: Wednesday Bible study: The priests rake in more swag, and some serious psychopathy

In Numbers 15, Yahweh takes the opportunity to give the people orders for stuff they are supposed to do when they entered the promised land, which will not happen until for forty years later. Hopefully they ' ll remember! Specifically, in addition to the sacrifices they have already been ordered to make, they will need to throw in a lot of grain and olive oil, and sometimes wine. Well, a priest has to eat! Then something extremely ugly happens. 15 TheLord said to Moses,2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘After you enter the land I am giving you as a home3 and you present to theLord food offerings from the herd or the flock, as an aroma pleasing to theLord—whether burnt offerings or sacrifices, for special vows or freewill offerings or festival offerings—4 then the person who brings an offering shall present to theLord a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah[a] of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin[b] of olive oil.5 With each lamb for the burnt offering or the sacrifice, prepare a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering.6 “‘With a ram prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah[c] of the finest flour mixed with a third of a hin[d] of olive oil,7 and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering. Offer it as an aroma pleasing to theLord.8 “‘When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, for a special vow or a fellowship offering to theLord,9 bring with the bull a g...
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