Numbers 1:1-16 & Luke 24:36-46 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 1:1-16
THE FIRST CENSUS OF ISRAEL

1    A year after Israel’s departure from Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the Tabernacle in the wilderness of Sinai. On the first day of the second month of that year he said, 

2    “From the whole community of Israel, record the names of all the warriors by their clans and families. List all the men 

3    twenty years old or older who are able to go to war. You and Aaron must register the troops, 

4    and you will be assisted by one family leader from each tribe.

5    “These are the tribes and the names of the leaders who will assist you:

Tribe	Leader
Reuben	Elizur son of Shedeur
6    Simeon	Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai
7    Judah	Nahshon son of Amminadab
8    Issachar	Nethanel son of Zuar
9    Zebulun	Eliab son of Helon
10  Ephraim son of Joseph	Elishama son of Ammihud
Manasseh son of Joseph	Gamaliel son of Pedahzur
11  Benjamin	Abidan son of Gideoni
12  Dan	Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai
13  Asher	Pagiel son of Ocran
14  Gad	Eliasaph son of Deuel
15  Naphtali	Ahira son of Enan

16  These are the chosen leaders of the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.”

(TO BE CONTINUED)

LUKE 24:36-46

JESUS APPEARS TO HIS DISCIPLES

36  And just as they were telling about it, Jesus himself was suddenly standing there among them. “Peace be with you,” he said. 

37  But the whole group was startled and frightened, thinking they were seeing a ghost!

38  “Why are you frightened?” he asked. “Why are your hearts filled with doubt? 

39  Look at my hands. Look at my feet. You can see that it’s really me. Touch me and make sure that I am not a ghost, because ghosts don’t have bodies, as you see that I do.” 

40  As he spoke, he showed them his hands and his feet.

41  Still they stood there in disbelief, filled with joy and wonder. Then he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 

42  They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 

43  and he ate it as they watched.

44  Then he said, “When I was with you before, I told you that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must be fulfilled.” 

45  Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. 

46  And he said, “Yes, it was written long ago that the Messiah would suffer and die and rise from the dead on the third day.

Leviticus 27:25-34 & Luke 24:15-35 (New Living Translation)

LEVITICUS 27:25-34
LAWS CONCERNING GIFTS TO THE LORD
25  (All the payments must be measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs.)
26  “You may not dedicate a firstborn animal to the Lord, for the firstborn of your cattle, sheep, and goats already belong to him.
27  However, you may buy back the firstborn of a ceremonially unclean animal by paying the priest’s assessment of its worth, plus 20 percent. If you do not buy it back, the priest will sell it at its assessed value.
28  “However, anything specially set apart for the Lord—whether a person, an animal, or family property—must never be sold or bought back. Anything devoted in this way has been set apart as holy, and it belongs to the Lord.
29  No person specially set apart for destruction may be bought back. Such a person must be put to death.
30  “One-tenth of the produce of the land, whether grain from the fields or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord and must be set apart to him as holy.
31  If you want to buy back the Lord’s tenth of the grain or fruit, you must pay its value, plus 20 percent.
32  Count off every tenth animal from your herds and flocks and set them apart for the Lord as holy.
33  You may not pick and choose between good and bad animals, and you may not substitute one for another. But if you do exchange one animal for another, then both the original animal and its substitute will be considered holy and cannot be bought back.”
34  These are the commands that the Lord gave through Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.

LUKE 24:13-35
THE WALK TO EMMAUS

13  That same day two of Jesus’ followers were walking to the village of Emmaus, seven miles from Jerusalem. 

14  As they walked along they were talking about everything that had happened. 

15  As they talked and discussed these things, Jesus himself suddenly came and began walking with them.

16  But God kept them from recognizing him.

17  He asked them, “What are you discussing so intently as you walk along?”  They stopped short, sadness written across their faces. 

18  Then one of them, Cleopas, replied, “You must be the only person in Jerusalem who hasn’t heard about all the things that have happened there the last few days.”

19  “What things?” Jesus asked.  “The things that happened to Jesus, the man from Nazareth,” they said. “He was a prophet who did powerful miracles, and he was a mighty teacher in the eyes of God and all the people. 

20  But our leading priests and other religious leaders handed him over to be condemned to death, and they crucified him. 

21  We had hoped he was the Messiah who had come to rescue Israel. This all happened three days ago.

22  “Then some women from our group of his followers were at his tomb early this morning, and they came back with an amazing report. 

23  They said his body was missing, and they had seen angels who told them Jesus is alive! 

24  Some of our men ran out to see, and sure enough, his body was gone, just as the women had said.”

25  Then Jesus said to them, “You foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures. 

26  Wasn’t it clearly predicted that the Messiah would have to suffer all these things before entering his glory?” 

27  Then Jesus took them through the writings of Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

28  By this time they were nearing Emmaus and the end of their journey. Jesus acted as if he were going on,

29  but they begged him, “Stay the night with us, since it is getting late.” So he went home with them. 

30  As they sat down to eat, he took the bread and blessed it. Then he broke it and gave it to them.

31  Suddenly, their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And at that moment he disappeared!

32  They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us as he talked with us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?” 

33  And within the hour they were on their way back to Jerusalem. There they found the eleven disciples and the others who had gathered with them, 

34  who said, “The Lord has really risen! He appeared to Peter.”

35  Then the two from Emmaus told their story of how Jesus had appeared to them as they were walking along the road, and how they had recognized him as he was breaking the bread.

Leviticus 27:14-24 & Luke 24:1-12 (New Living Translation)

LEVITICUS 27:14-24
LAWS CONCERNING GIFTS TO THE LORD
14  “If someone dedicates a house to the Lord, the priest will come to assess its value. The priest’s assessment will be final, whether high or low.
15  If the person who dedicated the house wants to buy it back, he must pay the value set by the priest, plus 20 percent. Then the house will again be his.
16  “If someone dedicates to the Lord a piece of his family property, its value will be assessed according to the amount of seed required to plant it—fifty shekels of silver for a field planted with five bushels of barley seed.
17  If the field is dedicated to the Lord in the Year of Jubilee, then the entire assessment will apply.
18  But if the field is dedicated after the Year of Jubilee, the priest will assess the land’s value in proportion to the number of years left until the next Year of Jubilee. Its assessed value is reduced each year.
19  If the person who dedicated the field wants to buy it back, he must pay the value set by the priest, plus 20 percent. Then the field will again be legally his.
20  But if he does not want to buy it back, and it is sold to someone else, the field can no longer be bought back.
21  When the field is released in the Year of Jubilee, it will be holy, a field specially set apart for the Lord. It will become the property of the priests.
22  “If someone dedicates to the Lord a field he has purchased but which is not part of his family property,
23  the priest will assess its value based on the number of years left until the next Year of Jubilee. On that day he must give the assessed value of the land as a sacred donation to the Lord.
24  In the Year of Jubilee the field must be returned to the person from whom he purchased it, the one who inherited it as family property.

LUKE 24:1-12
THE RESURRECTION

1    But very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. 

2    They found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. 

3    So they went in, but they didn’t find the body of the Lord Jesus. 

4    As they stood there puzzled, two men suddenly appeared to them, clothed in dazzling robes.

5    The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to the ground. Then the men asked, “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? 

6    He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee, 

7    that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day.”

8    Then they remembered that he had said this. 

9    So they rushed back from the tomb to tell his eleven disciples—and everyone else—what had happened. 

10  It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and several other women who told the apostles what had happened. 

11  But the story sounded like nonsense to the men, so they didn’t believe it. 

12  However, Peter jumped up and ran to the tomb to look. Stooping, he peered in and saw the empty linen wrappings; then he went home again, wondering what had happened.