(Through the Bible) Leviticus 25-27 — Chuck Smith

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Now as we get into chapter 25 They were to give the land a Sabbath days rest or a Sabbath year. They were to plant the land for six years the seventh year. They were to let the land rest. Really? I like these laws of God.

And you got a lot of seven-day holidays spread through the year and Then every seventh year you just kick back and take the year off. You don't even plant anything in the night you just let grow up whatever grows up and you eat that.

But God said if you will do this in the sixth year I Will cause your crops to be so bountiful That I'll give you a three years crop in the sixth year so that it'll carry you through clear and over until you are Harvesting from the eighth year.

If you'll just follow this God said I'll let you have the whole year off. You just eat what grows up wild. But in the sixth year you'll have a triple crop that'll carry you clear on over to the harvesting of the eighth year now.

I I would venture to declare to you That some What they call them agro ma agro monistice or Agrologist or something one of these guys have grown up in the field of agronomy Agronomist all right. Thank you someday an agronomist is going to come up with a Fascinating discovery that if you just let the let the ground lie in the seventh year That it has a tremendous Regenerative effect upon the land that has a way of Coming out in the sixth year that you just have a bumper crop.

I'm sure that it is a natural law that God has established and that if people would follow it They would find tremendous success. They could actually have a year's vacation Every seven years. Now this is the law that got we were talking about spiritual laws and we get to it.

God said now if you just walk in this this is what I'm going to do. You'll have plenty your vintage will last to the vintage season. I I'm sure that they'll discover that the ground would produce much better in the six years and That your overall crops and just growing for six years and letting the thing lie in the seventh year your overall crop would actually be Greater than growing at all seven years.

I'm certain that it is true but you see people say but I don't understand how that could work and And you get a bunch of you know egghead scientists to say. Oh, there's no way that could work you know and and and and They put it down, but I'm sure it would.

It's there. It's a part of the laws that God has established. Farmers could have it so easy or so much easier. I don't suppose the farmer ever has it easy. I don't think it's easy getting up that early in the morning, but they Could have it so much easier the seventh year just enjoy it you know now When the people came into the land They didn't follow this.

They were a bunch of smarties. Just like you are and so they figured ho ho well We'll really make it next year. You know look at the bumper crop. We have this year. Oh, let's plant it you know this next year will really go for it and They were constantly struggling with the land.

Plagued with drought. Overproducing the land so that it was weakening the soil processes or the weakening the soil. It's fertility. They disobeyed the laws of God. So after 490 years of being in the land God said all right, that's it.

Every seventh year the land was to have a rest you haven't given it any rest since you've come in. This poor land's been worked for 490 years it never did get it Sabbath. So I'm gonna set you over in Babylon for 70 years so that the land can get its Sabbaths and The land is going to get its rest, and it's going to rest for 70 years because you didn't give it its Sabbath.

Because in the 490 years they would have been 70 of these Sabbath year rest so God gave it the rest anyhow, but the people look at the benefit they missed of A vacation a year's vacation every seven years.

You know I like the programs of God. I Don't see anything wrong with this at all. I think it's pretty. I think God's pretty generous really with men. Seventh year should be a Sabbath rest. Thou shalt neither sow thy field nor prune your vineyard just stay out of it just rest.

That which grows of its own accord of your harvest thou shalt not reap. Just leave it there for the poor people for the servants let them come in and let them have it. You know it whatever grows on the great vines or whatever grows on your fruit trees.

Just let it be for the people to come and take it in the seventh year because God will give you enough a triple crop in the sixth year and Then there was to be a. They would count seven Sabbath years and then the next year the 50th year was a special thing.

So you got every 50 years you got two years vacation, and this was the year of Jubilee a year of real celebration. All debts were canceled. All mortgages were canceled all the slaves were set free a year of Jubilee every 50 years and that was Equivalent to the penny cost you count seven Sabbaths in the next day the 50th day was it was the penny cost and so they Did it with years you count seven?

Of the Sabbath year cycles and then the next year. The 50th year a special year of Jubilee we are close to a Jubilee year right now whether or not. It's it's it's this year or next year or 81 it's right in here close, and there are varied opinions as to when the Jubilee year Actually is taking place.

Some have marked it a few have marked at 79. Some have marked at 81 and many have marked at 80 and Who am I to mark a year, but? It'd be nice take a year off. You know after all if next year is going to be the Jubilee year this means.

This is the rest year anyhow, so go for it you know and But The year of Jubilee he now deals with the laws in Regarding to the year of Jubilee beginning with verse 8. Cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month.

That was a day that we've already studied. What was the tenth day of the seventh month? Yom Kippur good and Then ye shall howl the 50th year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land of the inhabitants thereof year of Jubilee.

Return every man unto his possession. And return every man unto his family a Jubilee in that 50th year be unto you. And ye shall not sow neither reap that which grows of itself. Nor gather the grapes of your vineyard undressed for it is the Jubilee it shall be holy unto you.

And ye shall eat of the increase thereof out of the field and in the year of Jubilee He shall return every man unto his possession, and if you sell aught to your neighbor he buys. Or you buy something from your neighbor's hand.

You shall not oppress one another according to the number of years after the Jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor. According to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee. In other words You never really bought the land you lease the land and the lease would go until the year of Jubilee.

So you always figured the price by the number of years until the year of Jubilee. In other words if the year of Jubilee was 40 years away You'd have to pay a pretty good piece of cash for the land. But if the year of Jubilee was maybe just three years away.

Then you always measured the price by the distance to the year of Jubilee because in the year of Jubilee the land always returned unto the original ownership and The same was true of the of the servants they were to go free the slaves would we go to go free in that year of Jubilee.

Land Ownership and the Kinsman Redeemer

The land shall not be sold forever verse 23 for the land is mine. In other words You're just God says the land is mine. You're not to sell it forever. It's my land for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

In other words You're my guest. God is saying this land is mine. You're my guest now. That's always an interesting thing to me when I go over to the land. I love it because I think wow Lord. This is your land, and I'm just journeying with you.

I'm a sojourner with you. Your land so I'm just so journeying through your land here, and I love to sojourn through the Lord's land of Israel it's a fascinating experience now if your brother is poor and he sold away some of his possessions and Then is next of kin can redeem it and shall redeem what his brother is sold so that stays with the family and the various laws of redemption are given to us here in the 25th chapter of Leviticus these are important laws for they pertain to us.

For we are redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ and This idea of Being set free in the seventh year or in the Jubilee year and If you if you purchased a slave who was a Jew He would serve you for six years the seventh year.

He was to be set free now. There is that interesting pattern of the six years of servitude the seventh year being the year of Liberty being set free and I see it really in the earth. I believe that Adam sold out The possession that God had given to him Just about 6 ,000 years ago how close to the 6 ,000 years nobody really knows awfully close now though.

Because we do know that Adam sold out to Satan if we if you take the figures of the Bible and add them all up Ages of each person and all you come to about 4 ,000 BC. That Adam Sinned against God and and gave the earth over to Satan.

Now we are in 1979 coming towards the close of it. So you've got a few years Divergency here that could be eaten up in several different ways. We are approaching certainly approaching and at least At the longest we are less than 20 years from 6 ,000 years of Slavery to sin to Satan His possession of this earth now, we know that there is a thousand-year period coming of restoration of a righteous reign of Jesus Christ a Peace and glory upon the earth and the fact that the six thousand years are almost over to me is extremely exciting because I am personally convinced That the seventh Millennium of the earth will be the glorious kingdom age and we can't be more than 20 years away now.

I'm excited about that and To me, there's nothing of doom and gloom but glory to God. The mess is over. Oh, I'm so excited. What an exciting time to be living close of this age the close of this millennium the close of this final Millennium prior to that glorious seventh millennium.

The millennial reign of Christ and he shall rule and reign for a thousand years Upon the earth. It's got a rule and reign forever. A thousand of it will be here upon the earth and We shall reign with him as Kings and priests.

Can you imagine that how close we are? Oh, it's exciting. I Love it. So this whole law of redemption through chapter 25 The redemption of the poor brother by the kinsmen Redeemer. What a picture of Christ.

The man is unable to redeem himself his next of kin can move in and redeem it for him now. Man could not redeem the world himself. So Christ became a man so he could be next of kin to man. So that he could redeem the earth back unto God.

Revelation 5 and the Worthy Redeemer

Necessary that he become a man to become our brother. That he might become our kinsmen Redeemer and that which man could not do. Jesus Christ has done in Revelation chapter 5 when we get into heaven and we're Beholding that glorious scene and we see the angel with a scroll the title deed of the earth with seven seals writing within without Standing there proclaiming who is worthy to take this scroll and to loose the seals.

Here is this whole thing of redemption. Adam forfeited the world over to Satan. It's his Possession. He said to Jesus it's mine. I can give it to whomever I will who is able to redeem now the earth. John began to sub sob convulsively because no man was found worthy To take the scroll and to loose the seals.

That's right. No man can do it. And as John was weeping the other said weep not. John behold the lion of the tribe of Judah hath prevailed to take the scroll and loose the seals and I beheld him as a lamb that had been slaughtered and he came and he took the scroll out of the right hand of him who sat upon the throne and As he did the elders in the cherubim came forth with the golden vials full of odors.

Which are the prayers of the Saints and they sang a new song saying worthy is the lamb to take the scroll and loose the seals. For he was slain and has redeemed us by his blood out of all the nations and tribes tongues and peoples and has made us Unto our God a kingdom of praise and we shall reign with him on the earth.

Oh How I long for that day when I'm standing there at the throne of God singing that glorious song of the redeemed and the worthiness of Jesus Christ. So this this law was put in here for your benefit that you might understand just exactly why?

Jesus became a man. Why it was necessary that he become a man in order that he might be a kinsman Redeemer and So there in chapter 25, you'll find it fascinating in that regards. You might want to look at it more carefully.

Leviticus 26 and the Conditions of Blessing

Chapter 26. Again, God establishes the fact that they are to worship him. They are not to have idols or graven images or standing images. Set up any image of stone in the land to bow down to it for I am the Lord your God.

You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord now God says if You will walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and do them walk keep do. Some of the commandments of God involve our walk some of them command our actions and some of them are just sort of negatives the things that we are to keep and to keep from.

So God Is now laying out if you will do this if you will obey if you'll walk if you'll keep this is what I'm gonna do. God lays out the conditions of blessings. I want to bless you. These are the rules or laws that I have given the laws of prosperity and all and if you will keep them This is what's going to happen to you.

I will give you rain in due season. The land shall yield her increase the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall reach to the vintage the vintage shall reach to the sowing time and you shall eat your bread to the full and Dwell in your land safely, so I'm gonna just bless you and prosper you in the land.

You're gonna have plenty of food. Plenty of crops the seed will last clear over to the sowing time and you'll eat bread till you're full. Not only that I Will give peace in the land and ye shall lie down and none shall make you afraid.

Not only that I will rid the evil beast out of the land neither shall the sword go through your land. So we'll give you peace in the land. Lying down not being afraid the sword not passing through the land and Ye shall chase your enemies.

I'll give you power and they shall fall before you by the sword and Five of you shall chase a hundred and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight. Remember the story of Gideon? 300 fellows routed the Midianites a hundred and thirty two thousand of them and Your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

For I will have respect unto you and make you fruitful and multiply you and establish my covenant with you. That verse refers to your children. You're going to have beautiful families grandchildren, you'll be fruitful and multiply and Again the promise of plenty ye shall eat the old store and bring forth the old because of the new.

In other words your crops will will last over and you'll you'll still be eating from last year's crops when you've already harvested this year's and I will set my tabernacle among you. So God's presence is promised.

My soul shall not abhor you I will walk among you and will be your God and ye shall be my people. What a beautiful National privilege is offered now to these people. The blessings of God abundantly peace in the land power for the people the posterity being blessed and beyond all this God's Presence dwelling there in the midst of the people God walking with them and dwelling with them what more could any people desire or want.

And the only condition is That now that you have my statutes walk in them. Now that you have my commandments just keep them and you'll have all of this. Now these things that God is promising the prosperity the peace the power.

These are the things for which men are seeking today. But Jesus pointed out the folly of seeking these things. He said after all of these things do the heathen seek but seek ye first. The kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you.

That's what God is saying here if you will just follow me if you'll just obey me if you'll just look to me. Then I'll do this for you. But you see we've got things so reversed in our minds and in our concepts that we are so busy seeking these things.

We don't have time to seek God. Well Lord, I'd really like to seek you but my I don't know how I'm gonna pay. You know for this new television unless I take this Sunday job. And you know all of these things that I'm seeking after that take me away from time with God whereas if I would just give God the first of my heart the first fruits of my life and just Worship him and follow him and obey him.

He would do all these things for me. You say well how I don't know Anymore than I don't know how Gravitation works. I Know it works. I don't know how I know that electricity works. I don't know how oh, but I don't want to Put my trust anything.

I don't understand How many ladies you're gonna drive home tonight. You understand the internal combustion engine. Oh, well, that's different. It always is isn't it? No God said I Am the Lord your God which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt that why did I bring you out?

I brought you out of the land is even Egypt. Why that ye should not be their bondmen and I have broken the bands of your yoke. And I've made you stand up straight. Now boy under the bondage. I mean these guys were bent over with loads that you can't believe.

And you know after years of carrying these heavy loads you get to where you just walk Humped over because that's just they would carry Hundreds of pounds upon their backs and you just get to where you just walk stooped over.

But God said look I set you free from that so you can stand up straight because I'm your Lord and I brought you out. That you would no longer be their bondmen. No longer be their servants. I want you now to be my servant says that it's servants of God.

The Easy Yoke of Christ

You can stand up straight. Jesus said take my yoke upon you my yoke is easy. My burden is light. There are people who would try to make you think that the burden of the Lord is a heavy onerous thing to bear and During the days of Jeremiah these prophets are so-called prophets would go around saying.

Oh the burden of the Lord the burden of the Lord. Like it was some heavy thing and So God said to Jeremiah said Jeremiah There's a phrase. I've heard so often. I'm so sick of it. I Never want to hear it again and Jeremiah if you use this phrase, I'm gonna refuse to talk to you from now on.

It's that rotten phrase the burden of the Lord. I Said I'm sick of it. Don't use it. Just delete that from your back vocabulary these guys all go around saying the burden of the Lord the burden of the Lord.

Jesus said my yoke is easy. My burden is light. Oh brother pray that I'll just be able to hold on, you know under this heavy load that God's laid on me. Who laid it on you? Hey, if your load is so heavy, you can't carry it.

I have to assume that you've taken on to yourself something that God never put on your brother. If you find it so hard that you can hardly make it. Then that isn't the Lord's yoke. His yoke is easy. If it's so heavy, you're really struggling under that isn't his burden.

His burden is light. But we often take upon ourselves things that God really wasn't putting on us and why do we take them on? Oh Because I would like the glory of man. So when they're taking pledges, oh, I'll be glad to brother.

Everybody see me. I'll be glad to you know, and so before men I make commitments and that's sad. Because then it gets so heavy. I think Oh serving the Lord such a heavy burden. No, no. Serving my flesh is a heavy burden, but serving the Lord is glorious.

His yoke is easy. His burden is light. Now if you find yourself straining on the burden then dump it it's not his anyhow and find the Lord's burden serving the Lord an exciting glorious Pleasurable thing.

I delight to do thy will O Lord. That's the way it should always be. Now the Lord said in verse 14 But if you will not hearken unto me and Will not do all these commandments and if you shall despise my statutes Or if your soul abhors my judgments So that you will not do all my commandments But break my covenant.

Covenant Curses and Israel’s Restoration

Then this is what I'm going to do for you. So the conditions keep the commandments. I'm gonna bless you break the commandments. I'm gonna break you for I Will appoint over you terror. Consumption the burning ache that shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart.

You will sow your seed in vain. Your enemy shall eat it. Remember when Sam Irwin Gideon was threshing the wheat. He was doing it in a cave to hide it from the Midianites because the Midianites would stand back and let these guys harvest Their fields bring it all in thresh it and then the Midianites would move in and and take it away from them.

That wasn't so dumb. I guess as far as the Midianites were concerned, but it's awfully hard when you're doing the work I will set my face against you and you shall be slain before your enemies and they that hate you shall reign over you and you shall flee when none is pursuing and If for all of this you will not hearken if you're still stubborn resistant you won't listen.

Then I'll punish you seven times more for your sins. I'll break the pride of your power now. I promised him earlier He'd give him power now He's gonna break the pride of their power and I will make your heaven as iron your earth is brass.

He was going to cause the land to bring forth abundantly. But now he's going to make the earth as hard as brass and Your strength shall be spent in vain for your land will not yield her increase and neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits and If you continue to walk contrary to me after this and you will not hearken to me Then I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins and I will also send wild beasts among you which will rob you of your children and Destroy your cattle and make you through a number and if you're still not reformed by me in these things And you still are walking contrary to me Then I will also walk contrary to you and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

I'll bring the sword upon you and you shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant and when you are gathered together within your cities I will send the pestilence among you and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies and When I have broken the staff of your bread ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and they shall deliver you your bread Again by weight and ye shall eat and not be satisfied.

You're going to experience actually Constant hunger and if for all of this you will still not hearken but walk contrary Then I will walk contrary to you also in fury and I will chastise you seven times for your sins.

You shall eat the flesh of your sons and daughters the flesh. And I will destroy your high places cut down your images. Cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols and my soul shall abhor you and I will make your cities waste and bring your Sanctuaries to desolation and I'll not smell the sweet savor of your sweet odors.

I'll not accept your sacrifices anymore. And I will bring the land into desolation by your enemies. And I will scatter you among the heathen and will draw out a sword after you and your land shall be Desolate and your cities waste now.

What is the story of the Bible in the Old Testament as we read the historic part? The story is just the fulfillment of what God said as Long as they sought the Lord God prospered them and God blessed them and they were strong and they dwelt in peace and they had plenty but when they forsook the Lord then God forsook them and All of these things that God said what happened did happen to them.

Even they're eating their own children during a time of the siege of Samaria by Ben Haddad. All of these things took place until Finally as God said they were dispersed into all the nations of the world.

So that God Literally fulfilled those things that he said he would do to them. He did and their land laid desolate for centuries the cities desolate for centuries. Now it is interesting to go through the land of Israel also because you'll see interesting looking mountains which aren't really mountains or hills which aren't really hills and the end they are tells and And they are the ruins of the city and it's hundreds of tells all over the land.

Sometime when I take one of these seven years off. I'd like to get a shovel and just go digging in some of those tells. Because of all the cities that have been just ruined and they're just lying there and they're covered now with dirt and and just totally desolate just like God said and then shall the land rest and enjoy her Sabbath and it surely has done that and As long as it lies desolate it will rest because you did not rest in your Sabbath when you dwelt upon it.

And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into your hearts and the land of your enemies and the sound of a shaking leaf will chase them and they shall flee as fleeing from the sword and They shall fall when none is pursuing.

It'll give them a fear in their hearts wherever they go. They'll be fearful people because of the persecutions that will arise and they shall fall one upon another and There will perish among the heathen.

And the land of your enemies shall eat you up and they that are left of you shall pine away and so forth. But then God declares if they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers with their trespass.

They have trespassed against me that also they may have they have walked contrary to me and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies if then their Uncircumcised hearts be humbled and then they accept of the punishment of their iniquity then will I remember my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham and I will Remember and I will remember the land and the land also shall be left to them and shall enjoy our Sabbaths and lie desolate but then Yet for all of that verse 44 when they be in the land of their enemies I will not cast them away.

Neither will I abhor them nor destroy them utterly to break my covenant with them for I am the Lord their God. In other words I will preserve them as an ethnic group which God has done. He kept his promise.

He kept his word. No other nation No other nation Has had that same fate. Every other nation who has been without a homeland has disappeared as an ethnic group. Not the Jew. He has remained a Jew to the present day.

God kept his word now these are the statutes and the judgments and the laws which the Lord made between Him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses and so God gave them the laws and then he gave them the conditions.

If you keep them, I'm gonna bless you break them and These are the things that are going to happen. So the things that have happened are just things that God said would happen and You can't really blame God because they did happen because God said they would and if you'd only listen to God you would have known it.

Vows and Things Dedicated to God

Now the Lord spake unto Moses saying speak to the children of Israel and say unto them when a man makes a singular vow The person shall be for the Lord by thy estimation. Now if you if you make a vow unto God and say God I'm gonna give you my life wonderful.

Now I want to take my life back Lord I've decided not to give you my life. Well, hey, he won't play Indian give your with you. You want to take yourself back now? You don't want to give your life to God.

Okay. Drop 50 shekels of silver into the pot, you know, you had to buy yourself back from the Lord. You made a vow you made a commitment God. I'm giving my life to you now. I'm gonna take my life back.

Okay, you can buy your life back from God for 50 shekels or six. What is it? 50 60 circles of silver? 50 shekels of silver that's if you're mad if you're a girl you get better off. You're only valued at 30 shekels of silver.

Now the main idea is be careful what you promise God. You know the Bible says when you when you when you come into the presence of God, don't be swift to speak. You know ready weigh your words. The psalmist prayed Lord.

Don't let me sin with my lips. And I think of how many times we actually sin with our lips when we're making promises and vows to God. Now The Bible says it's better not to make a vow at all. God doesn't require you to make vows.

So it's better that you don't make any vow at all then to make a vow to God and break it. Because God takes you serious. Now what if we tried to treat each other in our transactions like we treat God?

Well friend, I'd like you to get. I'd like to give you my car here. Let me sign over the pink slip. Oh Praise the Lord. That's wonderful. I need a car and Then I come back the next day and say I've decided I don't want to give you the car.

I want it back. Oh, man, I've already put new tires on. Well, I want it back my car, you know, we do that with God so often. Oh, he does God. I want to give you this. Lord won't take it back. And the Lord takes you serious.

He doesn't play those kind of games with you. All right, you want it back? Put in the kitty what it's worth and that's what the whole chapter is about. Anything that you vowed to God anything that you promised to God if you wanted to take it back.

Then God charged you you'd have to come in in and give the estimate for it. And you'd have to pay the estimated value of that thing. You just don't get it back from God. He doesn't just give back to you.

You have to buy back what you've given to God. You want it for yourself? So it starts out with people promising their lives. Oh God. My life is yours. I give my life to you. Fine, I'll take it. Oh God, I want my life back.

All right, 50 shekels. Oh God, I give you my lamb. This little lamb. Lord is your little lamb fine. I'll take it. Oh Lord, it's growing up to look so nice and all I could pray. Okay, buy it back from me.

Say but then if you bought the lamb back, not only did you have to pay the estimated price? But you had to add 20 God wanted interest on his money. Yeah, it's not so easy the bank hasn't really. You know gotten quite as bad as heavy as God as far as interest rates.

God always said add a fifth part there, too and. So here in the 27th chapter the things that have been dedicated to God. Those things God accept them. They belong to God. God considered ownership of them.

Now if you're trying to renege take it back. God allow you do it. But you had to pay for it and then in the matter of things you had to add a 20 surtax on it unto the Lord. And the various ages by which things were valued and and.

And and the thing is you couldn't make any switcheroo's on God. You couldn't give him, you know a lamb and it goes up to be real nice. And then you had a one that just was sort of sick and scrappy. Okay.

Well, I just switch it, you know. And do a switcheroo on God and give him this poor one. He wouldn't go for that either. And so you try that switcheroo. They both belong to God. And so no switcheroo's on him he he wouldn't go for that kind of a bit and you try that kind of stuff you get in trouble because then you'll take them both and so He goes on and lays out this whole thing of things dedicated to God and If you wanted them back the ways by which you got them back now.

As far as the firstborn of anything that just automatically belonged to God. God laid claim to the firstborn of everything the firstborn lamb the firstborn calf the firstborn. Of any of the animals they all belong to God you wanted to keep them you could buy them from God.

But the God just automatically laid claim to the firstborn of everything even your firstborn son. You had to buy from God. He was he was he belonged to God firstborn. God claimed all the firstborn so the firstborn is mine and so you want him you can buy him and so God is a is a is a shrewd businessman and He deals in a very straightforward way.

So the firstling of the beast which should be the Lord's firstling no man shall sanctify it you don't have to dedicate it. It's already God's whether it's an ox or sheep it's the Lord's and if it be of an unclean animal, you know, if it's a horse or An animal that was considered unclean you couldn't offer it to God.

Then you had to buy it from the Lord because it's still the firstborn still belongs to God. So you have firstborn horse you have to buy that from he didn't want the horse. So you just take the money instead and so.