GOD in the Old Testament - Numbers - Part 3

Numbers 23:3-10  

    Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you." Then he went off to a barren height. 

    God met with him, and Balaam said, "I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram."

    The LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, "Go back to Balaam and give him this word."

    So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials. Then Balaam spoke this message:

    "Balak brought me from Aram,

        the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.

    'Come,' he said, 'curse Jacob for me;

        come, denounce Israel.'

    How can I curse

        those whom God has not cursed?

    How can I denounce

        those whom the LORD has not denounced?

    From the rocky peaks I see them, 

        from the heights I view them.

    I see a people who live apart

        and do not consider themselves one of the nations.

    Who can count the dust of Jacob

        or number even a fourth of Israel?

    Let me die the death of the righteous,

        and may my final end be like theirs!"

 

Numbers 23:18-23  

    Then he spoke this message:

    "Arise, Barak, and listen;

        hear me, son of Zippor.

    God is not human, that he should lie,

        not a human being, that he should change his mind.

    Does he speak and then not act?

        Does he promise and not fulfill?

    I have received a command to bless;

        he has blessed, and I cannot change it.

 

    "No misfortune is seen in Jacob.

        no misery observed in Israel.

    The LORD their God is with them;

        the shout of the King is among them.

    God brought them out of Egypt;

        they have the strength of a wild ox.

    There is no divination against Jacob,

        no evil omens against Israel.

    It will now be said of Jacob

        and of Israel, 'See what God has done!' "

 

Numbers 23:27  

    Then Barak said to Balaam, "Come, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there."

(see all Numbers 23) 

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Numbers - Part 2

Numbers 15:37-41  

    The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel. You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes. Then you will remember to obey all my commands and will be consecrated to your God. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God.' "

(see all Numbers 15)

 

Numbers 21:4-5  

    They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!" 

(see all Numbers 21)

 

Numbers 22:9-12  

    God came to Balaam and asked, "Who are these men with you?"

    Balaam said to God, "Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent me a message: 'A people that has come out of Egypt covers the face of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. Perhaps then I will be able to fight them and drive them away.' "

    But God said to Balaam, "Do not go with them. You must not put a curse on those people, because they are blessed." 

 

Numbers 22:18  

    But Balaam answered them, "Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the LORD my God."

 

Numbers 22:20  

    That night God came to Balaam and said, "Since these men have come to summon you, go with them, but do only what I tell you."

 

Numbers 22:22  

    But God was very angry when he went, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

 

Numbers 22:38  

    "Well, I have come to you now," Balaam replied. "But I can't say whatever I please. I must speak only what God puts in my mouth." 

(see all Numbers 22) 

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Numbers - Part 1

Numbers 6:5-8

" 'During the entire period of their Nazarite vow, no razor may be used on their head. They must be holy until the period of their dedication to the LORD is over; they must let their hair grow long.

    " 'Throughout the period of their dedication to the LORD, the Nazarite must not go near a dead body. Even if their own father or mother of brother or sister died, they must not make themselves ceremonially unclean on account of them, because the symbol of their dedication to God is on their head. Throughout the period of their dedication, they are consecrated to the LORD.' " 

(see all Numbers 6)

 

Numbers 10:8-10  

    "The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to blow the trumpets. This is to be a lasting ordinance for you and the generations to come. When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by the LORD your God and rescued from your enemies. Also at your times of rejoicing--your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts--you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the LORD your God."

(see all Numbers 10)

 

Numbers 12:9-16  

    The anger of the LORD burned against them, and he left them.

    When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam's skin was leprous--it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease, and he said to Moses, "Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother's womb with its flesh half eaten away."

    So Moses cried out to the LORD, "Please God, heal her!"

    The LORD replied to Moses, "If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back." So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back.

    After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.

(see all Numbers 12) 

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Leviticus - Part 5

Leviticus 25:15-17 

" 'You are to buy (land) from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops. When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops. Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 25:36-38

" 'Do not take interest or any profit from them (your fellow Israelites), but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you. You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.' " 

 

Leviticus 25:54-55  

    " 'Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee, for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.' "

(see all Leviticus 25, the Year of Jubilee)

 

Leviticus 26:1  

    " 'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 26:12-13  

" 'I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.' "

 

Leviticus 26:44-45  

" 'Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the LORD their God. But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the LORD.' "

(see all Leviticus 26 and 27)

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Leviticus - Part 4

Leviticus 22:24-25

" 'You must not offer to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut. You must not do this in your own land, and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.' "

 

Leviticus 22:31-33  

    "Keep my commands and follow them. I am the LORD. Do not profane my holy name, for I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites. I am the LORD, who made you holy and who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD."

(see all Leviticus 22)

 

Leviticus 23:14  

" 'You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.' "  (see verses 9-14) 

 

Leviticus 23:22  

    " 'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the LORD your God.' "  (see verses 15-22)

 

Leviticus 23:28  

"Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God."

 

Leviticus 23:40-43  

" 'On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees--from palms, willows and other leafy trees--and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. Celebrate this as a festival to the LORD for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. Live in temporary shelters for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.' "

(see all Leviticus 23) 

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Leviticus - Part 3

Leviticus 20:7  

    " 'Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 20:22-24  

    " 'Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. But I said to you, "You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the nations.' "

(see all Leviticus 20)

 

Leviticus 21:5-8  

    " 'Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies. They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the food offerings to the LORD, the food of their God, they are to be holy. 

    " 'They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God. Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the LORD am holy--I who make you holy.' "

 

Leviticus 21:10-12  

    " 'The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt or tear his clothes. He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother, nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD.' "

 

Leviticus 21:16-17  

    The LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron: 'For generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.' " 

 

Leviticus 21:21-22  

" 'No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the LORD. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God. He may eat the holy food of his God, as well as the holy food; ...' "

(see all Leviticus 21) 

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Leviticus - Part 2

Leviticus 19:1-4  

    The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

    " 'Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

    " 'Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 19:9-10  

    " 'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 19:12  

    " 'Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.' " 

 

Leviticus 19:14  

    " 'Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the LORD.' " 

 

Leviticus 19:23-25  

    " 'When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden. For three years you are to consider it forbidden; it must not be eaten. In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD. But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 19:31-32  

    " 'Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. 

    " 'Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the LORD.' " 

 

Leviticus 19:34  

" 'The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 19:36  

" 'Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt.' "

(see all Leviticus 19) 

 

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