Ok, so why is this recorded in the Bible? A good deal of this reading describes the various tribes' offerings. And it's pretty redundant since all of them, except the Levites, brought the exact same thing. Maybe it's not written for us. I'm sure in early Hebrew time it was interesting. Or maybe these scriptures will help prove something a thousand years from now just like there are scriptures today that we have a greater understanding of then they did in the day they were written. Like the verses that tell us the Earth hangs on nothing. They wouldn't have understood this. We do. Or maybe an archeologist will find something -- one of the silver sprinkling bowls weighing seventy shekels (according to the sanctuary shekel) and filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering -- and it will just be one more indicator among so many that the Bible is true. But without these verses that silver sprinkling bowl wouldn't have any significance.
Who knows? Well, God knows. And He knows why these verses are here.
Toward the end of today's reading, Moses hears God's voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim on the ark. God's appearance varies. He's in the pillar of smoke and the pillar of fire. He appears as a being to Abraham and Jacob. He's in the burning bush. He takes on so many visual identities. But Moses would have known him from His voice. He's the voice in scripture. Jesus is the word.
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