them heard their screams and ran away, saying, "The earth will swallow us, too!"

35 Then a fire came down from the Lord and destroyed the two hundred fifty men who had presented the incense.

36 The Lord said to Moses,

37 "Tell Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, to take all the incense pans out of the fire. Have him scatter the coals a long distance away. But the incense pans are still holy.

38 Take the pans of these men who sinned and lost their lives, and hammer them into flat sheets that will be used to cover the altar. They are holy, because they were presented to the Lord, and they will be a sign to the Israelites."

39 So Eleazar the priest gathered all the bronze pans that had been brought by the men who were burned up. He had the pans hammered into flat sheets to put on the altar,

40 as the Lord had commanded him through Moses. These sheets were to remind the Israelites that only descendants of Aaron should burn incense before the Lord. Anyone else would die like Korah and his followers.

41 The next day all the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron and said, "You have killed the Lord's people."

42 When the people gathered to complain against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the Meeting Tent, and the cloud covered it. The glory of the Lord appeared.

43 Then Moses and Aaron went in front of the Meeting Tent.

44 The Lord said to Moses,

45 "Move away from these people so I can destroy them quickly." So Moses and Aaron bowed facedown.

46 Then Moses said to Aaron, "Get your pan, and put fire from the altar and incense in it. Hurry to the people and remove their sin. The Lord is angry with them; the sickness has already started."

47 So Aaron did as Moses said. He ran to the middle of the people, where the sickness had already started among them. So Aaron offered the incense to remove their sin.

48 He stood between the dead and the living, and the sickness stopped there.

49 But 14,700 people died from that sickness, in addition to those who died because of Korah.

50 Then Aaron went back to Moses at the entrance to the Meeting Tent. The terrible sickness had been stopped.

Mark 6:1-29

1 Jesus left there and went to his hometown, and his followers went with him.

2 On the Sabbath day he taught in the synagogue. Many people heard him and were amazed, saying, "Where did this man get these teachings? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? And where did he get the power to do miracles?

3 He is just the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon. And his sisters are here with us." So the people were upset with Jesus.

4 Jesus said to them, "A prophet is honored everywhere except in his hometown and with his own people and in his own home."

5 So Jesus was not able to work any miracles there except to heal a few sick people by putting his hands on them.

6 He was amazed at how many people had no faith. Then Jesus went to other villages in that area and taught.

7 He called his twelve followers together and got ready to send them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits.

8 This is what Jesus commanded them: "Take nothing for your trip except a walking stick. Take no bread, no bag, and no money in your pockets.

9 Wear sandals, but take only the clothes you are wearing.

10 When you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town.

11 If the people in a certain place refuse to welcome you or listen to you, leave that place. Shake its dust off your feetn as a warning to them."

12 So the followers went out and preached that people should change their hearts and lives.

13 They forced many demons out and put olive oil on many sick people and healed them.

14 King Herod heard about Jesus, because he was now well known. Some people said, "He is John the Baptist, who has risen from the dead. That is why he can work these miracles."

15 Others said, "He is Elijah." Other people said, "Jesus is a prophet, like the prophets who lived long ago."

16 When Herod heard this, he said, "I killed John by cutting off his head. Now he has risen from the dead!"

17 Herod himself had ordered his soldiers to arrest John and put him in prison in order to please his wife, Herodias. She had been the wife of Philip, Herod's brother, but then Herod had married her.

18 John had been telling Herod, "It is not lawful for you to be married to your brother's wife."

19 So Herodias hated John and wanted to kill him. But she couldn't,

20 because Herod was afraid of John and protected him. He knew John was a good and holy man. Also, though John's preaching always bothered him, he enjoyed listening to John.

21 Then the perfect time came for Herodias to cause John's death. On Herod's birthday, he gave a dinner party for the most important government leaders, the commanders of his army, and the most important people in Galilee.

22 When the daughter of Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and the people eating with him. So King Herod said to the girl, "Ask me for anything you want, and I will give it to you."

23 He promised her, "Anything you ask for I will give to you -- up to half of my kingdom."

24 The girl went to her mother and asked, "What should I ask for?" Her mother answered, "Ask for the head of John the Baptist."

25 At once the girl went back to the king and said to him, "I want the head of John the Baptist right now on a platter."

26 Although the king was very sad, he had made a promise, and his dinner guests had heard it. So he did not want to refuse what she asked.

27 Immediately the king sent a soldier to bring John's head. The soldier went and cut off John's head in the prison

28 and brought it back on a platter. He gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

29 When John's followers heard this, they came and got John's body and put it in a tomb.

Numbers 15; Numbers 16; Mark 6:1-29

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