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May 9, 2026 - Leviticus 21 & Psalm 100 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bybooting Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength with God's word lighting the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Stanborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Saturday, May 9th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Leviticus 21.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the Lord said to Moses, Speak to the priest, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people, except for his closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother, or his virgin sister, who is near to him because she has had no husband.
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  SPEAKER_01: For her he may make himself unclean.
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  SPEAKER_01: He shall not make himself unclean as a husband among his people, and so profane himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.
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  SPEAKER_01: They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God.
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  SPEAKER_01: For they offer the Lord's food offerings, the bread of their God, therefore they shall be holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
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  SPEAKER_01: You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God.
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  SPEAKER_01: He shall be holy to you, for I, the Lord who sanctify you, am holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father, she shall be burned with fire.
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  SPEAKER_01: The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, nor tear his clothes.
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  SPEAKER_01: He shall not go into any dead bodies, nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.
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  SPEAKER_01: He shall not go out of the sanctuary, lest he profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he shall take a wife in her virginity, a widow or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry, but he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people, that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to Aaron, saying, None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God, for no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long, or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand, or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a defect in his sight, or an itching disease, or scabs, or crushed testicles.
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  SPEAKER_01: No man of the offspring of Aaron, the priest who has a blemish, shall come near to offer the Lord's food offerings.
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  SPEAKER_01: Since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
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  SPEAKER_01: He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things, but he shall not go through the veil, or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth, serve the Lord with gladness, come into his presence with singing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Know that the Lord, he is God, it is he who made us, and we are his.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give thanks to him, bless his name, for the Lord is good, his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today we have a bit of a unique episode.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've done this once before, but we are in my truck driving just to take care of an errand really quickly.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we wanted to make sure that we discussed God's word together.
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  SPEAKER_01: We love to do that every single day.
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  SPEAKER_01: We hope that you love listening and reading along with us.
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  SPEAKER_01: But today we're going to be focusing on Psalm 100.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tyler, this is a short psalm, a pocket psalm, as I've called the shorter psalms before again, that you can just put in your pocket and take with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: But a very beautiful psalm.
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  SPEAKER_01: It actually reminds me of several different psalms that are kind of stitched together in a way that is beautiful and fresh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, one of the things that really stuck out to me was as the psalm, the psalm just kind of is just reflecting that that we are his.
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  SPEAKER_01: God created all things, God is our creator and we are his.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Tyler, as you hear that and read that, that we are his, that we belong to God, uh, what does that do to your heart and just your mind?
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  SPEAKER_01: What kind of things come to your mind?
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  SPEAKER_01: What what kind of things do you feel in your heart when you when you hear that that truth in Psalm 100?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it makes me glad uh and it it draws my attention to other passages in scripture that that talk about sheep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh we we discussed um uh at length that this is Psalm 23, and we've referenced it many times, but I'm I'm imagining the Lord calling me to places that He wants me to be um to make me lie down in green pastures, to uh uh to draw me near to still waters to drink, uh to uh to protect me, to uh refresh me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's good to be where the Lord uh leads and uh it's encouraging to to know that uh the the king of kings is calling us his own, you're mine, you belong to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh and we were discussing in Life Roop uh this yesterday what it what it means for God to be our father and Jesus to be our brother.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we had a a good time of discussion in the Sanborn household uh during Life Root, but though the the feelings and and the thoughts that come to mind are encouraging ones, joyful ones, and uh I'm just so encouraged by Psalm 100 as I reflect on it today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think for me there's I guess two primary words.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot that actually kind of flunt my mind and my heart, but the first one is is safety.
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  SPEAKER_01: It does kind of draw my mind and my heart back to Psalm 23, that the Lord is our shepherd, we shall not want.
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  SPEAKER_01: He makes us lie down in green pastures, he leads us beside still waters, he restores our soul.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, it has kind of that same feel and flavor where uh we are the sheep of his pasture.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's a sense of safety.
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  SPEAKER_01: If if the Lord is the shepherd overseeing his sheep on his pasture, I mean, where is a safer place to be?
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's none.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is none.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, because of course, the shepherd analogy, lots of wild animals, even sometimes danger that the sheep would get themselves into just because of their wandering off or you know, their their foolishness as sheep, as animals.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh so just a feeling of safety, a sense of the Lord is our protector, he is our shield, he is our rock.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the psalms are riddled with that kind of language.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I just sort of imagine uh a scene that is uh filled with serenity.
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  SPEAKER_01: I imagine green grass, I imagine um just the watchful gaze of the shepherd, and just even the tender care uh of that gaze and the compassion that he has for his sheep.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I also feel not just safety, but a sense of comfort that comes with that.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord is our shepherd, we shall not want kind of again reminds me uh of even though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we will fear no evil.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so there's this comfort that I think comes from uh what is said here in Psalm 100.
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  SPEAKER_01: But what I also love is how it basically says, right, that we are the sheep of his pasture.
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  SPEAKER_01: So not only are we his, and there's a sense of ownership and a sense of uh God saying, You belong to me, you are mine, uh, but the very pasture, the land, the grass, the water, I mean, all of it belongs to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's his land, it's his property, so to speak, it's it's his sheep.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and and he takes responsibility, he takes the onus of caring for his sheep.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh I love how it even talks about making a joyful noise again.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, because again, this this psalm really has uh a lot of different themes, you know, entering into his courts with Thanksgiving.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um it's kind of mentioned there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and so I I love Psalm 100.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's it's just a psalm of praise, it's a psalm of again, just a sense of comfort and safety, and uh another just great pocket psalm uh where you can hopefully just take this with you and be encouraged by it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then again, verse one make a joyful noise to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: All the earth, serve the Lord with gladness.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've read that several times really in the in the psalms, but there's a whole psalm dedicated to just that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Come into his presence with Thanksgiving.
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  SPEAKER_01: And all of this, kind of the center point of the psalm, is all kind of building towards verse three.
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  SPEAKER_01: Know that the Lord, he is God.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is he who made us.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we are his.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's really the binding theme of Psalm 100 is that we need to know the Lord, that he is God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's even reminiscent of Leviticus, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Where God consistently says, I am the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Know that I am God.
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  SPEAKER_01: He gives a command and he says, Because I am the Lord your God, I am the one that brought you out of Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we see that theme here as well in Psalm 100.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just a great encouraging psalm for us to kind of think about today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thanks for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible reading podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.