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Translation: ESV

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"Command the people of Israel and say to them, 'My offering, my food for my food offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.'"

Key Message

Regular and consistent worship is the rhythm that maintains a relationship with God; God wants his people to come before him regularly.

▸Chapters 28-29 address the schedule of regular offerings Israel must bring.

Chapters 28-29 address the schedule of regular offerings Israel must bring. The expression 'my offering' emphasizes that sacrifice belongs to God. God wants to receive what is his in his way and at his time. The regularity of worship is the way of maintaining one's relationship with God in a daily and continuous manner.

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And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the LORD: two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular burnt offering.

Key Message

Daily worship is an act of confessing that our whole life is consecrated to God; worship must take place in daily life, not only on special days.

▸The daily burnt offering (tamid) is offered twice, morning and evening, marking the beginning and end of each day as worship offered to God.

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"On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work,"

Key Message

The Feast of Weeks, on which firstfruits are offered to God, embodies the principle of offering our firstfruits and our first things to God, and in the New Testament it foreshadows the descent of the Holy Spirit.

▸This is the regulation for the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost).