numbers

Numbers

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1	Census	19	Laws of purification, cleansing
2	Arrangement of the tent city	20	Water from rock; leaders sin; Edom refuses
3	Levites, listed and located	21	Bronze serpent; journey and conquest
4	Branches of Levites and their work	22	Balaam called to curse Israel; Donkey talks
5	Rules for camp health and behavior	23	Balaam's first oracle
6	Choosing to be a Nazirite	24	Balaam continues to bless Israel
7	Offerings at the tabernacle dedication	25	Israel seduced by Moab; many die
8	Lamps set up; Levites dedicated	26	Second census
9	Passover and the cloud	27	Zelopheahad's daughters; Joshua to lead
10	Trumpets; leaving Sinai	28	Periodic offerings; Passover; Feast of Weeks
11	Quail sent although the Lord displeased	29	Feast of Trumpets; Day of Atonement
12	Rebellion of Miriam and Aaron	30	Rules for vows
13	Men sent to examine the land	31	Midianites punished
14	Rebellion; fear to enter	32	Tribes of Reuben and Gad, their inheritance
15	Offerings for after entering the land	33	Camp locations, Egypt to Canaan, divide the land
16	Korah, Dathan, and Abiram - rebellion	34	Boundaries set for Israel
17	Aaron's staff budded	35	Cities of refuge; towns for the Levites
18	Duties and offerings for priests & Levites	36	Inheritance of Zelopheehad's daughters

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leviticus

Leviticus
Illustrating the Way of Salvation � Righteousness by Faith
. A theme may be seen in charges from the Lord God: Be holy for I am holy. The first is in 14:44. Most of the worship principles are outlined in this book.

Chapter selection
1	Burnt offerings	10	Nadab and Abihu - profane fire	19	Laws for good behavior
2	Grain offerings	11	Clean and unclean creatures	20	Punishments for sin
3	Peace offerings	12	Rules for after childbirth	21	Rules for priests
4	Sin offerings	13	Law about leprosy	22	Holy things; improper offerings
5	Trespass offerings; restitution	14	Dealing with leprosy	23	List of feasts
6	Laws of Burnt, grain, and sin offr.	15	Dealing with bodily discharges	24	Lamps, bread, and blasphemy
7	Laws of other offerings	16	Day of atonement	25	Special year sabbaths
8	Inauguration represents Christ	17	Life in blood; not to be eaten	26	Results of obedience and not
9	Ministry of priests begins	18	Sexual morality	27	Dedicated property; tithe

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The book's significant structure

Themes	Chapters
Justification - blood	1-7 Sanctuary offerings and applications     8-10 Preparation of the priests         11-15 Health rules for everyone
Judgment	16 Day of atonement
Sanctification	17-20 Holiness of individuals     21-22 Holiness of priests 23-25 Holiness in the sanctuary

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Significance of the offerings

Offering	Meaning	Chap.
Burnt offering	All I am is Christ's	1
Grain offering	All I have is Christ's	2
Peace offering	All my joy is in Christ	3
Sin and trespass offerings	All my salvation is in Christ	4 & 5

Concepts for the two tables above are from Richard Davidson

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exodus

Exodus
From Egypt to the Sanctuary
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1	Egyptian bondage	15	Songs of Moses and Miriam; Marah	28	Attire for priests
2	Birth and sin of Moses	16	Manna and the Sabbath	29	Preparation of priests to minister
3	Moses called at burning bush	17	Water from the rock; Amalekites	30	Altar of incense; ransom; laver
4	Reluctance; I AM; Aaron	18	Jethro teaches administration	31	Skilled workers; Sabbath; stones
5	Encounter with Pharaoh	19	Covenant; people prepared for law	32	The golden calf, apostasy
6	Deliverance promised; Aaron	20	Ten commandments spoken	33	God's glory
7	M&A confront Ph; first plague	21	Laws: servants, violence, animals	34	New tables; covenant; M's face
8	Second plague; frogs	22	Property and moral laws	35	Tabernacle offerings; craftsmen
9	Plagues 5to7 cattle, boils, hail	23	Animals, land rest; feasts; angel	36	Bezaleel; generosity; building
10	Hardened; locusts; darkness	24	Covenant; on mountain with God	37	Furniture for inside tabernacle
11	Death of firstborn announced	25	Make sanctuary, ark, table, lamp	38	Furniture for the court
12	Passover; exit from Egypt	26	Make tabernacle, curtains, walls...	39	Garments, brestplate, finished
13	Firstborn consecrated	27	Altar; court; lampstand care	40	Tabernacle set up; glory
14	Crossing Red Sea

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genesis

Genesis
The test of faith
.For translation, try http://www.google.com/language_tools.

1	In the beginning; or notes page	18	Abraham pleads for Sodom	35	Jacob moves; Rachel & Isaac die
2	Before sin; or notes	19	Sodom; dialogue & destruction	36	Family of Esau; Edom
3	Sin enters; or notes	20	Abraham and Abimelech	37	Joseph's dreams and slavery
4	Cain kills Abel	21	Ishmael sent away	38	Judah, marriage problems
5	Genealogy - Enoch	22	Abraham to sacrifice Isaac	39	Joseph accused; goes to prison
6	Flood, limit of grace; chiasm	23	Sarah's death; land purchase	40	Dreams of prisoners
7	Ark entered; flood; death	24	Rebecca, wife for Isaac	41	Pharaoh's dream
8	Noah exits; creation-covenant	25	Keturah; death of Ab.; Esau	42	To Egypt for grain; called spies
9	Multiply; N. drunk, uncovered	26	Isaac, deception; Philistines	43	Benjamin comes too
10	Descendants of Noah	27	Jacob blessed, Esau angry	44	Cup found; intercession
11	The tower	28	Jacob flees; promise, Bethel	45	Joseph tells who he is
12	Abram called (later Abraham)	29	Jacob loves Rachel; gets Leah	46	Jacob moves to Egypt
13	Arrival in Canaan; Lot's choice	30	Children; plan with Laban	47	In Goshen, Famine survival
14	Lot rescued; Melchizedek	31	Jacob flees and Laban follows	48	Jacob and Joseph's sons
15	Covenant	32	Jacob perseveres in trouble	49	Jacob's prophecy about sons
16	Two wives; Hagar and Ishmael	33	Jacob meets Esau; Canaan	50	Joseph dies
17	Sarai and Hagar; covenant	34	Diana; brothers deceive and kill

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sara

sarai(yellow-blond)) was the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac

  Hebrew name Sarah indicates a woman of high rank and is translated as "princess" or "noblewoman"

 Sarah was the wife of Abraham, as well as being his half-sister, the daughter of his father Terah

 Sarah was ten years (or less) younger than her husband.^[3]

 She was considered beautiful to the point that Abraham feared that when they were near more powerful rulers she would be taken away and given to another man. Twice he purposefully identified her as being only his sister so that he would be "treated well" for her sake.^[4] It is apparent that she remained attractive into her later years, but was barren for an unstated reason.^[5] She was originally called "Sarai" which is translated "my princess." Later she was called "Sarah" i.e., princess."^[6] In biblical times, the changing of one's name was significant and used to symbolize the binding of a covenant


 Terah, with Abram (as he was then called), Sarai and Lot, departed for Canaan, but stopped in a place named Haran, where Terah remained until he died at the age of 205.^[9]


 Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and the wealth and persons that they had acquired, and traveled to Shechem in Canaan. Abram was 75 at this time.^[11]

In Genesis 17 when Abram was ninety-nine years old, God declared his new name: "Abraham" – "a father of many nations", and gave him the covenant of circumcision. God gave Sarai the new name "Sarah", and blessed her.^[17] Abraham was given assurance that Sarah would have a son. Not long afterwards, Abraham and Sarah were visited by three men. One of the visitors told Abraham that upon his return next year, Sarah would have a son. While at the tent entrance, Sarah overheard what was said, and she laughed to herself about the prospect of having a child at their ages. The visitor inquired of Abraham why Sarah laughed at the idea of bearing a child, for her age was as nothing to God. Frightened, Sarah denied laughing.
As had been prophesied in the previous year,^[18] Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham, at the very time which had been spoken. The patriarch, now a hundred years old, named the child "Isaac" (Hewbrew yitschaq, laughter) and circumcised him when he was eight days old.^[19] For Sarah, the thought of giving birth and nursing a child, at such an old age, also brought her much laughter, as she declared, "God hath made me to laugh, [so that] all that hear will laugh with me."^[20] Abraham held a great feast on the day when Isaac was to be weaned. It was during this banquet that Sarah happened upon the then teenaged Ishmael mocking^[21] and was so disturbed that she requested that both he and Hagar be removed from their company.^[22] Abraham was initially distressed by this but relented when told by God to do as his wife had asked.^[23]

 Sarah, who died at the age of 127, is the only woman in the Hebrew scriptures (Old Testament) whose age is given.^[27] Abraham buried her in the Cave of the Patriarchs (also called the Cave of Machpelah), near Hebron which he had purchased, along with the adjoining field, from Ephron the Hittite and laid her to rest in the cave.^[28]

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