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  1. May 6 - Miriam, the First Mary

    book
    05/06/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    מרים - And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there. NUMBERS 20:1
    May 6 - Miriam, the First Mary

  2. May 5 - The Ashes of a Red Heifer

    book
    05/05/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    פרה אדמה - “This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come. And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him." NUMBERS 19:2–3
    May 5 - The Ashes of a Red Heifer

  3. May 4 - A Royal and Priestly Uniform

    book
    05/04/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    ציצת - The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after." NUMBERS 15:37–39
    May 4 - A Royal and Priestly Uniform

  4. May 3 - Resident Aliens in Israel

    book
    05/03/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    גר - "And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living permanently among you, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he shall do as you do." NUMBERS 15:14
    May 3 - Resident Aliens in Israel

  5. May 2 - The Good News of God’s Long Nose

    book
    05/02/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    ארך אפים - ‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’ NUMBERS 14:18
    May 2 - The Good News of God’s Long Nose

  6. May 1 - Grasshoppers and Giants

    book
    05/01/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    נפלים - So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” NUMBERS 13:32–33
    May 1 - Grasshoppers and Giants

  7. April 30 - Mouth-to-Mouth Conversation

    book
    04/30/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    פה אל פה - And [God] said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream. Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house. With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord.” NUMBERS 12:6–8
    April 30 - Mouth-to-Mouth Conversation

  8. April 29 - When God Smiles

    book
    04/29/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    פנים - The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. “So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.” NUMBERS 6:24–27
    April 29 - When God Smiles

  9. April 28 - Year of the Ram’s Horn

    book
    04/28/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    יובל - “On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.” LEVITICUS 25:9–10
    April 28 - Year of the Ram’s Horn

  10. April 27 - Feast of Huts

    book
    04/27/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    סכות - “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord... You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.” LEVITICUS 23:34, 42–43
    April 27 - Feast of Huts

  11. April 26 - The Day of Affliction and Atonement

    book
    04/26/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    ענה - And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the Lord. And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God." LEVITICUS 23:26–28
    April 26 - The Day of Affliction and Atonement

  12. April 25 - The Feast of Weeks

    book
    04/25/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    שׁבעת - “You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord." LEVITICUS 23:15–16
    April 25 - The Feast of Weeks