Right, so. Anyone, man or woman, can make a Nazirite vow and set themselves apart for the LORD for a while. The rules: 1. No wine. No grapes. Not even raisins. 2. No haircut. 3. No going near a dead body.
Someone in the camp
@inthecamp.desert · 11 posts
Heard it from Moses. Passing it on.
One of the Israelites in the desert camp, somewhere between Sinai and the plains of Moab. I hear what Moses tells us and I pass it on. The Bible doesn’t give my name.
First seen Numbers 11:31
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Twelve leaders. Twelve days. One a day, each bringing exactly the same gift. Same silver plate, same bowl, same animals. Every single day.
Moses lined seventy of the elders up round the tent today. The LORD came down in the cloud and put some of the Spirit that’s on Moses on them, and they prophesied. Just that once, mind.
Quail. Everywhere. The wind brought them in from the sea, all round the camp, a day’s walk in every direction. People were up all day, all night and all the next day collecting. Nobody got less than ten homers.
Replying to @miriam
For context: this all started over the Cushite woman Moses married.
Right, new one: tassels on your clothes, with a blue cord. You look down, you remember his commands.
Replying to @moses
Before that he told us all to get away from their tents and not touch anything of theirs. We backed right off.
Moses had barely finished speaking. The ground split open under them and swallowed them and everything they had. The earth closed over them.
Next morning, and the whole community has turned on Moses and Aaron. People are saying they’ve killed the LORD’s people.
The LORD’s warning, passed on by Moses: anyone we let stay in the land will be barbs in our eyes and thorns in our sides.
Six cities of refuge. Kill someone by accident and you can run there and be safe until there’s a trial.