Sunday Sermonette: My eyes glaze over

Numbers 28 is basically a repetition of previous instructions to make temple offerings. I haven ' t gone back to compare everything, but it does seem to be very interested in adding substantial quantities of wine and olive oil to the formulas. It also emphasizes how much God loves the smell of burning meat. Remember, however, that it is only the abdominal fat and offal that is burned. The priests get to keep the meat and hides, along with the other swag. In the first reference to wine it is to be " poured out " in the sanctuary but I strongly suspect it wound up being poured down the throats of the priests. The priesthood is kind of like Jim and Tammy Fae Baker, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell and that crowd: your first and foremost religious duty is to give them money.28 TheLord said to Moses,2 “Give this command to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Make sure that you present to me at the appointed time my food offerings, as an aroma pleasing to me.’3 Say to them: ‘This is the food offering you are to present to theLord: two lambs a year old without defect, as a regular burnt offering each day.4 Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight,5 together with a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah[a] of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin[b] of oil from pressed olives.6 This is the regular burnt offering instituted at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to theLord.7 The accompanying drink ...
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