Tag: Christ

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.

THE DEATH OF NADAB AND ABIHU

Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective [ceremonial] censers, put fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange (unauthorized, unacceptable) fire before the LORD, [an act] which He had not commanded them to do.
And fire came out from the presence of the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

THE LORD ACCEPTS AARON’S OFFERING

The Lord accepts Aaron’s offering. And it happened on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel; his sons and the elders of Israel; and he said to Aaron, “Take a bull calf as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, [each] without blemish, and offer both before the LORD.

THINGS FORBIDDEN AND THE PORTION FOR THE PRIESTS

Things forbidden and the portion for the priests. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall not eat any fat from an ox, a sheep, or a goat. Moreover, you are not to eat any blood [of any kind], whether of bird or animal, in any of your dwelling places.