Quotes About Preparation

Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.

“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

You must not go outside the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are complete; for it will take seven days to ordain you.

You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.

From the sons of Zebulun, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

They are to take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand used for light, together with its lamps, wick trimmers, and trays, as well as the jars of oil with which to supply it.

They are to take all the utensils for serving in the sanctuary, place them in a blue cloth, cover them with fine leather, and put them on the carrying frame.

and place on it all the vessels used to serve there: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and sprinkling bowls—all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread over it a covering of fine leather and insert the poles.

The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

This is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.

On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”

They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.

They set out from Ezion-geber and camped at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.

When you are about to go into battle, the priest is to come forward and address the army,

“Go through the camp and tell the people, ëPrepare your provisions, for within three days you will cross the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.í”

Early the next morning Joshua got up and left Shittim with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.

After three days the officers went through the camp

Then Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over before the Israelites, armed for battle as Moses had instructed them.

with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.

So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.

Joshua got up early the next morning and mobilized his men, and he and the elders of Israel marched before them up to Ai.

So the forces were stationed with the main camp to the north of the city and the rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But take a look, it is now dry and moldy.