Wednesday Bible study: Rod race

So this whole long stretch of the Book of Numbers is about one project and one project only: to hammer on the privileges of the House of Aaron. God has variously tortured and killed people who protested against it, but if that wasn ' t enough to convince you, he does a magic trick. BTW, a point of vocabulary. Cohen or Kohan simply means " priest. " The Bible uses the term for priests who serve other gods than Yahweh. Within the Levite tribe, which as a whole has special duties related to maintenance of the tabernacle and certain rituals, is the subset of the descendants of Aaron, who alone are Kohans and can perform the sacrifices and enter the sanctuary. They get a whole lot of swag out of the deal, as the next chapter will emphasize and expand on yet again. Oh yeah -- they wrote all this. Quite  coincidence.7 [a]TheLord said to Moses,2 “Speak to the Israelites and get twelve staffs from them, one from the leader of each of their ancestral tribes. Write the name of each man on his staff.3 On the staff of Levi write Aaron ’s name, for there must be one staff for the head of each ancestral tribe.4 Place them in the tent of meeting in front of the ark of the covenant law, where I meet with you.5 The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of this constant grumbling against you by the Israelites. ”6 So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and their leaders gave him twelve staffs, one for the leader of each of...
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