From Numbers 28-31:
1. What is the cost? - Wow! There were a whole lot of lambs to be sacrificed to God over the course of a year. If I have calculated correctly - based upon Numbers 28:3,9-10,11,19,27 & 29:2,8,13,17,20,23,26,29,32,36 - there are 1029 lambs per year that need to be sacrificed to the Lord. This is just the basic daily, weekly, monthly and festival requirements that God set. And that is just for lambs. God is great in love and abounding in mercy and grace, but you need to do your part too! Or to put it another way, God will protect you and richly bless you and give you success in whatever you do, but you need to give a certain amount to Him. (At least, that is what I take away from that. In the same way, the gift of salvation is freely given, but you must then live for Christ, not for yourself - that is a big price - although definitely worth it.)
2. It is interesting to see that if a guy makes a vow, he is to be held to it. However, if a woman makes a vow, her husband or father can nullify it.
3. I wonder what happened to the 32,000 women who had never slept with a man. Did they automatically become Israelites? Or was anyone who took one as a wife considered a Samaritan? And what did the 16 women do that were given to the Levites? They could not work around the tabernacle, I don't think, because they were not Levites.
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