Tag: Leviticus
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Specifics of the law
I didn’t realize that there was a prohibition against tattoos in Leviticus. More importantly, I love how the Lord makes provision for the poor in small ways like requiring that people leave the corners and the gleaning of their fields to the poor, widows, and fatherless. In a society that conscientiously makes space for the…
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If ye keep my commandments
The promises if the people would be obedient were generous. They would feel safer in the land and 5 men of Israel would chase down 100 enemies and 100 of the men of Israel would put 10000 to flight. On the other hand. The promise if they rejected the commandments was that they would for…
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Scribes and Pharisees
As I read through the law I understand that it was meant to point the people to think of Jehovah but I can also see how a people keeping the law but forgetting the reason and symbolism behind it could begin to act like Pharisees – caught up in details but dead to purpose.
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Stay in the main stream
The people are instructed not to make sacrifices outside the oversight of the tabernacle. In prior times Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had done that but now that they had a tabernacle they were not to try practicing the faith independent of that tabernacle. I hadn’t realized before that all the abominable practices mentioned in chapter…
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Leprosy
As I read all of this I am convinced that all the things referred to here as leprosy were not a single disease but a class of contagious diseases. Who knows what we should call any of them today although I’m sure the one we can leprosy was among them.
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Add the fifth part
I notice that in any trespass in which someone gains through sin (hiding what they found or lying for gain) they were to restore that ill-gotten gain plus ⅕ again it’s value before they could then offer a sacrifice to be forgiven. That’s much better than our present system which often fines less than the…
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First year complete
I never realized before that the first year of their sojourn in the wilderness was completed before they completed the tabernacle. I also had believed that all offerings were to be of male animals. Now I notice that piece offerings can be make it female animals. Other things I noticed are that all offerings must…
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20 June 2010
Leviticus 27I did not know that people could be consecrated to the Lord for specified portions of their lives, I thought it was once consecrated then always consecrated. Not only could consecrations be for specified portions but the value of the consecration varied by the time of life. Men were more valuable than women but…
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19 June 2010
Leviticus 26I hadn’t thought about it before but the various shrines of the Catholic church, even the ones they discover (the image of Mary in a tree for example) are in direct violation of the secong commandment not to have or bow down to any idol. The Lord makes some very specific and desirable promises…
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18 June 2010
Leviticus 24 – 25We always focus on the barbarity of the “eye for an eye” mentality but we fail to recognize the progressiveness of the command that they should deal exactly the same legally for a stranger as they should for one of their own country. I believe the common practice was to deal more…