Offerings and Festivals: The structure of daily and special worship becomes the subject for chapters 28–29. The book of Numbers began with the organization of life as God’s people, emphasizing the spatial dimension as they journeyed (the divine presence at the center, then priests and Levites, and then the people). Soon, when the people enter the land, this spatial organization will be less relevant. So in these chapters, the Priestly tradents are instructing the people to order life liturgically around the divine presence, according to the cycles and boundaries of time. Leviticus and Numbers both show that boundaries are important and dangerous, but that they can be negotiated with proper care.

28:1–8  The instructions on offerings and festivals are in the context of a divine speech to Mos…