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Clean Offering

No. 7 in Returning Home Genesis 3 gives the first instructions about sacrificing to God with an account of what not to do. Cain, a tiller of the ground, decides to offer something that is not acceptable to God and gets angry when his Creator refuses…

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To God Alone

No. 6 in Returning Home Those who came on the first expedition are listed in Ezra 2. Nehemiah 7 confirms this documentation when he finds the registry after the city wall is rebuilt and the gates are closed. To summarize: Ezra numbers the returning Israelites…

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Taking Charge

No. 5 in Returning Home Ezra records a list of the men leading the expedition to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. Now these are the people of the province who came back from the captivity, of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the…

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Keeping Record

No. 4 in Returning Home Hebrews 9:1 states, “Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.” The book of Hebrews makes a comparison between the Old and New Covenants. It was written to a Jewish audience who had…

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