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Day 51: Israel's Worship of God (2023)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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What Are Votive Offerings?

Some Israelites were so moved by the Lord, they wanted to give more donations through a special votive offering. What we're seeing is that only a Levite could work in the temple. So if a person wanted to serve the temple, they want to serve the Lord, but they can't because they're not a Levite. If I'm 20 to 60 years old, the worth of my service would be 60 or 60 shekels. Is that what it was? Yeah, it was. The value of my work, we 50 shekels. If I's a female from 20 to 60 year old, thevalue of my work would be 30 sheKles. And

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