Category: LEVITICUS

ACCEPTABLE OFFERINGS TO THE LORD

Acceptable offerings to the LORD. “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any stranger in Israel who presents his offering, whether to fulfill any of their vows or as any of their freewill (voluntary) offerings which they presented to the LORD as a burnt offering–so that you may be accepted–it must be a male without blemish from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats.

HOLINESS AND THE PRIESTS

Holiness and the Priests. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ‘No one shall defile himself [that is, become ceremonially unclean] for the dead among his people [by touching a corpse or assisting in preparing it for burial], except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother, also his virgin sister, who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may become unclean.

PUNISHMENT FOR CHILD SACRIFICE

Moreover, you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘Any Israelite or any stranger residing in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech (the god of the Ammonites) [as a human sacrifice] shall most certainly be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

UNLAWFUL SEXUAL RELATIONS

Unlawful Sexual Relations. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.
You shall not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, and you shall not do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes (practices, customs).

THE LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD

The life of the flesh is in the blood. Any man from the house of Israel, or any stranger living temporarily among you, who eats any blood, against that person I shall set My face and I will cut him off from his people [excluding him from the atonement made for them]. [Eze_33:25]
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life [which it represents].’ [Rom_3:24-26

THE DAY OF ATONEMENT AND THE SCAPEGOAT

. Then Aaron shall lay both of his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the wickedness of the sons of Israel and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and he shall lay them on the head of the goat [the scapegoat, the sin-bearer], and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is prepared [for the task]. The goat shall carry on itself all their (the Israelites) wickedness, carrying them to a solitary (infertile) land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.

LAWS ABOUT LEPROSY

Laws about leprosy. The priest shall look at the diseased spot on the skin of his body, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the infection appears deeper than the skin of his, it is an infection of leprosy; when the priest has looked at him, he shall pronounce him [ceremonially] unclean.