learning consideration

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Jefferson Vann

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learning consideration

devotions from Jefferson Vann # 2366

Numbers 35:1-8

Num 35:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, and this is what he said,
Num 35:2 “Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance they possess as cities for them to stay in. And you will give to the Levites pasture-lands around the cities.
Num 35:3 The cities will be theirs to stay in, and their pasture-lands will be for their herds and for their flocks+- and for all their animals.
Num 35:4 The pasture-lands of the cities, which you will give to the Levites, will reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around.
Num 35:5 And you will measure, outside the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This will belong to them as pasture-land for their cities.
Num 35:6 “The cities that you give to the Levites will be the six cities of refuge, where you will permit the person who unintentionally kills someone to run away, and in addition to them you will give forty-two cities.
Num 35:7 All the cities that you give to the Levites will be forty-eight, with their pasture-lands.
Num 35:8 And as for the cities that you will give from the possession of the people of Israel, from the larger tribes you will take many, and from the smaller tribes you will take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance that it inherits, will give of its cities to the Levites.”

learning consideration

The LORD built consideration into his economy. The tribes were to be considerate of the Levites, who owned no land as an inheritance, and they were to be considerate of the person who unintentionally kills someone, by providing cities of refuge for them to seek asylum in.

Not everyone is going to be able to make it in this world without some help from us. If we wonder what God wants us to do for the homeless and poor and refugees, we can take a clue from passages like this. God wants us to be considerate of them.

LORD, show us how to help those who need our help.

 

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a God who acts for his people

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Jefferson Vann

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a God who acts for his people

devotions from Jefferson Vann #

Numbers 34:16-29

Num 34:16 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Num 34:17 “These are the names of the men who will divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.
Num 34:18 You will take one leader from every tribe to divide the land for inheritance.
Num 34:19 These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Num 34:20 Of the tribe of the people of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
Num 34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
Num 34:22 Of the tribe of the people of Dan a leader, Bukki the son of Jogli.
Num 34:23 Of the people of Joseph: of the tribe of the people of Manasseh a leader, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
Num 34:24 And of the tribe of the people of Ephraim a leader, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
Num 34:25 Of the tribe of the people of Zebulun a leader, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
Num 34:26 Of the tribe of the people of Issachar a leader, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
Num 34:27 And of the tribe of the people of Asher a leader, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
Num 34:28 Of the tribe of the people of Naphtali a leader, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
Num 34:29 These are the men whom Yahveh commanded to divide the inheritance for the people of Israel in the land of Canaan.”

a God who acts for his people

Just look at the names listed here which contain the word El (God) in them. These are a testimony of faith in a God who acts for his people.

God has helped
God has heard
God has loved
God has shown grace
God has risen
God is my protection
God is my deliverance
God redeems

LORD, may we never lose sight of who you are, and what you can do for us.

 

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border words

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Jefferson Vann

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border words

devotions from Jefferson Vann # 2364

Numbers 34:1-15

Num 34:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said
Num 34:2 “Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that will fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders),
Num 34:3 your south side will be from the desert of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea on the east.
Num 34:4 And your border will turn south of the ascent of Scorpions, and cross to Zin, and its limit will be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it will go on to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon.
Num 34:5 And the border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its limit will be at the sea.
Num 34:6 “For the western border, you will have the Great Sea and its coast. This will be your western border.
Num 34:7 “This will be your northern border: from the Great Sea you will draw a line to Mount Hor.
Num 34:8 From Mount Hor you will draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border will be at Zedad.
Num 34:9 Then the border will extend to Ziphron, and its limit will be at Hazar-enan. This will be your northern border.
Num 34:10 “You will draw a line for your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham.
Num 34:11 And the border will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border will go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east.
Num 34:12 And the border will go down to the Jordan, and its limit will be at the Salt Sea. This will be your land as defined by its borders all around.”
Num 34:13 Moses commanded the people of Israel, and this is what he said, “This is the land that you will inherit by lot, which Yahveh has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.
Num 34:14 Because the tribe of the people of Reuben by fathers’ houses and the tribe of the people of Gad by their fathers’ houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Num 34:15 The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

border words

Borders specify limits to the inheritance. Even the children of Israel did not get carte blanche, free reign over everything they might want. No, God’s grace is defined for them in terms they could understand.

In the same way, the New Testament speaks of God’s grace giving us everything we need, but defines that inheritance by border words: “His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness” (2 Peter 1:3).

But consider what a great inheritance that is! Life, today and tomorrow, and godliness that makes that life worthwhile.

LORD, thank you for the immense inheritance we have in Christ.

 

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leaving room for the enemy

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Jefferson Vann

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leaving room for the enemy

devotions from Jefferson Vann # 2363

Numbers 33:5–56

Num 33:50 And Yahveh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, and this is what he said,
Num 33:51 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Num 33:52 then you will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from in the sight of you and destroy all their sculptured images and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.
Num 33:53 And you will take possession of the land and settle in it, because I have given the land to you to possess it.
Num 33:54 You will inherit the land by lot according to your clans. To a large tribe you will give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you will give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that will be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you will inherit.
Num 33:55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from in the sight of you, then those of them whom you let remain will be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land where you stay.
Num 33:56 And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.”

leaving room for the enemy

If the Israelites refuse to remove the present inhabitants from the land promised to them by God, two things would result. First, those left in the land would become a continual source of trouble to the new inhabitants. They will be a painful irritant, like barbs in the eyes, or thorns in the sides. Secondly, since the land was not cleared of those idolaters, the LORD would be forced to visit the land with his wrath, and that would also affect the Israelites.

Our lesson for today is that we need to make a clean break from sin, and not ally ourselves with those who tolerate or promote sin. If we leave room for the enemy, God has to treat us as the enemy.

LORD, wash us whiter than snow. Remove from us both the sin of our past, and the weakness of tolerating it in our society.

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history recommenced

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Jefferson Vann

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history recommenced

devotions from Jefferson Vann # 2362

Numbers 33:16-49

Num 33:16 And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
Num 33:17 And they set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
Num 33:18 And they set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
Num 33:19 And they set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.
Num 33:20 And they set out from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.
Num 33:21 And they set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
Num 33:22 And they set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
Num 33:23 And they set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
Num 33:24 And they set out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
Num 33:25 And they set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
Num 33:26 And they set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
Num 33:27 And they set out from Tahath and camped at Terah.
Num 33:28 And they set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.
Num 33:29 And they set out from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.
Num 33:30 And they set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
Num 33:31 And they set out from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan.
Num 33:32 And they set out from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.
Num 33:33 And they set out from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
Num 33:34 And they set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.
Num 33:35 And they set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.
Num 33:36 And they set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh).
Num 33:37 And they set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
Num 33:38 And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of Yahveh and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.
Num 33:39 And Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.
Num 33:40 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.
Num 33:41 And they set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
Num 33:42 And they set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
Num 33:43 And they set out from Punon and camped at Oboth.
Num 33:44 And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the territory of Moab.
Num 33:45 And they set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.
Num 33:46 And they set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.
Num 33:47 And they set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, in the sight of Nebo.
Num 33:48 And they set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho;
Num 33:49 they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

history recommenced

Pett comments on verse 40: “At this same time had come the Canaanite king of Arad who, living in ‘the South’ (the Canaanite part of the Negeb, compare Genesis 12:9), had ‘heard of the coming of the children of Israel’ and hoped to drive them away (Numbers 21:1-3). There is, in the way that this is put, the indication that the arrival of Israel was news which put fear in the hearts of the Canaanites (compare Numbers 14:14; Deuteronomy 2:25; Exodus 15:14-16). Thus the writer deliberately once more puts us in touch with the history described earlier, which he has deliberately neglected in the middle section. History has, as it were recommenced. ”

Sometimes we have to stop what we are doing long enough to remember that God’s plan is working itself out in our lives. No matter what we face, his will and his purpose will prevail.

LORD, we again surrender today to your purpose, because it will prevail.

 

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against their gods

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Jefferson Vann

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against their gods

devotions from Jefferson Vann # 2361

Numbers 33:1-15

Num 33:1 These are the phases of the people of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies, being guided by Moses and Aaron.
Num 33:2 Moses wrote down their starting places, phase by phase, by command of Yahveh, and these are their phases according to their starting places.
Num 33:3 They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,
Num 33:4 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahveh had struck down among them. Yahveh also executed judgments against their gods .
Num 33:5 So the people of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.
Num 33:6 And they set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the desert.
Num 33:7 And they set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they camped in the sight of Migdol.
Num 33:8 And they set out from where Hahiroth could be seen and passed through the midst of the sea into the desert, and they went a three days’ journey in the desert of Etham and camped at Marah.
Num 33:9 And they set out from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
Num 33:10 And they set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
Num 33:11 And they set out from the Red Sea and camped in the desert of Sin.
Num 33:12 And they set out from the desert of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
Num 33:13 And they set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Num 33:14 And they set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
Num 33:15 And they set out from Rephidim and camped in the desert of Sinai.

against their gods

Moses got out his travel record and reviewed all the phases that the Israelites went through. These verses record the travel from Egypt to Sinai, where the ten commandments were given. Moses notes particularly that the deliverance in Egypt was not just to free the Israelites, but it was also a series of judgments against the Egyptian gods.

Many times in our lives we are going to go through experiences that we cannot account for. It will be helpful for us to remember during those times that God is at work, but his work involves more than we see.

LORD, teach us to trust you, even when we cannot understand what you are doing.

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changing the names

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Jefferson Vann

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changing the names

devotions from Jefferson Vann #2360

Numbers 32:20-42

Num 32:20 So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go in the sight of Yahveh for the war,
Num 32:21 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan in the sight of Yahveh, until he has driven out his enemies from in the sight of him
Num 32:22 and the land is subdued in the sight of Yahveh; then after that you will return and be free of obligation to Yahveh and to Israel, and this land will be your possession in the sight of Yahveh.
Num 32:23 But if you will not do so, notice, you have sinned against Yahveh, and be sure your mistake will find you out.
Num 32:24 Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised.”
Num 32:25 And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben said to Moses, “Your servants will do as my Yahveh commands.
Num 32:26 Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals will remain there in the cities of Gilead,
Num 32:27 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, in the sight of Yahveh to battle, as my lord orders.”
Num 32:28 So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel.
Num 32:29 And Moses said to them, “If the people of Gad and the people of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle in the sight of Yahveh, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land will be subdued in the sight of you, then you will give them the land of Gilead for a possession.
Num 32:30 However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they will have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”
Num 32:31 And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben answered, “What Yahveh has said to your servants, we will do.
Num 32:32 We will pass over armed in the sight of Yahveh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance will remain with us beyond the Jordan.”
Num 32:33 And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.
Num 32:34 And the people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
Num 32:35 Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
Num 32:36 Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
Num 32:37 And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
Num 32:38 Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names were changed), and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built.
Num 32:39 And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
Num 32:40 And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he settled in it.
Num 32:41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.
Num 32:42 And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

changing the names

Matthew Henry comments:

“They changed the names of them (v. 38), either to show their authority, that the change of the names might signify the change of their owners, or because their names were idolatrous, and carried in them a respect to the dunghill-deities that were there worshipped. Nebo and Baal were names of their gods, which they were forbidden to make mention of (Ex. 23:13 ), and which, by changing the names of these cities, they endeavoured to bury in oblivion; and God promises to take away the names of Baalim out of the mouths of his people, Hos. 2:17 ”

We should be careful of the reputation of the things that we call our own. If our community has a reputation of being sinful or corrupt, we should do everything we can to change that reputation, because if we inhabit a land, our God’s reputation is at stake.

LORD, give us the wisdom to change the reputation of the communities we inhabit.

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our brothers’ brothers

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Jefferson Vann

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our brothers’ brothers

devotions from Jefferson Vann # 2359

Numbers 32:1-19

Num 32:1 At that time, the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very significant number of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and notice, the place was a place for livestock.
Num 32:2 So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the congregation,
Num 32:3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
Num 32:4 the land that Yahveh struck down in the sight of the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”
Num 32:5 And they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us across the Jordan.”
Num 32:6 But Moses said to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben, “will your brothers go to the war while you sit here?
Num 32:7 Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that Yahveh has given them?
Num 32:8 Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Num 32:9 Because when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that Yahveh had given them.
Num 32:10 And Yahveh’s anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, and this is what he said,
Num 32:11 ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,
Num 32:12 none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have wholly followed Yahveh.’
Num 32:13 And Yahveh’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of Yahveh was gone.
Num 32:14 And notice, you have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of Yahveh against Israel!
Num 32:15 Because if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”
Num 32:16 Then they came near to him and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,
Num 32:17 but we will take up arms, ready to go in the sight of the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones will live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
Num 32:18 We will not return to our homes until each of the people of Israel has gained his inheritance.
Num 32:19 Because we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east.”

our brothers’ brothers

The transjordon tribes are an example for us, because many Christians will not face certain challenges by virtue of where they live and their station in life. But that does not mean that those Christians so blessed should be indifferent to the plight of their brothers and sisters. No, we are our brothers’ brothers. If they need to fight to overcome the obstacles, then we should be fighting with them.

LORD, show us how to care for our brothers who face challenges that we do not.

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staying on his good side

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Jefferson Vann

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staying on his good side

devotions from Jefferson Vann # 2358

Numbers 31:48-54

Num 31:48 Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, came near to Moses
Num 31:49 and said to Moses, “Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us.
Num 31:50 And we have brought Yahveh’s offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to provide reconciliation for our souls in the sight of Yahveh.”
Num 31:51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them the gold, all crafted articles.
Num 31:52 And all the gold of the contribution that they presented to Yahveh, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.
Num 31:53 (The men in the army had each taken plunder for himself.)
Num 31:54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the conference tent, as a memorial for the people of Israel in the sight of Yahveh.

staying on his good side

Calvin comments on verse 54: “When it is said, “for a memorial for the children of Israel,” it may be taken either actively or passively; viz., either that the gift may be a monument of their gratitude, or that it might conciliate favor for the people in the eyes of God; as if that offering of expiation brought before God, and represented, all those who thus professed themselves to be preserved by His grace. I prefer the latter sense myself, i.e., that this memorial was set before His eyes, in order that God might hereafter also be favorable to His people.”

Whenever we give anything to the LORD’s work, we can consider it a reminder of all the things and relationships he has given us. We don’t get on God’s good side by doing so, but actively showing our appreciation is one part of staying on his good side.

LORD, make us aware of all your sustaining gifts, and appreciative always.

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a nation that turned away

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Jefferson Vann

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a nation that turned away

devotions from Jefferson Vann # 2357

Numbers 31:31-47

Num 31:31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahveh commanded Moses.
Num 31:32 Now the plunder remaining of the spoil that the army took was 675,000 sheep,
Num 31:33 72,000 animals,
Num 31:34 61,000 donkeys,
Num 31:35 and 32,000 souls in all, women who had not known man by lying with him.
Num 31:36 And the half, the portion of those who had gone out in the army, numbered 337,500 sheep,
Num 31:37 and Yahveh’s tribute of sheep was 675.
Num 31:38 The animals were 36,000, of which Yahveh’s tribute was 72.
Num 31:39 The donkeys were 30,500, of which Yahveh’s tribute was 61.
Num 31:40 The souls were 16,000, of which Yahveh’s tribute was 32 souls.
Num 31:41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the contribution for Yahveh, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahveh commanded Moses.
Num 31:42 From the people of Israel’s half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had served in the army–
Num 31:43 now the congregation’s half was 337,500 sheep,
Num 31:44 36,000 animals,
Num 31:45 and 30,500 donkeys,
Num 31:46 and 16,000 souls–
Num 31:47 from the people of Israel’s half Moses took one of every 50, both of humans and of animals, and gave them to the Levites who kept guard over the tabernacle of Yahveh, as Yahveh commanded Moses.

a nation that turned away

The Moab Midianite nation had “turned its public morals into a destructive immorality, because it (had) abandoned all reverence for a personal God and personal life, and sunk into the dark, magic sin, the sin of deifying the lust of the flesh, and into death, its fruit” (Lang). For this reason, the LORD commanded the Israelites to take them in war. It is a serious thing for an entire nation to desert God and morality.

LORD, we repent of our turning away from you. We want to turn back before it is too late.

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