The Holy Bible: Leviticus - "and He called.."

THIRD BOOK OF THE TORAH (THE LAW) BY MOSES:

Leviticus (Greek: Λευιτικός, "relating to the Levites") or Vayikra in Hebrew: ויקרא, literally

named "and He called" from the first word of the Hebrew text, and is the third book of

the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament, and the third of five books of the Jewish Torah or Pentateuch that were written by Moses. I think it would be correct to say that much of the Levitical law is what Paul referred to as the law of Moses that was not binding to Christians. In fact, most of these laws were not even binding to the Israelites, only their priests in the line of Levi. Remember, Christ is in the line of Melchizedek, not Levi! The New Covenant is not in the order of Levi, but Melchizedek. When the Bible was translated into Greek in the 3rd century BC to produce the Septuagint, the name given was biblion to Levitikon (Greek: βιβλίον το Λευιτικόν), meaning "book of the Levites". This was in line with the Septuagint use of subject themes as book names. The Latin name became Liber Leviticus, from which the English name is derived. These names are somewhat misleading, as the book makes a very strong distinction between the priesthood, descended from Aaron, and mere Levites. Leviticus is the word of Yahweh (The LORD), dictated to Moses from the Tent of the Church before Mount Sinai.

Leviticus 1 “and He called”

The Burnt Offering: (The only one that the entire animal is burned)

1 Now the LORD(Jesus) called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tabernacle of the Church, saying:

2 Tell the people of Israel: 'When you bring an offering to the LORD(Jesus), you may bring your animal offering either from the herd or from the flock.

3 If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you are to offer a male without defect. You must present it at the entrance of the Tabernacle of the Church so that you may be acceptable to the LORD(Jesus).

A BURNT OFFERING: so called from its being wholly consumed on the altar; no part of it was eaten either by the priests or the offerer. It was designed to propitiate the anger of God incurred by original sin, or by particular transgressions; and its entire combustion indicated the self-dedication of the offerer--his body and soul--as necessary to form a sacrifice acceptable to God (Romans 12:1, Philippians 1:20). This was the most ancient as well as the most conspicuous mode of sacrifice.

a male without blemish--No animal was allowed to be offered that had any deformity or defect. Among the Egyptians, a minute inspection was made by the priest; and the bullock having been declared perfect, a certificate to that effect being fastened to its horns with wax, was sealed with his ring, and no other might be substituted. A similar process of examining the condition of the beasts brought as offerings, seems to have been adopted by the priests in Israel (John 6:27).

This offering is the only one where the animal is totally offered up. MOST of the sacrifices which have never been “done away with” merely have to to with the ritual slaughter of an animal for food, where the fat and the organs are burned to God as a form of tithe, and the priest (the butcher) takes his 10% part!

4 He is to lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

5 He is to slaughter the young bull before the LORD(Jesus); and the priests, and Aaron’s descendants shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar that is by the door of the Tabernacle of the Church.

sprinkle the blood--This was to be done by the priests. The blood being considered the life, the effusion of it was the essential part of the sacrifice; and the sprinkling of it--the application of the atonement--made the person and services of the offerer acceptable to God. The skin having been stripped off, and the carcass cut up, the various pieces were disposed on the altar in the manner best calculated to facilitate their being consumed by the fire.

6 And he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces.

7 The descendants of Aaron the priest are to put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.

8 Then the priests, Aaron’s descendants, are to arrange the pieces, the head and the fat on the wood which is on the fire on the altar.

the fat--that about the kidneys especially, which is called "suet."

9 He is to wash the entrails and lower parts of the legs with water, and the priest is to cause all of it to go up in smoke on the altar as a burnt offering; it is an offering made by fire, a fragrant aroma for the LORD(Jesus).

10 If his offering is from the flock, whether from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he must offer a male without defect.

11 He is to slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the LORD(Jesus); and the priests, Aaron’s descendants, shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar.

12 He is to cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat; and the priest is to arrange them with the head and fat on the wood which is on the fire on the altar.

13 but he shall wash the internal organs and the legs with water, and the priest is to bring all of them and burn them on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD(Jesus).

14 And if the burnt offering to the LORD(Jesus) is of birds, then he shall bring for his offering turtledoves or young pigeons.

15 The priest shall bring it to the altar, snap off its head and make it go up in smoke on the altar; its blood is to be drained out on the side of the altar.

The gentle nature and cleanly habits of the dove led to its selection, while all other fowls were rejected, either for the fierceness of their disposition or the grossness of their taste; and in this case, there being from the smallness of the animal no blood for waste, the priest was directed to prepare it at the altar and sprinkle the blood. This was the offering appointed for the poor. The fowls were always offered in pairs, and the reason why Moses ordered two turtledoves or two young pigeons, was not merely to suit the convenience of the offerer, but according as the latter was in season; for pigeons are sometimes quite hard and unfit for eating, at which time turtledoves are very good in Egypt and Palestine. The turtledoves are not restricted to any age because they are always good when they appear in those countries, being birds of passage; but the age of the pigeons is particularly marked that they might not be offered to God at times when they are rejected by men [HARMER]. It is obvious, from the varying scale of these voluntary sacrifices, that the disposition of the offerer was the thing looked to--not the costliness of his offering.

SNAP OFF ITS HEAD: Still the way many kill chickens and fowl today. My father killed chickens this way.

16 He is to remove the food pouch and its feathers from its neck and discard it on the pile of ashes just east of the altar.

17 Then he is to tear it open by the wings, not dividing it totally, and then the priest shall burn it on the wood that is burning on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, an aroma that is pleasing to the LORD(Jesus).

Sacrifices

A very misunderstood ritual in the Bible is the sacrifice. Most Christians claim that all sacrifices have been “done away with,” but if that id=s the case, why did the Apostles continue to sacrifice after Jesus died? One can prove this by scripture, and I will. Remember, because some of the ordinances of sacrifice were not part of the Law of Moses, they were not necessarily discontinued when Christ fulfilled that particular law. In fact, many of the offerings were specifically intended to permanent laws for the nation of Israel. They are stated as laws FOREVER!

Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread......One of the offerings still required by Israel is the feast of Passover, and its adjunct feast of unleavened bread. These were given by command of God while Israel was yet in bondage in Egypt, before the added law was given. Both of these feasts required sacrifices, and both were to be kept forever (Exodus. 12:14, 17, 24-25, 47):

14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

This feast requires the slaughter of the lamb. Not all Christians are bound to follow the passover, but they may if they choose.

Also anytime we slaughter an animal to eat, should we not do so in a manner that God requires? To slay it, show respect for its blood and burn it, as well as the other parts that we are not to eat?

The last thing we must remember is that we read in Ezekiel that when Christ returns, so do sacrifices! Read Ezekiel 43:18 for a shock!

It is probable that like everything else concerning the Law, Christians today are under the same law that the Israelites were in their wanderings for forty years! Basically, only the Ten Commandments were mandated, along with some sacrifices and holidays were uncircumcised people could partake.

Leviticus 2 “and He called” 2

The Grain Offering

1 When anyone offers a grain offering to the LORD(Jesus), his offering shall be of fine flour. And he shall pour olive oil on it, and put frankincense on it.

2 He shall bring it to Aaron’s descendants, the priests, one of whom shall take from it his handful of fine flour and oil with all the frankincense. And the priest shall burn it as a memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD(Jesus).

3 The rest of the grain offering shall be Aaron’s and his descendants’. It is most holy of the offerings to the LORD(Jesus) made by fire.

4 When you bring a grain offering which has been baked in the oven, it is to consist of either unleavened cakes made of fine flour mixed with olive oil or matzoh spread with olive oil.

(Yeast)Unleavened – yeast equals sin!

5 If your offering is a grain offering cooked on a griddle, it is to consist of unleavened fine flour mixed with olive oil;

6 you are to break it in pieces and pour olive oil on it -it is a grain offering.

7 If your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pot, it is to consist of fine flour with olive oil.

8 You are to bring the grain offering prepared in any of these ways to the LORD(Jesus). And when it is presented to the priest, he is to bring it to the altar.

9 Then the priest shall take out the remembrance portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the the LORD(Jesus).

10 What is left over of the grain offering is Aaron’s and his descendants’. It is most holy of the offerings to the LORD(Jesus) made by fire.

11 Every grain offering you bring to the LORD(Jesus) shall be made without yeast, for you shall burn no yeast nor any honey in any offering to the LORD(Jesus) made by fire.

12 As an offering of firstfruits you may bring these to the LORD(Jesus), but they are not to be brought up onto the altar to make a fragrant aroma.

13 You are to season every grain offering of yours with salt -do not omit from your grain offering the salt of the covenant with your God, but offer salt with all your offerings.

Salt = immortality or GOD!

14 If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD(Jesus), offer crushed heads of new grain roasted in the fire.

15 Put olive oil on it, and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.

16 Then the priest is to cause the remembrance portion of it, its grits and olive oil, with all its frankincense, to go up in smoke; it is an offering made by fire for the LORD(Jesus).

The Grain Offering:

The grain or meal offering is sometimes referred to as the meat offering this comes from the King James Version of the Bible and is some what a misnomer as no meat is offered, in fact this is the offering of the five in which the flesh of an animal is not offered. The reason for using the word meat was that in the days of king James, a person would not be asked out for a meal, he would be asked to meat. Luther renders the term as food offering.

It was a sweet savour offering, like the burnt and the peace offerings, it was something pleasant and sweet to God(Elohim/Theos) with no thought of sin-bearing or cleansing of sin in the offering. It was a freewill offering given voluntarily not under compulsion, verses 4 and 14 say 'if' you bring. The meal offerings were either public or private and were either brought with a burnt or peace offerings or by themselves, but never with a sin or trespass offering. The three public meal offerings were the twelve loaves of shewbread, the Omer, or sheaf of wheat, on the second day of the Passover, and the two wave loaves at Pentecost. The four private meal offerings prescribed by law were, the meal offering of the high priest, at the consecration of priests, in substitution for a sin offering in cases of poverty, and that of jealousy. There were four types of offerings, again associated with circumstances or property of the offerer.

The uncooked flour - verse 1

Bread baked in an oven - verse 4

Bread prepared on a griddle - verse 5

Bread cooked in a pan - verse 7

There are two things or meanings expressed by the grain offering. The first draws on the similarity to tithing (first fruit and shewbread), appears to be expressed in the words of David from 1 Chron. 29:10-14 , "for everything in heaven and earth is yours....Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand". It recognizes the sovereignty and majesty of God(Elohim/Theos) and that in his bounty he bestows all earthly blessings, by dedicating to him the best of these gifts. The second meaning ascribed to these offerings the symbol of the spiritual food for which Israel strove after as the fruit of its spiritual labour, or those good works in which true sanctification must necessarily embody itself. There was a symbolism in the ingredients used for the meal that emphasizes the first of the two meanings. Let us look at these ingredients in detail

FLOUR

Flour was the basis of the offering it represented the bread of life as bread was the main support to life. The sacrifices burnt on the altar are called the bread of God(Elohim/Theos), Jesus described himself as the Bread of life. The flour was to be of the finest quality, 'fine flour' fully ground and finely sifted, free from any coarseness, unevenness, and empty husks. The mill stones must grind the wheat to an absolute fineness. Christ's life was one of passing through the grinding millstone of suffering, trial, and temptation. In Christ's perfect life there was no trace of unevenness or coarseness, in public or private he was the same the perfect character, fine flour - finely sifted, fine gold - refined pure metal.

OIL

The oil was poured upon the flour, it is spoken of as being 'anointed' with oil in Lev. 7:12. Oil is of course a symbol of the Holy Spirit. If the fine flour is seen as Christ's perfect life anointed with the Oil of the Holy Spirit, we easily see the sense of the Messiah being the anointed one visible in the offering. The anointing is also for the believer, yet it is necessary for the preparation of the millstones grinding. There was oil on and oil in the cakes (verse 5,6). The anointing was to do with the outward working of the Holy Spirit. While the mingling speaks of the inward working of the Holy Spirit, the indwelling. Just as every part of Christ's life, every thought, every word, every deed, was mingled (saturated) with the holy spirit, so should ours.

FRANKINCENSE

There must be frankincense on the offering, probably burning in a censer, placed on top of cakes emitting fragrant smoke. The twelve shewbread cakes (Lev.24:5-7) arranged in two piles had frankincense on top of each pile in such a way. Christ's perfect life was a sweet smelling savour to God(Elohim/Theos) (Ephesians 5:2) and we are to be a sweet savour to God(Elohim/Theos) (2 Cor.2:15). There are three things to be remembered about frankincense

1 ) Frankincense was exclusively for God(Elohim/Theos) ( verse 2 'all')

2 ) Frankincense gave a sweet fragrance that is pleasing to God(Elohim/Theos)

3 ) It was fire that drew forth the fragrance

The thought is that while going through the fiery trials of life, we submit ourselves to God(Elohim/Theos) and conduct ourselves in a way that is pleasing to God(Elohim/Theos) that He receives as a sweet smelling savour.

SALT

Another necessary ingredient was salt, salt must be added to every sacrifice. Salt has a purifying influence, Christ's influence purified the lives of those he contacted, believers are called to be the salt of the earth. Salt is the emblem of incorruption and Christ's body saw no corruption (Psalm 16:10). Salt is also the emblem of Divine grace and Christ's words are always health-giving and wholesome. Finally it is called 'the salt of the covenant' in verse 13. The offerer was in a covenant relationship with God(Elohim/Theos) and salt was seen as the seal of friendship. God(Elohim/Theos) has made an everlasting covenant of friendship with us.

Wine was not mentioned but was the basis of the drink offering and was symbolic of vigor and refreshment (Psalm 104:15). There were also two substances that were particularly excluded from use in the offering. yeast was forbidden (verse 11) Where as salt was an emblem of incorruption, a preservative against corruption, yeast is the emblem of corruption. To mix the holy things of God(Elohim/Theos) with yeast (evil) is an abomination to the LORD(Jesus). (Hophi and Phinehas, 1 Sam.2:12)

The yeast of hypocrisy - Luke 12:1

The yeast of pride - 1 Cor. 5:6

The yeast of sin - 1 Cor. 5:7,8

The yeast of false teaching - Gal.5:9

The yeast of self-indulgence - Mark 8:15 (worldliness)

Honey was also forbidden (verse 11). Honey represents things that are sweet and pleasing and attractive to the flesh to the natural man. In fact it often represents that which is natural, in the spiritual sense it is that which is self-pleasing. When honey is burnt it begins to ferment and turns sour, the smell of burning honey is very different to the fragrance of burning incense.

In presenting the offering the offerer simply came to the door of the tabernacle having prepared it as instructed and gave it to the priests. There was no ceremony just simple submission, for there was nothing meritorious in his action only obedience. The priest received the meal offering from him, took a handful of the grain or cakes, with all the frankincense and burned it on the altar. The remainder belonged to the priests. It was eaten by Aaron and his descendants in the court of the tabernacle. Only a small portion of this offering belonged to God(Elohim/Theos), but it was a memorial, which means that the handful represented the whole in the sight of God(Elohim/Theos) and was accepted by Him as the whole. http://www.watton.org/studies&stories/feasts/feasts2.htm

Leviticus 3

The Peace (fellowship) Offering

There are three kinds of peace-offering: (1) the thanksgiving (); (2) the votive-offering (); and (3) the free-will offering (). The thanksgiving is a response to acts of divine beneficence. This is what the Pilgrims had in mind with the establishment of THANKSGIVING in America. The votive and the free-will sacrifices are connected with the expectation of benefit; but the significance of the thank-offering is wider than that of the other two. The votive offering is prompted by a feeling of gratefulness at the fulfilment of a petition; while the free-will sacrifice, which has the character of complete voluntariness, has its origin not so much in the gratitude elicited by a happy experience as in the spontaneous motive of piety.

The Peace Offering is sometimes translated Fellowship Offering. It came about voluntarily, as a desire was expressed to thank God(Elohim/Theos) and to seek for fellowship (communion) with God.

The blood of the Peace Offering was sprinkled at the Burnt Offering Altar, the fat and inward parts were removed and the remainder roasted. The fat and inward parts were burned; this was for God(Elohim/Theos)'s satisfaction, as a sweet aroma. Because God had stated clearly what pleased Him, then a person who offered such a Peace Offering was truly doing what pleased God: that person was having fellowship (communing) with God(Elohim/Theos).

It was also the case that the flesh of the offering was for the priest and the offerer to consume, to have a meal together, with some unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, similar to the Meal Offering.

The Peace Offering was an indication of a good, healthy, loving relationship between the offerer and God(Elohim/Theos) and between the offerer and the priests. There was peace with God and there was peace with fellow citizens.

Paul writes: "Christ Himself is our peace" (Ephesians 2:14), because "we who were once far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ" (Ephesians 2:13). "Having been justified by faith" (by the sprinkling of the blood at the Burnt Offering Altar) "we have peace with God(Elohim/Theos)" (Romans 5:1). Our fellowship with God(Elohim/Theos) is restored through faith in the death and shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and sustained through the shared nourishment His life affords us as our portion to feed on.

The Christ who "is our peace" in Ephesians 2:14 is also the Christ "who has made both one ", where 'both' refers to the Jews and the Gentiles. To those who believe in Jesus Christ, His death is the place for us to be one. It is the only place that oneness will work. Everywhere else there is no peace, because there are conflicts about how to do everything! Only as we begin to know "the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death" (Philippians 3:10) can we "be of the same mind in the Lord" (Philippians 4:2; 2:5-8). Otherwise we will be just like Euodias and Syntyche, fighting and squabbling, with no peace. It is ironic that 'Euodias' means 'sweet aroma', however, that would be just a name without the true experience of Christ as the Peace Offering. "Christ Himself is our peace" (Ephesians 2:14).

1 If your offering is a fellowship offering, and you offer an animal from the herd, whether male or female, you are to present before the LORD(Jesus) an animal without defect.

2 He is to lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the Tabernacle of the church; and Aaron’s descendants, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood all around on the altar.

3 From the fellowship offering you are to bring a food offering to the LORD(Jesus): the internal organs and all the fat that is connected to them,

4 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which you will remove with the kidneys.

5 and Aaron’s descendants are to burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering that is lying on the burning wood; it is a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD(Jesus).

6 If you offer an animal from the flock as a fellowship offering to the LORD(Jesus), you are to offer a male or female without defect.

7 If you offer a lamb, you are to present it before the LORD(Jesus).

8 He is to lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the Tabernacle of the church; and Aaron’s descendants shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar.

9 From the fellowship offering you are to bring a food offering to the LORD(Jesus): its fat, the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone, the internal organs and all the fat that is connected to them,

10 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which you will remove with the kidneys.

11 The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering presented to the LORD(Jesus).

12 If your offering is a goat, you are to present it before the LORD(Jesus).

13 He shall lay his hand on its head and kill it before the tabernacle of the church; and the descendants of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar.

14 Then he shall offer from it his offering, as an offering made by fire to the LORD(Jesus). The fat that covers the internal organs and all the fat that is on the organs,

15 the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the loins, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he must remove;

16 and the priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma; all the fat is the LORD(Jesus)’s.

17 This shall be an everlasting statute throughout your generations in all your homess: you shall eat neither fat nor blood.

Leviticus 4 “and He called” 4

The Sin Offering

There is a degree of overlap between the Sin Offering and the Trespass Offering. Some christian teachers have distinguished that 'Sin' is the nature and tendency towards sinful deeds (which nature we all possess), whereas 'Trespass' is a specific instance of Sin: a sin, a wrongdoing, a trespass, a transgression. "All have sinned" (Romans 3:23), ie trespassed, because "all are under sin" (Galatians 3:22), the sinful nature (Romans 7:8,17,20).

The Sin Offering is indicated for our general sinful condition before God(Elohim/Theos) (Lev.5:13) and also for unintentional sins (Lev.4:1,27), especially by leaders or by the people as a whole (Lev.4:3,13,22), but also for individuals among God(Elohim/Theos)'s people (Lev.4:27).

The good news of the Sin Offering is that Christ has fulfilled the sin offering, once for all:

"Christ was manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself" (Hebrews 9:26)

"He who knew no sin was made sin for us" (II Corinthians 5:21)

"God(Elohim/Theos) sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so He condemned sin in sinful man" (Romans 8:3).

Like Christ, the sin offering is to be burned outside the camp (temple/tabernacle area) as Christ was crucified outside the camp as well.

Based on faith in what Christ has done for us by His death on the cross, we can be released from slavery to our sinful nature and its tendencies. Jesus said "Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin... If the Son shall set you free, you shall be free indeed" (John 8:34,36).

1 Now the LORD(Jesus) spoke to Moses, saying:

2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If a person sins unintentionally against any of the commandments of the LORD(Jesus) in anything that they should not have,

3 then, if it is the anointed priest who sinned, bringing guilt on the people, then let him offer to the LORD(Jesus) for his sin a young bull without blemish as a sin offering.

4 He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tabernacle of the church before the LORD(Jesus), he is to lay his hand on its head and slaughter it there before the LORD(Jesus).

5 Then the anointed priest is to take some of the bull's blood and bring it to the Tabernacle of the church.

6 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the LORD(Jesus), in front of the veil of the sanctuary.

7 And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD(Jesus), which is in the Tabernacle of the church[of Israel]; and he shall pour the remaining blood of the bull at the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tabernacle of meeting.

8 He shall remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering--all the fat that is connected to the internal organs,

9 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys,

10 just as the fat is removed from the ox sacrificed as a fellowship offering. Then the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.

11 But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, as well as the head and legs, the internal organs and the intestines-

12 in other words, the entire bull -he is to bring outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are emptied out. There he is to burn it on wood with fire; there, where the ashes are emptied out, it is to be burned up.

13 Now if the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally, and its hidden from the eyes of the church, and they have done something against any of the commandments of the LORD(Jesus) in anything which should not be done, and are guilty;

14 When the sin they have committed becomes known, then the assembly is to offer a young bull as a sin offering and bring it before the Tabernacle of meeting.

15 And the elders of the church shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD(Jesus). Then the bull shall be killed before the LORD(Jesus).

16 The anointed priest shall bring some of the bull’s blood to the Tabernacle of the church.

17 Then the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD(Jesus), in front of the veil.

18 And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the LORD(Jesus), which is in the Tabernacle of the church; and he shall pour the remaining blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tabernacle of meeting.

19 He shall remove all the fat from it and burn it on the altar,

20 and do with this bull just as he did with the bull for the sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.

21 Then he is to carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is a sin offering for the assembly.

22 When a ruler has sinned, and done something unintentionally against any of the commandments of the LORD(Jesus) his God(Elohim/Theos) and when he realizes his guilt

23 and the sin he has committed becomes known, he must bring as his offering a male goat without defect.

24 He is to lay his hand on the goat's head and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD(Jesus). It is a sin offering.

25 Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

26 He shall burn all the fat on the altar as he burned the fat of the fellowship offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for the leader's sin, and he will be forgiven.

27 If any member of the community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD(Jesus) and when they realize their guilt

28 and the sin they have committed becomes known, they must bring as their offering for the sin they committed a female goat without defect.

29 They are to lay their hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.

30 Then the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour all the remaining blood at the base of the altar.

31 He shall remove all the fat, just as the fat is removed from the fellowship offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar as an aroma pleasing to the LORD(Jesus). In this way the priest will make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.

32 If he brings a lamb as his sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish(defect).

33 Then he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it as a sin offering at the place where they kill the burnt offering.

34 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour all the remaining blood at the base of the altar.

35 He is to remove all the fat, as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of the peace offering. Then the priest shall burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire to the LORD(Jesus). So the priest shall make atonement for his sin that he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 5 “and He called” 5

The Trespass or Guilt Offering

The Trespass or guilt Offering was for specific known sins, trespasses where the person knew what they had done, because of their conscience, in relation to their experience versus what they knew God required. As indicated previously, the Trespass Offering and the Sin Offering have some degree of overlap, where 'Sin' might be considered to be our sinful nature and 'Trespass' as a sinful deed, a wrongdoing, a trespass. This is illustrated by the following passage from John's first letter. Note first the sinful nature is mentioned, then the specific sinful deeds, sins:

"The blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we do not have sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.

... I write these things to you, that you may not sin. But if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins" (I John 1:7-2:2).

'Propitiation' means an 'anger-quenching, penalty-paying offering to God'.

This then is the good news of the Trespass Offering:

"Christ died for our sins" (I Corinthians 15:3)

"Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people" (Hebrews 9:28)

"Christ Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness" (I Peter 2:24)

"Christ suffered once for sins, the righteous One on behalf of the unrighteous ones, that He might bring us to God(Elohim/Theos)" (I Peter 3:18).

1 If a person who is a witness, sworn to testify, sins by refusing to tell what he has seen or heard about the matter, he must bear the consequences.

2 If a person touches something unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, a domestic animal or a reptile, he is guilty, even though he may not be aware that he is unclean.

3 If he touches some human uncleanness, no matter what the source of his uncleanness is, and is unaware of it, then, when he learns of it, he is guilty.

4 If someone allows to slip from his mouth an oath to do evil or to do good, and he doesn't remember that he clearly spoke this oath, then, no matter what it was about, when he learns of it, he is guilty.

5 A person guilty of any of these things is to confess in what manner he sinned

6 and bring his guilt offering to the LORD(Jesus) for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a young goat as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.

7 If he can't afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD(Jesus), for his sin which he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons: one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.

8 And he is to bring them to the priest, who will offer the one for a sin offering first. He is to wring its neck but not remove the head,

9 and is to splash some of the blood of the sin offering against the side of the altar; the rest of the blood must be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.

10 Then the priest must offer the second bird as a whole burnt offering, as the law says. In this way the priest will remove in which they have committed, and they will be forgiven.

11 If, however, he cannot afford two doves or two young pigeons, he is to bring as an offering for his sin a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour for a sin offering. He must not put oil or incense on it, because it is a sin offering.

12 Then he is to bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as a reminder portion, and burn it on the altar according to the offerings made by fire to the LORD(Jesus). It is a sin offering.

13 The priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin that he has committed in any of these matters; and it shall be forgiven him. The rest shall be the priest’s as a grain offering.’

14 Then the LORD(Jesus) spoke to Moses, saying:

15 If anyone acts improperly and inadvertently sins in regard to the holy things of the LORD(Jesus), he is to bring as his guilt offering for the LORD(Jesus) a ram without defect from the flock or its value in silver must be correct as set by the Holy standard measure. It is a penalty offering.

16 In addition, he is to make restitution for whatever he did wrong in regard to the holy thing; moreover, he is to add to that one-fifth and give it to the priest. So the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.

17 If anyone sins and does what is forbidden in any of the commandments of the LORD(Jesus), even though they do not know it, they are guilty and will be held responsible.

18 They are to bring to the priest as a guilt offering a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value. In this way the priest will make atonement for them for the wrong they have committed unintentionally, and they will be forgiven.

19 It is a guilt offering - he is certainly guilty before the LORD(Jesus).

Leviticus 6 “and He called” 6

1 The LORD(Jesus) said to Moses:

2 A person might sin against the LORD(Jesus) by doing one of these sins: He might lie about what happened to something he was taking care of for someone else, or he might lie about a promise he made. He might steal something or cheat someone.

3 He might find something that had been lost and then lie about it. He might make a promise before the LORD(Jesus) about something and not mean it, or he might do some other sin.

4 If he does any of these things, he is guilty of sin. He must bring back whatever he stole or whatever he took by cheating. He must bring back the thing he took care of for someone else. He must bring back what he found and lied about

5 or what he made a false promise about. He must pay the full price plus an extra one-fifth of the value of what he took. He must give the money to the true owner on the day he brings his penalty offering.

6 He must bring his penalty to the priest—a male sheep from the flock, one that does not have anything wrong with it and that is worth the correct amount. It will be a penalty offering to the LORD(Jesus).

7 Then the priest will perform the acts to remove that person's sin so he will belong to the LORD(Jesus), and the LORD(Jesus) will forgive him for the sins that made him guilty.

The Whole Burnt Offering

8 The LORD(Jesus) said to Moses:

9 Give this command to Aaron and the priests: 'These are the teachings about the whole burnt offering: The burnt offering must stay on the altar all night until morning, and the altar's fire must be kept burning.

10 The priest must put on his linen robe and linen underclothes next to his body. Then he will remove the ashes from the burnt offering on the altar and put them beside the altar.

11 Then he must take off those clothes and put on others and carry the ashes outside the camp to a special clean place.

12 But the fire must be kept burning on the altar; it must not be allowed to go out. The priest must put more firewood on the altar every morning, place the whole burnt offering on the fire, and burn the fat of the fellowship offerings.

13 The fire must be kept burning on the altar all the time; it must not go out.

This is the good news of the Burnt Offering: whether we are Jew or Gentile, we are all under God's judgement because of our evil thinking, speaking and doing. However, the Lord Jesus, "Who did no sin, neither was there any deceit found in His mouth" (I Peter 2:22) became the offering slaughtered in our place. By believing in His death, "carrying up our sins in His body onto the tree" (I Peter 2:24), we can be made acceptable to God, restored to the Shepherd and to His flock (I Peter 2:25). Then we can enter into His courts with praise and thanksgiving (Psalm 100:3-4).

The Grain Offering

The Grain Offering was made from fine flour mingled with oil, plus salt and frankincense.

The fine flour speaks of the humanity of Jesus; the oil speaks of the Holy Spirit of God; the salt speaks of the purity of the offering; the frankincense speaks of the fragrance of the offering.

The Grain Offering is a type of the Lord Jesus as a genuine man, the son of man, filled with the Holy Spirit (Luke 4:1).

14 These are the teachings about the grain offering: The priests must bring it to the LORD(Jesus) in front of the altar.

15 The priest must take a handful of fine flour, with the oil and all of the incense on it, and burn the grain offering on the altar as a memorial offering to the LORD(Jesus). Its smell is pleasing to him.

16 Aaron and the priests may eat what is left, but it must be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They must eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of the Church.

17 It must not be cooked with yeast. I have given it as their share of the offerings made to me by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the penalty offering.

18 Any male descendant of Aaron may eat it as his share of the offerings made to the LORD(Jesus) by fire, and this will continue from now on. Whatever touches these offerings shall become holy.'

19 The LORD(Jesus) said to Moses:

20 This is the offering Aaron and the priests must bring to the LORD(Jesus) on the day they appoint Aaron as high priest: They must bring two quarts of fine flour for a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.

21 The fine flour must be mixed with olive oil and cooked on a griddle. Bring it when it is well mixed. Present the grain offering that is broken into pieces, and it will be a smell that is pleasing to the LORD(Jesus).

22 One of the priests appointed to take Aaron's place as high priest must make the grain offering. It is a rule forever that the grain offering must be completely burned to the LORD(Jesus).

23 Every grain offering made by a priest must be completely burned; it must not be eaten.

The Sin Offering

24 The LORD(Jesus) said to Moses:

25 Tell Aaron and the priests: 'These are the teachings about the sin offering: The sin offering must be killed in front of the LORD(Jesus) in the same place the whole burnt offering is killed; it is most holy.

26 The priest who offers the sin offering must eat it in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tabernacle.

27 Whatever touches the meat of the sin offering must be holy, and if the blood is sprinkled on any clothes, you must wash them in a holy place.

28 The clay pot the meat is cooked in must be broken, or if a bronze pot is used, it must be scrubbed and rinsed with water.

29 Any male in a priest's family may eat the offering; it is most holy.

30 But if the blood of the sin offering is taken into the Holy Tent of the Tabernacle and used to remove sin in the Holy Place, that sin offering must be burned with fire. It must not be eaten.

The Sin Offering is indicated for our general sinful condition before God (Lev.5:13) and also for unintentional sins (Lev.4:1,27), especially by leaders or by the people as a whole (Lev.4:3,13,22), but also for individuals among God's people (Lev.4:27).

The good news of the Sin Offering is that Christ has fulfilled the sin offering, once for all:

"Christ was manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself" (Hebrews 9:26)

"He who knew no sin was made sin for us" (II Corinthians 5:21)

"God sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so He condemned sin in sinful man" (Romans 8:3).

Leviticus 7 “and He called” 7

The guilt Offering (see note chapter 5)

1 This is the law for the guilt offering: it is especially holy:

2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the guilt (trespass) offering. And its blood he shall sprinkle all around on the altar.

3 He must offer all the fat from the guilt offering—the fat tail, the fat that covers the inner organs,

4 both kidneys with the fat that is on them near the lower back muscle, and the best part of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.

5 The priest must burn all these things on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD(Jesus). It is a guilt offering.

6 Any male in a priest's family may eat it. It is most holy, so it must be eaten in a holy place.

7 The guilt offering is like the sin offering in that the teachings are the same for both. The priest who offers the sacrifice to remove sins will get the meat for food.

It is important to understand that a major purpose for sacrifices where to cover sin AND feed and cloth the priests and their families, as well as provide “clean” meat for the people.

8 The priest who offers the burnt offering may also have the skin from it.

9 Every grain offering that is baked in an oven, cooked on a griddle, or baked in a dish belongs to the priest who offers it.

10 Every grain offering, either dry or mixed with olive oil, belongs to the priests, and all priests will share alike.

The Fellowship Offering (see note in chapter 3)

11 This is the law for sacrificing fellowship (peace) offerings offered to the LORD(Jesus):

12 If he brings the fellowship offering to show his thanks, he should also bring loaves of bread made without yeast that are mixed with olive oil, wafers made without yeast that have oil poured over them, and loaves of fine flour that are mixed with olive oil.

13 He must also offer loaves of bread made with yeast along with his fellowship offering, which he gives to show thanks.

14 One of each kind of offering will be for the LORD(Jesus); it will be given to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the fellowship offering.

15 When the fellowship offering is given to thank the LORD(Jesus), the meat from it must be eaten the same day it is offered; none of it must be left until morning.

16 If a person brings a fellowship offering just to give a gift to God(Elohim/Theos) or because of a special promise (vow) to him, the sacrifice should be eaten the same day he offers it. If there is any left, it may be eaten the next day.

17 If any meat from this sacrifice is left on the third day, it must be burned up.

The 3^rd day as a reference to Christ!

18 Any meat of the fellowship offering eaten on the third day will not be accepted, nor will the sacrifice count for the person who offered it. It will become unclean, and anyone who eats the meat will be guilty of sin.

19 You must not eat meat that touches anything unclean; if so, you must burn this meat with fire. Anyone who is clean may eat other meat.

20 But if anyone is unclean and eats the meat from the fellowship offering that belongs to the LORD(Jesus), he must be cut off (ex-communicated) from his people.

21 If anyone touches something unclean—uncleanness that comes from people, from an animal, or from some hated thing—touching it will make him unclean. If he then eats meat from the fellowship offering that belongs to the LORD(Jesus), he must be cut off from his people.

22 The LORD(Jesus) said to Moses:

23 Tell the people of Israel: 'You must not eat any of the fat from cattle, sheep, or goats.

We are not to eat the fat that surrounds the organs. That fat is meant to be burned to God. Plus, it is bad for you!

24 If an animal is found dead or torn by wild animals, you may use its fat for other things, but you must not eat it.

25 If someone eats fat from an animal offering made by fire to the LORD(Jesus), he must be cut off from his people.

26 No matter where you live, you must not eat blood from any bird or animal.

We are never to eat blood (which is the life of all souls or animals) blood is sacred to God. This is maintained even by the Apostles in Acts 15. That is how important it is. Blood is the physical form of the Holy Spirit. Man is made of blood, God, the Holy Spirit. Blood is very important symbol to God and we should never treat blood in a disrespectful way. I think blood should be burned!

27 Anyone who eats blood must be cut off from his people.'

28 The LORD(Jesus) said to Moses:

29 Tell the people of Israel: 'If someone brings a fellowship offering to the LORD(Jesus), he must give part of it as his sacrifice to the LORD(Jesus).

30 He must carry that part of the gift in his own hands as an offering made by fire to the LORD(Jesus). He must bring the fat and the breast of the animal to the priest, to be presented to the LORD(Jesus) as the priests' share.

This is a tithe for the priest to live on.....

31 Then the priest must burn the fat on the altar, but the breast of the animal will belong to Aaron and the priests.

32 You must also give the right thigh from the fellowship offering to the priest as a gift;

33 it will belong to the priest who offers the blood and fat of the fellowship offering.

34 I have taken the breast and the thigh from the fellowship offerings of the Israelites, and I have given these parts to Aaron and the priests as their share for all time from the Israelites.'

35 This is the portion that belongs to Aaron and his sons from the offerings made by fire to the LORD(Jesus). They were given this share on the day they were presented to the LORD(Jesus) as priests.

36 On the day the LORD(Jesus) appointed the priests, he commanded Israel to give this share to them, and it is to be given to the priests as their share from now on and forever.

37 This is the law for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the consecration offering and the sacrifice of fellowship offerings

38 The LORD(Jesus) gave these teachings to Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the LORD(Jesus) in the Sinai Desert.

Verse 38 is probably a editorial comment by Ezra. Ezra canonized the Old testament, and it is he the edited and added notes above Moses' notes. It is he, that relates the death of Moses, not Joshua or Moses himself. See additional note in Ezra-Nehemiah.

As to the peace-offerings, in the expression of their sense of mercy, God left them more at liberty, than in the expression of their sense of sin; that their sacrifices, being free-will offerings, might be the more acceptable, while, by obliging them to bring the sacrifices of atonement, God shows the necessity of the great Propitiation. The main reason why blood was forbidden of old, was because the Lord had appointed blood for an atonement. This use, being figurative, had its end in Christ, who by his death and blood-shedding caused the sacrifices to cease. Therefore this law is not now in force on believers. (Matthew Henry)

Leviticus 8 “and He called” 8

Moses Consecrates Aaron and His Sons:

1 The LORD(Jesus) said to Moses:

2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and their garmets, the special olive oil used in appointing people and things to the service of the LORD(Jesus), the bull of the sin offering and the two male sheep, and the basket of matzoh (unleavened bread).

3 And gather all the congregation together at the door of the tabernacle of the church.

4 Moses did as the LORD(Jesus) commanded him, and the people met together at the entrance to the Tabernacle.

5 Then Moses spoke to the people and said, "This is what the LORD(Jesus) has commanded to be done:"

6 Bringing Aaron and his sons forward, Moses washed them with water.

A foreshadow of baptism

7 He put the inner robe on Aaron and tied the cloth belt around him. Then Moses put the outer robe on him and placed the holy vest on him. He tied the skillfully woven belt around him so that the holy vest was tied to Aaron.

8 Then Moses put the chest covering on him and put the Urim and the Thummim in the chest covering.

The Urim "lights" and Thummim "perfections" were gemstones that were carried by the High Priest of Israel on the ephod / priestly garments. They were used by the High Priest to determine God's will in some situations. Some propose that God would cause the Urim and Thummim to light up in varying patterns to reveal His decision. Others propose that the Urim and Thummim were kept in a pouch and were engraved with symbols identifying yes / no and true / false.

It is unclear whether the Urim and Thummim were on, by, or in the High Priest's ephod. No one knows the precise nature of the Urim and Thummim or exactly how they were used. The Bible simply does not give us enough information. References to the Urim and Thummim are rare in the Bible. They are first mentioned in the description of the breastplate of judgment (Exodus 28:30; Leviticus 8:8). When Joshua succeeded Moses as leader over Israel, he was to receive answers from God by means of the Urim through Eleazar the High Priest (Numbers 27:21). The Urim and Thummim are next mentioned in Moses' dying blessing upon Levi (Deuteronomy 33:8). The following Scripture likely also speak of the Urim and Thummim: Joshua 7:14-18; 1 Samuel 14:37-45; and 2 Samuel 21:1.

9 He also put the turban on Aaron's head. He put the strip of gold, the holy crown, on the front of the turban, as the LORD(Jesus) commanded him to do.

10 Then Moses put the anointing olive oil on the Tabernacle and everything in it, making them holy for the LORD(Jesus).

11 He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, sprinkling the altar and all its tools and the large bowl and its base. In this way he made them holy for the LORD(Jesus).

12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head to make Aaron holy for the LORD(Jesus).

13 Then Moses brought Aaron's sons forward. He put the inner robes on them, tied cloth belts around them, and put headbands on them, as the LORD(Jesus) had commanded him.

14 Then Moses brought the bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.

15 Moses killed the bull, took the blood, and with his finger put some of it on all the corners of the altar, to make it pure. The remaining blood he poured out at the base of the altar and consecrated it, to make atonement for it.

16 Moses took all the fat from the inner organs of the bull, the best part of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat that is on them, and he burned them on the altar.

17 But he took the bull's skin, its meat, and its intestines and burned them in a fire outside the camp, as the LORD(Jesus) had commanded him.

18 Next Moses brought the male sheep of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.

19 Then Moses killed it and sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.

20 When the ram had been cut in pieces, Moses made the head, the pieces and the fat go up in smoke.

21 When the inner organs and the lower parts of the legs had been washed with water, Moses made the entire ram go up in smoke on the altar; it was a burnt offering giving a fragrant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD(Jesus) - as the LORD(Jesus) had ordered Moses.

22 Then the other ram was presented, the ram of consecration; Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

23 Then Moses killed the sheep and put some of its blood on the bottom of Aaron's right ear, some on the thumb of Aaron's right hand, and some on the big toe of his right foot.

24 Then Moses brought Aaron's sons close to the altar. He put some of the blood on the bottom of their right ears, some on the thumbs of their right hands, and some on the big toes of their right feet. Then he sprinkled blood on all sides of the altar.

25 He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat on the inner organs, the best part of the liver, both kidneys with their fat, and the right thigh.

26 From the basket of matzoh (bread made without yeast) that is put before the LORD(Jesus) each day, Moses took a loaf of bread, a loaf made with oil, and a wafer. He put these pieces of bread on the fat and right thigh of the male sheep.

27 All these things he put in the hands of Aaron and his sons and presented them as an offering before the LORD(Jesus).

28 Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar on top of the burnt offering. So this was the offering for appointing Aaron and his sons as priests. It was an offering made by fire to the LORD(Jesus), and its smell was pleasing to him.

29 Moses also took the breast and presented it as an offering before the LORD(Jesus). It was Moses' share of the male sheep used in appointing the priests, as the LORD(Jesus) had commanded him.

30 Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him; and he consecrated Aaron, his garments, his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.

31 Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of consecration offerings, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall eat it.'

32 If any of the meat or bread is left, burn it.

33 And you shall not go outside the door of the Tabernacle for seven days, until the days of your consecration are ended. For seven days he shall consecrate you.

34 The LORD(Jesus) commanded the things that were done today to remove your sins so you will belong to him.

35 You are to remain at the entrance to the Tabernacle day and night for seven days, thereby obeying what the LORD(Jesus)'ordered done, so that you may not die. For this is what I was ordered."

36 So Aaron and his sons did everything the LORD(Jesus) had commanded through Moses.

The consecration of Aaron and his sons had been delayed until the tabernacle had been prepared, and the laws of the sacrifices given. Aaron and his sons were washed with water, to signify that they ought to purify themselves from all sinful dispositions, and ever after to keep themselves pure. Christ washes those from their sins in his own blood whom he makes kings and priests to our God, Re 1:5,6; and those that draw near to God must be washed in pure water, Heb 10:22. The anointing of Aaron was to typify the anointing of Christ with the Spirit, which was not given by measure to him. All believers have received the anointing. (Matthew Henry)

Leviticus 9 “and He called” 9

The Office of The Priests:

1 On the eighth day, Moses called for Aaron and his sons and for the elders of Israel.

2 He said to Aaron, "Take a bull calf and a male sheep without defect, and offer them to the LORD(Jesus). The calf will be a sin offering, and the male sheep will be a whole burnt offering.

3 Tell the people of Israel, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and a lamb for a whole burnt offering; each must be one year old, and it must not have any defects.

4 Also take a bull and a male sheep for fellowship offerings, along with a grain offering mixed with oil. Offer all these things to the LORD(Jesus), because the LORD(Jesus) will appear to you today.' "

5 So all the people came to the front of the Tabernacle, bringing the things Moses had commanded them to bring, and they stood before the LORD(Jesus). Hebrews 5:1

6 Moses said, "You have done what the LORD(Jesus) commanded, so you will see the LORD(Jesus)'s glory."

7 Then Moses told Aaron, "Go to the altar and offer sin offerings and whole burnt offerings. Do this to remove your sins and the people's sins so you will belong to God. Offer the sacrifices for the people and perform the acts to remove their sins for them so they will belong to the LORD(Jesus), as the LORD(Jesus) has commanded."

Aaron, unlike Jesus was a sinful man. Our High Priest Jesus is superior to Aaron

8 So Aaron went to the altar and killed the bull calf as a sin offering for himself.

9 Then the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the corners of the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the bottom of the altar.

10 He took the fat, the kidneys, and the best part of the liver from the sin offering and burned them on the altar, in the way the LORD(Jesus) had commanded Moses.

11 The meat and skin he burned outside the camp.

12 Then Aaron killed the animal for the whole burnt offering. His sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.

13 As they gave him the pieces and head of the burnt offering, he burned them on the altar.

14 He also washed the inner organs and the legs of the burnt offering and burned them on top of the burnt offering on the altar.

15 Then he brought the offering that was for the people. He took the goat of the people's sin offering and killed it and offered it for the sin offering, just as he had done the first sin offering.

16 Then he brought the burnt offering and offered it according to the prescribed manner.

17 He also brought the grain offering to the altar. He took a handful of the grain and burned it on the altar, in addition to the morning's burnt offering.

18 He also killed the bull and the male sheep as the fellowship offerings for the people. His sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar,

19 and the fat of the bull and the male sheep—the fat tail, the fat covering the inner organs, the kidneys, and the best part of the liver;

20 And they put the fat on the breasts. Then he burned the fat on the altar;

21 but the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved as a wave offering before the LORD(Jesus) as the priests' share of the offering, as Moses had commanded.

22 Then Aaron lifted his hands toward the people and blessed them. When he had finished offering the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering, he stepped down from the altar.

23 Moses and Aaron went into the Tabernacle. Then they came out and blessed the people, and the LORD(Jesus)'s glory came to all the people.

24 Fire came out from the LORD(Jesus) and burned up the burnt offering and fat on the altar. When the people saw this, they shouted with joy and bowed face down on the ground.

Leviticus 10 “and He called” 10

1 Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before the LORD(Jesus), which he had not commanded them.

Leviticus 10:1-20. NADAB AND ABIHU BURNT. If this incident occurred at the solemn period of the consecrating and dedicating the altar, these young men assumed an office which had been committed to Moses; or if it were some time after, it was an encroachment on duties which devolved on their father alone as the high priest. But the offense was of a far more aggravated nature than such a mere informality would imply. It consisted not only in their venturing unauthorized to perform the incense service--the highest and most solemn of the priestly offices--not only in their engaging together in a work which was the duty only of one, but in their presuming to intrude into the holy of holies, to which access was denied to all but the high priest alone. In this respect, "they offered strange fire before the Lord"; they were guilty of a presumptuous and unwarranted intrusion into a sacred office which did not belong to them. But their offense was more aggravated still; for instead of taking the fire which was put into their censers from the brazen altar, they seem to have been content with common fire and thus perpetrated an act which, considering the descent of the miraculous fire they had so recently witnessed and the solemn obligation under which they were laid to make use of that which was specially appropriated to the service of the altars, they betrayed a carelessness, an irreverence, a want of faith, most surprising and lamentable. A precedent of such evil tendency was dangerous, and it was imperatively necessary, therefore, as well for the priests themselves as for the sacred things, that a marked expression of the divine displeasure should be given for doing that which "God commanded them not." (Jamieson)

2 So fire came down from the LORD(Jesus) and destroyed Nadab and Abihu, and they died in front of the LORD(Jesus).

The expression, "from the Lord," indicates that this fire issued from the most holy place. In the destruction of these two young priests by the infliction of an awful judgment, the wisdom of God observed the same course, in repressing the first instance of contempt for sacred things, as he did at the commencement of the Christian dispensation (Acts 5:1-11).

3 Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD(Jesus) spoke of when he said: 'Among those who approach me I will be proved holy; in the sight of all the people I will be honored.'”

4 Aaron's uncle Uzziel had two sons named Mishael and Elzaphan. Moses said to them, "Come here and pick up your cousins' bodies. Carry them outside the camp away from the front of the Holy Place."

5 So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had commanded.

6 Then Moses said to Aaron and his other sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, "Don't show sadness by tearing your clothes or leaving your hair uncombed. If you do, you will die, and the LORD(Jesus) will be angry with all the people. All the people of Israel, your relatives, may cry loudly about the LORD(Jesus) burning Nadab and Abihu,

7 but you must not even leave the Tabernacle. If you go out of the entrance, you will die, because the LORD(Jesus) has appointed you to his service." So Aaron, Eleazar, and Ithamar obeyed Moses.

8 Then the LORD(Jesus) said to Aaron:

9 You and your sons must not drink wine or beer when you go into the holy place of the Tabernacle. If you do, you will die. This law will continue from now on.

10 You must keep what is holy separate from what is not holy; you must keep what is clean separate from what is unclean.

11 You must teach the people all the laws that the LORD(Jesus) gave to them through Moses.

12 Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, "Eat the part of the grain offering that is left from the sacrifices offered by fire to the LORD(Jesus), but do not add yeast to it. Eat it near the altar because it is most holy.

13 You must eat it in a holy place, because this part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD(Jesus) belongs to you and your sons. I have been commanded to tell you this.

14 Also, you and your sons and daughters may eat the breast and thigh of the fellowship offering that was presented to the LORD(Jesus). You must eat them in a clean place; they are your share of the fellowship offerings given by the Israelites.

15 The people must bring the fat from their animals that was part of the offering made by fire, and they must present it to the LORD(Jesus) along with the thigh and the breast of the fellowship offering. They will be the regular share of the offerings for you and your children, as the LORD(Jesus) has commanded."

16 Then Moses made inquiry about the goat of the sin offering, and—it had already been burned! He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's remaining sons, and said,

17 "Why didn't you eat that goat in a holy place (sanctuary)? It is most holy, and the LORD(Jesus) gave it to you to take away the guilt of the people, to remove their sins so they will belong to the LORD(Jesus).

18 You didn't bring the goat's blood inside the Holy Place. You were supposed to eat the goat in a sanctuary, as I commanded!"

19 But Aaron said to Moses, "Today they brought their sin offering and burnt offering before the LORD(Jesus), but these terrible things have still happened to me! Do you think the LORD(Jesus) would be any happier if I ate the sin offering today?"

20 When Moses heard this, he agreed.

Leviticus 11 “and He called” 11

Clean and Unclean Foods (see note at end of the book of Leviticus)

1 The LORD(Jesus) said to Moses and Aaron:

2 Tell the Israelites this: 'These are the land animals you may eat:

3 You may eat any animal that has split hoofs completely divided and that chews the cud.

4 Some animals only chew the cud or only have split hoofs, and you must not eat them. The camel chews the cud but does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you.

5 The rock badger chews the cud but does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you.

the hyrax, a little animal of the size and general shape of the rabbit, but differing from it in several essential features. It has no tail, singular, long hairs bristling like thorns among the fur on its back; its feet are bare, its nails flat and round, except those on each inner toe of the hind feet, which are sharp and project like an awl. It does not burrow in the ground but frequents the clefts of rocks.

6 The rabbit chews the cud but does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you.

Two species of hare must have been pointed at: the Sinai hare, the hare of the desert, small and generally brown; the other, the hare of Palestine and Syria, about the size and appearance of that known in our own country. Neither the hare nor the coney are really ruminating. They only appear to be so from working the jaws on the grasses they live on. They are not cloven-footed; and besides, it is said that from the great quantity of down upon them, they are very much subject to vermin-- that in order to expel these, they eat poisonous plants, and if used as food while in that state, they are most deleterious[WHITLAW].

7 Now the pig has a split hoof that is completely divided, but it does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.

Ruminating animals by the peculiar structure of their stomachs digest their food more fully than others. It is found that in the act of chewing the cud, a large portion of the poisonous properties of noxious plants eaten by them, passes off by the salivary glands. This power of secreting the poisonous effects of vegetables, is said to be particularly remarkable in cows and goats, whose mouths are often sore, and sometimes bleed, in consequence. Their flesh is therefore in a better state for food, as it contains more of the nutritious juices, is more easily digested in the human stomach, and is consequently more easily assimilated. Animals which do not chew the cud, convert their food less perfectly; their flesh is therefore unwholesome, from the gross animal juices with which they abound, and is apt to produce scorbutic and scrofulous disorders. But the animals that may be eaten are those which "part the hoof as well as chew the cud," and this is another means of freeing the flesh of the animal from noxious substances. "In the case of animals with parted hoofs, when feeding in unfavorable situations a prodigious amount of foetid matter is discharged, and passes off between the toes; while animals with undivided hoofs, feeding on the same ground, become severely affected in the legs, from the poisonous plants among the pasture" [WHITLAW, Code of Health].

8 You must not eat the meat from these animals or even touch their dead bodies; they are unclean for you.

One may touch their LIVE bodies, not dead ones! Hence, we can have dogs, ride camels and horses, etc.

9 Of these that live in the sea or in a river, whatever has fins and scales, you may eat it.

10 But whatever lives in the sea or in a river and does not have fins and scales—including the things that fill the water and all other things that live in it—are an abomination to you!

"The fins and scales are the means by which the excrescences of fish are carried off, the same as in animals by perspiration. I have never known an instance of disease produced by eating such fish; but those that have no fins and scales cause, in hot climates, the most malignant disorders when eaten; in many cases they prove a mortal poison" [WHITLAW]. See the list in the separate clean and unclean note at end of Leviticus.

11 and you must detest them. You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.

12 You must hate anything in the water that does not have fins and scales.

Under this classification frogs, eels, shellfish of all descriptions, were included as unclean; many of the latter (shellfish) enjoy a reputation they do not deserve, and have, when plentifully partaken of, produced effects which have led to a suspicion of their containing something of a poisonous nature.

13 These you shall regard as detestable among the birds. They shall not be eaten; they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

All birds of prey are particularly ranked in the class unclean; all those which feed on flesh and carrion. No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable substances. From our imperfect knowledge of the natural history of Palestine, Arabia, and the contiguous countries at that time, it is not easy to determine exactly what some of the prohibited birds were; although they must have been all well known among the people to whom these laws were given. (Jamieson)

14 the buzzard, the kite of any kind;

15 any kind of raven,

the raven--including the crow, the pie.

16 horned owls, screech owls, sea gulls, any kind of hawk,

the owl--It is generally supposed the ostrich is denoted by the original word.

17 little owls, cormorants, great owls,

18 white owls, desert owls, ospreys,

19 storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes, or bats.

the stork--a bird of benevolent temper and held in the highest estimation in all Eastern countries; it was declared unclean, probably, from its feeding on serpents and other venomous reptiles, as well as rearing its young on the same food.

20 Don't eat insects that have wings and walk on all four feet; they also are to be hated.

Nothing short of a scientific description could convey more accurately the nature "of the locust after its kind." They were allowed as lawful food to the Israelites, and they are eaten by the Arabs, who fry them in olive oil. When sprinkled with salt, dried, smoked, and fried, they are said to taste not unlike red herrings.

21 But you may eat certain insects that have wings and walk on four feet. You may eat those that have legs with joints above their feet so they can jump.

22 These are the insects you may eat: all kinds of locusts, winged locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers.

23 But all other insects that have wings and walk on four feet you are to hate.

24 Those insects will make you unclean, and anyone who touches the dead body of one of these insects will become unclean until evening.

25 Anyone who picks up one of these dead insects must wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.

26 Some animals have split hoofs, but the hoofs are not completely divided; others do not chew the cud. They are unclean for you, and anyone who touches the dead body of one of these animals will become unclean.

27 All that walk on their paws, among the animals that walk on all fours, are unclean for you; whoever touches the carcass of any of them shall be unclean until the evening,

28 Anyone who picks up their dead bodies must wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; these animals are unclean for you.

29 These crawling animals are unclean for you: moles, rats, all kinds of great lizards,

30 geckos, crocodiles, lizards, sand reptiles, and chameleons.

31 These crawling animals are unclean for you; anyone who touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.

32 If an unclean animal dies and falls on something, that item will also become unclean. This includes anything made from wood, cloth, leather, or rough cloth, regardless of its use. Whatever the animal falls on must be washed with water and be unclean until evening; then it will become clean again.

33 If the dead, unclean animal falls into a clay bowl, anything in the bowl will become unclean, and you must break the bowl.

34 If water from the unclean clay bowl gets on any food, that food will become unclean.

35 If any dead, unclean animal falls on something, it becomes unclean. If it is a clay oven or a clay baking pan, it must be broken into pieces. These things will be unclean; they are unclean for you.

36 A spring or well that collects water will stay clean, but anyone who touches the dead body of any unclean animal will become unclean.

37 If a dead, unclean animal falls on a seed to be planted, that seed is still clean.

38 But if you put water on some seeds and a dead, unclean animal falls on them, they are unclean for you.

39 Also, if an animal which you use for food dies, anyone who touches its body will be unclean until evening.

40 Anyone who eats meat from this animal's dead body must wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. Anyone who picks up the animal's dead body must wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.

41 Every animal that crawls on the ground is detestable; it shall not be eaten. .

42 You must not eat any of the animals that crawl on the ground, including those that crawl on their stomachs, that walk on all four feet, or on many feet. They are to be hated.

43 Do not make yourself unclean by these animals; you must not become unclean by them.

44 I am the LORD(Jesus) your God(Elohim/Theos). Keep yourselves holy for me because I am holy. Don't make yourselves unclean with any of these crawling animals.

45 I am the LORD(Jesus) who brought you out of Egypt to be your God(Elohim/Theos); you must be holy because I am holy.

46 These are the teachings about all of the cattle, birds, and other animals on earth, as well as the animals in the sea and those that crawl on the ground.

47 These teachings help people know the difference between unclean animals and clean animals; they help people know which animals may be eaten and which ones must not be eaten.

Distinction Between "Clean" and "Unclean."

Biblical Data:

The distinction between clean and unclean animals appears first in Gen. vii. 2-3, 8, where it is said that Noah took into the ark seven and seven, male and female, of all kinds of clean beasts and fowls, and two and two, male and female, of all kinds of beasts and fowls that are not clean. Again, Gen. viii. 20 says that after the flood Noah "took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar that he had built to the Lord." It seems that in the mind of this writer the distinction between clean and unclean animals was intended for sacrifices only; for in the following chapter he makes God say: "Everything that moves shall be food for you" (Gen. ix. 3). In Leviticus (xi. 1-47) and Deuteronomy (xiv. 1-20), however, the distinction between "clean" and "unclean" is made the foundation of a food-law: "This is the law . . . to make a difference between the clean and the unclean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten" (Lev. xi. 46-47). The permitted food is called "clean," "pure" (, ṭahor): the forbidden food is not simply not clean, but is positively unclean, polluted, impure (, ṭame), "an abomination" (, sheḳeẓ). The terminology "clean and unclean" in the food-law has to a certain extent a different implication from that borne by the same terms as used in the sacrificial law

Leviticus 12 “and He called” 12

Rules for New Mothers:

1 The LORD(Jesus) spoke to Moses saying:

2 Tell the people of Israel this: 'If a woman gives birth to a son, she will become unclean for seven days, as she is unclean during her monthly period.

3 On the eighth day the boy must be circumcised.

4 Then it will be thirty-three days before she becomes clean from her loss of blood. She must not touch anything that is holy or enter the Tabernacle until her time of cleansing is finished.

5 But if she gives birth to a daughter, the mother will be unclean for two weeks, as she is unclean during her monthly period. It will be sixty-six days before she becomes clean from her loss of blood.

6 After she has a son or daughter and her days of cleansing are over, the new mother must bring certain sacrifices to the Tabernacle. She must give the priest at the entrance a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a dove or young pigeon for a sin offering.

7 He will offer them before the LORD(Jesus) and make atonement on her behalf; then she shall be clean from her flow of blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, male or female.

8 IIf she cannot afford a sheep, she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement on her behalf, and she shall be clean.

bring two turtles, offering made by Mary, the mother of Jesus, and it affords an incontestable proof of the poor and humble condition of the family (Luke 2:22-24).

WOMAN'S UNCLEANNESS BY CHILDBIRTH.

If a woman, &c.--The mother of a boy was ceremonially unclean for a week, at the end of which the child was circumcised (Genesis 17:12, Romans 4:11-13); the mother of a girl for two weeks (Leviticus 12:5)--a stigma on the sex (1 Timothy 2:14,15) for sin, which was removed by Christ; everyone who came near her during that time contracted a similar defilement. After these periods, visitors might approach her though she was still excluded from the public ordinances of religion [Leviticus 12:4].

6-8. the days of her purifying--Though the occasion was of a festive character, yet the sacrifices appointed were not a peace offering, but a burnt offering and sin offering, in order to impress the mind of the parent with recollections of the origin of sin, and that the child inherited a fallen and sinful nature. The offerings were to be presented the day after the period of her separation had ended--that is, forty-first for a boy, eighty-first for a girl.

bring two turtles, offering made by Mary, the mother of Jesus, and it affords an incontestable proof of the poor and humble condition of the family (Luke 2:22-24).

Leviticus 13 “and He called” 13

Skin Diseases

1 The LORD(Jesus) spoke to Moses and Aaron:

2 Someone might have on his skin a swelling or a rash or a bright spot. If the sore looks like a harmful skin disease, the person must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of Aaron's sons, the priests.

harmful skin disease : A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain. KJV calls this leprosy

3 The priest must look at the sore on the person's skin. If the hair in the sore has become white, and the sore appears deeper than the person's skin, it is a harmful skin disease. When he has completed looking at the person, the priest must declare that the person is unclean.

4 If there is a white spot on a person's skin, but the spot does not seem deeper than the skin, and if the hair from the spot has not turned white, the priest must isolate that person from other people for seven days.

5 On the seventh day the priest must look at the person once more. If he observes that the sore hasn't changed and it hasn't spread on the skin, the priest must keep the person isolated for seven more days.

6 On the seventh day the priest must look at the person again. If the sore has faded and has not spread on the skin, the priest must declare that the person has become clean. The sore is only a rash. The person must wash his clothes, and will become clean again.

7 But if the skin eruption spreads again after the priest has announced him clean, the person must come again to the priest.

8 The priest must look at him, and if the rash has spread on the skin, the priest must declare that the person is unclean; it is a harmful skin disease.

9 If a person contracts a harmful skin disease, he must be brought to the priest,

10 and the priest must inspect him. If there is a white swelling in the skin, and the hair has become white, and the skin looks raw in the swelling,

11 it is a harmful skin disease. It is one he has had for a long time. The priest must declare that the person is unclean. He will not need to quarantine that person from other people, because everyone already knows that the person is unclean.

12 If the skin disease spreads all over a person's body, covering his skin from his head to his feet, as far as the priest can see, the priest must look at the person's whole body.

13 If the priest sees that the disease covers the whole body and has turned all of the person's skin white, he must declare that the person is clean.

14 But when the person has an open sore, he is unclean.

15 When the priest sees the open sore, he must announce that the person is unclean. The open sore is not clean; it is a harmful skin disease.

16 If the open sore turns white again, the person must come to the priest.

17 The priest must inspect him, and if the sores have become white, the priest must declare that the person with the sores is clean. Then he will be clean.

18 When there is on the skin of one's body a boil that has healed,

19 and in the place of the boil there appears a white swelling or a reddish-white spot, it shall be shown to the priest.

20 The priest must examine it. If the spot seems deeper than the skin and the hair on it has become white, the priest must announce that the person is unclean. The spot is a harmful skin disease that has broken out from inside the boil.

21 But if the priest inspects the spot and there are no white hairs in it and the spot is not deeper than the skin and it has faded, the priest must quarantine the person from other people for seven days.

22 If it spreads in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is diseased.

23 But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread, it is the scar of the boil; the priest shall pronounce him clean.

24 When the body has a burn on the skin and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a spot, reddish-white or white,

25 the priest must examine it. If the white spot seems deeper than the skin and the hair at that spot has become white, it is a harmful skin disease. The disease has broken out in the burn, and the priest must announce that the person is unclean. It is a harmful skin disease.

26 But if the priest examines the spot and there is no white hair in the bright spot, and the spot is no deeper than the skin and has faded, the priest must quarantine the person from other people for seven days.

27 On the seventh day the priest examine him again. If the spot has spread on the skin, the priest must announce that the person is unclean. It is a harmful skin disease.

28 But if the bright spot has not spread on the skin but has faded, it is the swelling from the burn. The priest must announce that the person is clean, because the spot is only a scar from the burn.

29 When a man or a woman gets a infection on the scalp or on the chin,

30 a priest must look at the the infection. If it seems deeper than the skin and the hair around it is thin and yellow, the priest must announce that the person is unclean. It is an itch, a harmful skin disease of the head or chin.

31 But if the priest examines it and it does not seem deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, the priest must quarantine that person from other people for seven days.

32 On the seventh day the priest must inspect the sore. If it has not spread, and there are no yellow hairs growing in it, and the sore does not seem deeper than the skin,

33 the person must shave himself, but he must not shave the infected area. The priest must quarantine the person from the others for seven more days.

34 On the seventh day the priest shall examine the sore; if it has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.

35 But if it spreads on the skin after the person has been pronounced clean,

36 the priest must examine the person again. If the sore has spread on the skin, the priest doesn't need to look for the yellowish hair; the person is unclean.

37 But if in his eyes the infection is curbed, and black hair has grown in it, the itch is healed, he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

38 When a man or a woman has white spots on the skin,

39 a priest must look at them. If the spots on the skin are dull white, the disease is only a harmless rash. That person is clean.

40 When anyone loses hair from his head and is bald, he is clean.

41 If he loses hair from the front of his head and has a bald forehead, he is clean.

42 But if there is a red-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is a skin disease breaking out in those places.

43 A priest must examine that person. If the swelling of the sore on his bald head or forehead is red-white, like a skin disease that spreads,

44 that person has a skin disease. He is unclean. The priest must announce that the person is unclean because of the sore on his head.

45 If a person has a skin disease that spreads, he must warn other people by shouting, 'Unclean, unclean!' His clothes must be torn at the seams, he must let his hair stay uncombed, and he must cover his mouth.

46 That person will be unclean the whole time he has the disease; he is unclean. He must live alone outside the camp.

God, the best doctor that there is, orders us to quarantine those that have infectious diseases from the others, and to even announce the fact to everyone! This is the proper hygienic practice that any good doctor will still follow today.

Rules About Mildew

47 Concerning clothing, they might have mildew on them. It might be clothing made of linen or wool

48 whether it is in warp, or woof; of linen, or of wool; whether in leather.

49 If the mildew in the clothing, leather, or woven or knitted material is green or red, it is a spreading mildew. It must be shown to the priest.

50 The priest must inspect the mildew, and he must put that piece of clothing in a separate place for seven days.

51 On the seventh day he must look at the mildew again. If the mildew has spread on the cloth (either woven or knitted) or the leather, no matter what the leather was used for, it is a mildew that destroys; it is unclean.

52 The priest must burn the clothing. It does not matter if it is woven or knitted, wool or linen, or made of leather, because the mildew is spreading. It must be burned.

53 If the priest sees that the mildew has not spread in the cloth (either knitted or woven) or leather,

54 he must order the people to wash that piece of leather or cloth. Then he must separate the clothing for seven more days.

55 The priest must inspect the diseased article after it has been washed. If the diseased spot has not changed color, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in fire, whether the spot is on the inside or on the outside.

56 If the priest makes an examination, and the disease has abated after it is washed, he shall tear the spot out of the cloth, in warp or woof, or out of leather.

57 If it appears again in the garment, in warp or woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading; you shall burn with fire that in which the disease appears.

58 When the woven or knitted cloth; or the leather is washed and the mildew is gone, it must be washed again; then it will be clean.

59 These are the teachings about mildew on pieces of cloth or leather, to decide if they are clean or unclean.

Leviticus 14 “and He called” 14

Rules for Cleansing from Skin Diseases:

1 The LORD(Jesus) spoke to Moses, saying:

2 This shall be the law for harmful skin diseases so they can be made clean.

The person shall be brought to the priest,

3 and the priest must go outside the camp and examine it. If the skin disease is healed,

4 the priest will command that two living clean birds, and cedarwood and crimson yarn, and a hyssop plant be brought for cleansing the person who is to be cleansed.

two birds--literally, "sparrows." The Septuagint, however, renders the expression "little birds"; and it is evident that it is to be taken in this generic sense from their being specified as "clean"--a condition which would have been altogether superfluous to mention in reference to sparrows. In all the offerings prescribed in the law, Moses ordered only common and accessible birds; and hence we may presume that he points here to such birds as sparrows or pigeons, as in the desert it might have been very difficult to procure wild birds alive. (Jamieson)

5 The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.

6 He shall take the living bird with the cedarwood and the crimson yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.

The cedar here meant was certainly not the famous tree of Lebanon, and it is generally supposed to have been the juniper, as several varieties of that shrub are found growing abundantly in the clefts and crevices of the Sinaitic mountains. A stick of this shrub was bound to a bunch of hyssop by a scarlet ribbon, and the living bird was to be so attached to it, that when they dipped the branches in the water, the tail of the bird might also be moistened, but not the head nor the wings, that it might not be impeded in its flight when let loose. (Jamieson)

(See 2 Kings 5:10, Psalms 51:2, Matthew 8:4, Luke 5:14).

7 The priest will sprinkle the blood seven times on the person being cleansed from the disease. He must declare that the person is clean and let it go in an open field.

8 The one to be cleansed must wash their clothes, shave off all their hair, and bathe in water. Then he will be clean and may go into the camp, but he must live outside his tent for the first seven days.

9 On the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair—the hair from his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. Then he must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.

10 On the eighth day they must take two male lambs that have nothing wrong with them and a year-old female lamb that has nothing wrong with it. They must also take six quarts of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering and two-thirds of a pint of olive oil.

11 The priest who is to declare that the person is clean, must bring him and his sacrifices before the LORD(Jesus) at the entrance of the Tabernacle.

12 The priest must take one of the male lambs and offer it with the olive oil as a penalty offering; he will present them before the LORD(Jesus) as a wave offering.

13 He shall slaughter the lamb in the place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered in the holy place; for the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest: it is most holy.

14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot.

15 Then the priest will take some of the olive oil and pour it into his own left hand.

16 He will dip a finger of his right hand into the olive oil that is in his left hand, and with his finger he will sprinkle some of the oil seven times before the LORD(Jesus).

17 The priest will put some olive oil from his hand on the bottom of the right ear of the person to be made clean, some on the thumb of the person's right hand, and some on the big toe of the person's right foot. The olive oil will go on these places on top of the blood for the penalty offering.

18 Finally, the priest is to put the rest of the olive oil in his hand on the head of the person being purified; and the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD(Jesus) again.

19 The priest will offer the sin offering and make atonement for the person being purified because of his uncleanness; afterwards, he is to slaughter the burnt offering.

20 and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement on his behalf and he shall be clean.

21 If he is poor, so that he can't afford to do otherwise, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him; two quarts of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering; two-thirds of a pint of olive oil;

22 and two doves or two young pigeons, which he can afford. One bird is for a sin offering and the other for a whole burnt offering.

23 On the eighth day the person will bring them for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance of the Tabernacle, before the LORD(Jesus).

24 The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering and the olive oil, and he will present them as an offering before the LORD(Jesus).

25 He is to slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of the person being purified, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

26 He will also pour some of the olive oil into his own left hand.

27 Then with a finger of his right hand, he will sprinkle some of the olive oil from his left hand seven times before the LORD(Jesus).

28 The priest will take some of the oil from his hand and put it on the bottom of the right ear of the person he cleansed. He will also put some of it on the thumb of the person's right hand and some on the big toe of the person's right foot. The olive oil will go on these places on top of the blood from the guilt offering.

29 The priest must put the rest of the olive oil that is in his hand on the head of the person being purified, to make atonement for him before the LORD(Jesus).

30 Then the priest will offer one of the doves or young pigeons, such as he can afford.

31 whatever his means suffice for - the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering - with the grain offering; thus the priest will make atonement before the LORD(Jesus) again; he will become clean.

32 These are the laws for making a person clean after he has had a skin disease, if he cannot afford the regular sacrifices for becoming clean.

(Acts 10:34).

33 The LORD(Jesus) spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

34 When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and if I cause mildew to grow in someone's house in that land,

35 the owner of that house must come and tell the priest. He should say, ''It seems to me that there may be an infection in the house,'

36 Then the priest must command the people to empty the house before he goes in to look at the infection or mildew. This is so he will not have to say that everything in the house is unclean. After this, the priest will go in to look at it.

37 He will look at the infection of mildew, and if the mildew on the walls of the house is green or red and goes into the wall's surface,

38 he must go out and close up the house for seven days.

39 On the seventh day the priest must come back and check the house. If the mildew has spread on the walls,

40 he is to order them to remove the infected stones and throw them into some unclean place outside the city.

41 Next, he is to have the inside of the house thoroughly scraped, and the scraped-off plaster is to be discarded outside the city in an unclean place.

42 Then new stones are to be replaced in the walls, and he must cover the walls with new clay plaster.

43 If the disease of mildew breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,

44 the priest must come back and inspect the house again. If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a mildew that destroys things; the house is unclean.

45 Then the owner must have the house torn down, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.

46 All who enter the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening;

47 Anyone who eats in that house or lies down there must wash his clothes.

48 If the priest comes and makes an inspection, and the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, the priest shall pronounce the house clean; the disease is healed.

49 To purify the house, he is to take two birds, cedarwood, scarlet yarn and hyssop leaves.

50 He is to slaughter one of the birds in a clay bowl over running water.

51 Then he will take the bird that is still alive, the cedarwood, the hyssop, and the red string, and he will dip them into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. The priest will then sprinkle the blood on the house seven times.

52 He will purify the house with the blood of the bird, the running water, the live bird, the cedar-wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn.

53 He will then go to an open field outside the city and let the living bird go free. This is how the priest makes the house clean and ready for service to the LORD(Jesus)."

54 These are the laws about any kind of skin disease,

55 mildew on pieces of cloth or in a house,

56 swellings, rashes, or bright spots on the skin;

57 to determine when it is clean and when it is unclean. This is the law concerning diseases.

Mildew- disease- infection all from the same Hebrew word “tzara'at”

Leviticus 15 “and He called” 15

Sexual discharges:

1 The LORD(Jesus) spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

2 Say to the people of Israel: 'When a fluid comes from a man's body, this discharge is unclean.

3 The discharge is unclean no matter whether it continues flowing or has stopped; it is still his uncleanness.

4 Every bed which the person with the discharge lies on is unclean, and everything he sits on is unclean.

5 Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and the person will be unclean until evening.

6 Whoever sits on anything that the person who discharges the fluid sat on must wash his clothes and bathe in water; he will be unclean until evening.

7 Anyone who touches the person who discharges the body fluid must wash his clothes and bathe in water; he will be unclean until evening.

8 If the person with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, the latter is to wash his clothes and bathe himself in water; he will be unclean until evening.

9 Any saddle(seat of any kind) that the person with the discharge rides on will be unclean.

10 Anyone who touches something that was under him will be unclean until evening. And anyone who carries these things must wash his clothes and bathe in water; he will be unclean until evening.

11 If the person who discharges a body fluid has not washed his hands in water and touches another person, that person must wash his clothes and bathe in water; he will be unclean until evening.

12 If a person who discharges a body fluid touches a clay bowl, that bowl must be broken. If he touches a wooden bowl, that bowl must be washed in water.

13 When the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, he shall count seven days for his cleansing; he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in fresh water, and he shall be clean.

14 On the eighth day he must take two doves or two young pigeons before the LORD(Jesus) at the entrance of the Tabernacle. He will give the two birds to the priest.

15 The priest will offer the birds, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest will make that person clean so he can belong to the LORD(Jesus).

16 If a man has a seminal emission, he is to bathe his entire body in water; he will be unclean until evening.

17 Any clothing or leather on which there is any semen is to be washed with water; it will be unclean until evening.

18 If a man goes to bed with a woman and has sexual relations, both are to bathe themselves in water; they will be unclean until evening.

Laws about Woman monthly period:

19 If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body is blood, she will be in her state of uncleanness for seven days. Whoever touches her will be unclean until evening.

20 Anything she lies on during this time will be unclean, and everything she sits on during this time will be unclean.

21 Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe in water; that person will be unclean until evening.

22 Anyone who touches something she has sat on must wash his clothes and bathe in water; that person will be unclean until evening.

23 It does not matter if the person touched the woman's bed or something she sat on; he will be unclean until evening.

24 If a man has sex with her, and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean seven days; and every bed he lies on will be unclean.

25 But, if a woman has a loss of blood for many days and it is not during her regular monthly period, or if she continues to have a loss of blood after her regular period, she will be unclean, as she is during her monthly period. She will be unclean for as long as she continues to bleed.

See Luke 8:43

26 Every bed she lies on during the time of her bleeding will be the same as her regular monthly period. Everything she sits on will be unclean, as during her regular monthly period.

27 Whoever touches those things will be unclean and must wash his clothes and bathe in water; he will be unclean until evening.

28 When the woman becomes clean from her bleeding, she must wait seven days, and after this she will be clean.

29 Then on the eighth day she must take two doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tabernacle.

30 The priest is to offer one bird for a sin offering and the other for a whole burnt offering. In this way the priest will make her clean so she can belong to the LORD(Jesus) again.

31 In this way you will separate the people of Israel from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in a state of uncleanness for defiling my Tabernacle which is there with them.

32 These are the laws for the person who discharges a body fluid and for the man who becomes unclean from semen proceeding out of his body.

33 for her during her period, for anyone, male or female, who has a discharge, and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean.

UNCLEANNESS OF MEN.

When any man hath a running issue--This chapter describes other forms of uncleanness, the nature of which is sufficiently intelligible in the text without any explanatory comment. Being the effects of licentiousness, they properly come within the notice of the legislator, and the very stringent rules here prescribed, both for the separation of the person diseased and for avoiding contamination from anything connected with him, were well calculated not only to prevent contagion, but to discourage the excesses of licentious indulgence.

9. what saddle . . . he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be

12. the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken--It is thought that the pottery of the Israelites, like the earthenware jars in which the Egyptians kept their water, was unglazed and consequently porous, and that it was its porousness which, rendering it extremely liable to imbibe small particles of impure matter, was the reason why the vessel touched by an unclean person was ordered to be broken.

13, 14. then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing--Like a leprous person he underwent a week's probation, to make sure he was completely healed. Then with the sacrifices prescribed, the priest made an atonement for him, that is, offered the oblations necessary for the removal of his ceremonial defilement, as well as the typical pardon of his sins.

Leviticus 15:19-33. UNCLEANNESS OF WOMEN.

19. if a woman have an issue--Though this, like the leprosy, might be a natural affection, it was anciently considered contagious and entailed a ceremonial defilement which typified a moral impurity. This ceremonial defilement had to be removed by an appointed method of ceremonial expiation, and the neglect of it subjected any one to the guilt of defiling the tabernacle, and to death as the penalty of profane temerity.

31-33. Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness--The divine wisdom was manifested in inspiring the Israelites with a profound reverence for holy things; and nothing was more suited to this purpose than to debar from the tabernacle all who were polluted by any kind of uncleanness, ceremonial as well as natural, mental as well as physical. The better to mark out that people as His family, His servants and priests, dwelling in the camp as in a holy place, consecrated by His presence and His tabernacle, He required of them complete purity, and did not allow them to come before Him when defiled, even by involuntary or secret impurities, as a want of respect due to His majesty. And when we bear in mind that God was training a people to live in His presence in some measure as priests devoted to His service, we shall not consider these rules for the maintenance of personal purity either too stringent or too minute (1 Thessalonians 4:4).

Leviticus 16 “and He called” 16

The Day of Atonement:

1 The LORD(Jesus) spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the LORD(Jesus) and died.

2 The LORD(Jesus) said to Moses: Tell your brother Aaron not to come at just any time into the Holy Place beyond the curtain, in front of the ark-cover(mercy seat) which is on the ark, so that he will not die; because I appear in the cloud over the ark-cover.

3 Here is how Aaron may enter the Most Holy Place: Before he enters, he must offer a bull for a sin offering and a male sheep for a whole burnt offering.

4 He must put on the holy linen inner robe, with the linen underclothes next to his body. His belt will be the cloth belt, and he will wear the linen turban. These are holy clothes, so he must bathe his body in water before he puts them on.

5 He shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

6 Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.

7 Next Aaron will take the two goats and bring them before the LORD(Jesus) at the entrance to the Tabernacle,

8 and Aaron shall cast lots on the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Azazel (scapegoat).

9 Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord, and offer it as a sin offering;

CHRIST!

10 The scapegoat, which was chosen by lot to remove the sin, must be brought alive before the LORD(Jesus). to be used for making atonement over it by sending it away into the desert for Azazel (scapegoat).

The Devil - Satan

11 Then Aaron is to present the bull of the sin offering for himself; he will make atonement for himself and his household; he is to slaughter the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.

12 He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the LORD(Jesus) and two handfuls of sweet incense that has been ground into powder. He must bring it into the room behind the curtain.

13 He must put the incense on the fire before the LORD(Jesus) so that the cloud of incense will cover the lid on the Ark. Then when Aaron comes in, he will not die.

14 Also, he must take some of the blood from the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the ark-cover; with his finger he will sprinkle the blood seven times in front of the ark-cover.

15 Next, he is to slaughter the goat of the sin offering which is for the people, bring its blood inside the curtain and do with its blood as he did with the bull's blood, sprinkling it on the ark-cover and in front of the ark-cover.

16 So he shall make atonement for the sanctuary, because of the uncleanness's of the people of Israel, and because of their transgressions, all their sins; and so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which remains with them in the midst of their uncleanness's.

17 No one shall be in the most holy place in the Tabernacle from the time he enters to make atonement in the sanctuary until he comes out and has made atonement for himself and for his house and for all the assembly of Israel.

18 Then he is to go out to the altar that is before the LORD(Jesus) and make atonement for it; he is to take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood and put it on all the horns of the altar.

19 He is to sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, thus purifying it and setting it apart from the uncleanness's of the people of Israel.

20 When he has finished atoning for the holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat.

21 He will put both his hands on the head of the living goat, and he will confess over it all the sins and crimes of Israel. In this way Aaron will put the people's sins on the goat's head. Then he will send the goat away into the desert, and someone designated for the task will lead the goat away.

Meaning of the word “someone designated” is not clear.

22 So the goat will carry on itself all the people's sins to a lonely place in the desert. The man who leads the goat will let it loose there.

[Hebrews 10:4, 1 John 3:5]. Traditionally it is known that the the crimson-colored strap would become white. Rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot ‘For the Lord’ did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-colored strap become white. A sign that God was no longer pleased with the Jewish or Temple ceremony after the death of Jesus.

23 Then Aaron will enter the most holy part of the Tabernacle and take off the linen clothes he had put on before he went into the Most Holy Place; he must leave these clothes there.

24 Then he is to bathe his body in water in a holy place, put on his other clothes, come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, thus making atonement for himself and for the people.

25 Then he will burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.

26 The person who led the goat, the scapegoat to remove sins, into the desert must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water. After that, he may come back into the camp.

27 The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, is to be carried outside the camp; there they are to burn up completely their hides, meat and manure.

28 Then the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water. After that, he may come back into the camp.

29 This is to be a permanent everlasting law for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you must deny(fast) yourself and you must not do any work, both the citizen and the foreigner living with you.

30 For on this Day of Atonement the priests will make you clean so you will belong to the LORD(Jesus). All your sins will be removed.

31 This is a very important day of rest for you, and you must deny(fast) yourselves. This law will continue forever.

32 The priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father's place shall make atonement, wearing the linen vestments, the holy vestments.

33 He shall make atonement for the sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the Tabernacle and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the church.

34 This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the people of Israel once in the year for all their sins.

And Moses did as the LORD(Jesus) had commanded him.

The Day of Atonement:

The Christian Day of Atonement is based on the English translation of the Jewish Holy day Yom Kippur. In the original Hebrew, the Bible calls the day Yom Hakippurim (Hebrew for "Day of the Atonements").

The day is commemorated with a 25-hour fast by Jews, but normally a 24 hour fast by Christians who observe it. While not observed by the mainstream of professing Christianity, the Christian groups (mostly those with origins in the old Worldwide Church of God) that do observe it usually refer to it as the Day of Atonement.

The Day of Atonement falls from the evening of the ninth day of the seventh month until the evening of the 10^th day of that same month. Some try to use this holy day as proof of an evening day, but in retrospect, the opposite conclusion should be drawn. The evening of the ninth day is just that! The nighttime of the ninth day, until the nighttime of the tenth day. The actual day part of the holy day falls on the tenth. In our family, after the 24 hours of a fast, we have traditionally (not a Biblical ordinance) broke our fast by going to a very fine restaurant on the 10^th at sundown and enjoyed a very festive meal and wine.

The holiday is one of the most important days in the year and it is the time that we symbolically go to the throne of God in humble sorrow and pray to be forgiven, knowing that Christ blood is now atoning for our sins. The slain goat represents Christ who actually dies for our sins. (Leviticus 16:15-19). Christ's sacrifice is an atonement sacrifice to reconcile us to God. Notice what the Apostle Paul wrote:

“Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.”(2 Corinthians 5:18-19). Although many Protestant commentators seem to misunderstand these passages in Leviticus, the live goat does not also somehow represent Jesus Christ. Notice what happens immediately after the atoning from the death of the first goat: “And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the tabernacle of meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat. Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man. The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness...And he who released the goat as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp” (Leviticus 16:20-22,26).

Notice that the atonement is over after the first goat is sacrificed. The atonement is not part of the symbolism of the second goat. While many Protestant commentators either do not know what the Azazel goat represents or think it represents the physical life of Christ, the latter explanation would not seem to be consistent with the statements in Leviticus 16:26 “And he who released the goat as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp” (Leviticus 16:20-22,26). The term scapegoat is an inappropriate translation into English, as it implies that blame is being placed where blame is not due. The Hebrew term is actually Azazel. This is a term that some Jewish people have historically ascribed to a Satanic adversary. What happens with the Azazel goat and what happens to Satan is quite similar, if one compares Leviticus 16:20-22,26 to Revelation 20:1-3.

The Day of Atonement in New Testament Times:

Acts 27:9-11... Sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was already past, that is, the famous yearly fast of the Jews, the day of atonement, which was on the tenth day of the seventh month, a day to afflict the soul with fasting

Acts 27:8-9... The fast to which Luke refers is the Day of Atonement

The idea that Luke used that term for a Christian audience (Acts 1:1) indicates that the Day of Atonement was known and observed by early Christians.

The Day of Atonement is significant for Christians today. It pictures Christ's sacrifice for our sins and that Satan will be sent away as the scapegoat. Satan, in a way is being blamed by God for many sins that maybe we ourselves should be held accountable for. While others professing Christianity somewhat understand this, because they do not keep this and the other Christian Holy Days, they often do not have a proper view of God's plan of salvation, such as the role of Satan and Christ. The Day of Atonement pictures not only what has happened with Christ's sacrifice for us some 2,000 years ago; but some of what will happen with Satan in the future and how as part of the true church, we are to honor this holiday today, more than ever.

Leviticus 17 “ and He called” 17

1 The LORD(Jesus) spoke to Moses:

2 Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the people of Israel and say to them: This is what the Lord has commanded.

3 If an Israelite kills an ox, a lamb, or a goat either inside the camp or outside it,

4 when he should have brought the animal to the entrance of the Tabernacle as a gift to the LORD(Jesus) in front of the LORD(Jesus)'s Holy Tabernacle, he is guilty of killing. He has killed, and he must be cut off from the people.

5 This rule is so people will bring their sacrifices, which they have been sacrificing in the open fields, to the LORD(Jesus). They must bring those animals to the LORD(Jesus) at the entrance of the Tabernacle; they must bring them to the priest and offer them as fellowship offerings.

6 Then the priest will sprinkle the blood from those animals on the LORD(Jesus)'s altar near the entrance of the Tabernacle. And he will burn the fat from those animals on the altar, as an odor pleasing to the LORD(Jesus).

7 They must not offer any more sacrifices to their goat demons, which they have chased after like prostitutes. These rules will continue for people from now on.'

8 Tell the people this: 'If any citizen of Israel or foreigner living with you offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

9 that person must take his sacrifice to the entrance of the Tabernacle to offer it to the LORD(Jesus). If he does not do this, he must be cut off from the people.'

10 I will be against any citizen of Israel or foreigner living with you who eats blood. I will ex-communicate that person from the people.

11 For the life of any animal is in the blood, and I have given it to you for making atonement for your lives on the altar; for, as life, it is the blood that makes atonement.

12 So I tell the people of Israel this: 'None of you may eat blood, and no foreigner living among you may eat blood.'

13 When someone from the community of Israel or one of the foreigners living with you hunts and catches game, whether animal or bird that may be eaten, he is to pour out its blood and cover it with earth.

14 For the life of every creature—its blood is its life; therefore I have said to the people of Israel: You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.

15 Anyone eating an animal that dies naturally or is torn to death by wild animals, whether he is a citizen or a foreigner, is to wash his clothes and bathe himself in water; he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.

16 If he does not wash his clothes and bathe his body, he will be guilty of sin.

(Exodus 22:31, Leviticus 7:24, Acts 15:20)

Is in the blood - Depends upon the blood, is preserved and nourished by it. The blood maketh atonement - Typically, and in respect of the blood of Christ which it represented, by which the atonement is really made. So the reason is double; because this was eating up the ransom of their own lives, which in construction was the destroying of themselves. because it was ingratitude and irreverence towards that sacred blood of Christ which they ought to have in continual veneration.The value of the "life" is the measure of the value of the "blood." This gives the blood of Christ its inconceivable value. When it was shed the sinless God-man gave His life. "It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats could take away sins" Heb 10:4. t is not the blood in the veins of the sacrifice, but the blood upon the altar which is efficacious. The Scripture knows nothing of salvation by the imitation or influence of Christ's life, but only by that life yielded up on the cross.blood The meaning of all sacrifice is here explained. Every offering was an execution of the sentence of the law upon a substitute for the offender, and every such offering pointed forward to that substitutional death of Christ which alone vindicated the righteousness of God in passing over the sins of those who offered the typical sacrifices Rom 3:24,25 Ex 29:36.

Leviticus 18 “and He called” 18

UNLAWFUL SEX and MARRIAGE:

1 The LORD(Jesus) spoke to Moses:

2 "Tell the people of Israel: 'I am the LORD(Jesus) your God(Elohim/Theos).

This renewed mention of the divine sovereignty over the Israelites was intended remind the Israelites that God's customs were widely different from the social customs that obtained both in Egypt and Canaan. These laws were to keep the people morally right before God.

3 You are not to engage in the activities found in the land of Egypt, where you used to live; and you are not to engage in the activities found in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their customs.

4 You must obey my Laws and follow them! I am the LORD(Jesus) your God(Elohim/Theos).

5 Obey my laws and rules; a person who obeys them will live because of them. I am the LORD(Jesus).

A special blessing is promised to us on condition that we obey God's Laws; and this promise has been verified throughout history, when pure and undefiled religion prevailed among them, in the public prosperity and domestic happiness enjoyed by them as a people. Obedience to the divine law always, indeed, ensures temporal advantages; and this, doubtless, was the primary meaning of the words, "which if a man do, he shall live in them." But that they had a higher reference to spiritual life is evident from the application made of them by our Lord (Luke 10:28) and the apostle (Romans 10:2).

6 You must never have sexual relations with your close relatives. I am the LORD(Jesus).

7 You must not shame your father by having sexual relations with your father or your own mother!

8 You must not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would shame your father.

The KJV here renders this “uncover your father's nakedness”, the same verbiage used with Ham and Noah, showing beyond doubt that this was Ham's sin, having sex with his father's wife, that was not HIS mother!

9 You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either the daughter of your father or your mother. It doesn't matter if she was born in your house or somewhere else.

10 You must not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would bring shame on you.

11 If your father and his wife have a daughter, she is your sister. You must not have sexual relations with her.

12 You must not have sexual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative.

13 You must not have sexual relations with your mother's sister; she is your mother's close relative.

14 You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your father's brother, because this would shame him. She is your aunt.

15 You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife. Do not have sexual relations with her.

16 You must not have sexual relations with your brother's wife. That would shame your brother.

That is while he is alive. If dead, and he has no heirs, you are required to marry her.

17 You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. And do not have sexual relations with this woman's granddaughter, either the daughter of her son or her daughter; they are her close relatives. It is evil to do this.

18 While your wife is still living, you must not take her sister as another wife. Do not have sexual relations with her.

This is the Rachael/Leah addition to the Law. That problem caused so many problems that God wanted to end any more complications. Can a man ever marry two sisters? I find it funny how Biblical scholars dishonestly use this quote against polygamy, or for that matter to say it is against the Law to marry two sisters. This law, unlike that of having sex during a woman's period, IS NOT FOUND before Sinai. The story of Rachel hiding her father's idols by telling him that she is having her period shows that the law of uncleanness was in existence BEFORE SINAI, but not the law against marrying two sisters. In fact, the law of the time allowed Laban to give both daughters to Jacob. I notice how nobody looks at what Jesus says about divorce in comparison to this law. Jesus said Moses allowed divorce (a post-Sinai law) because of the stubbornness of the people, but earlier law did not allow for Mosaic divorce! Everyone like that part of God's word, but with the same logic, this law may fall in the same rule! Possibly, the stubbornness of the people caused this law to be enacted... Just a thought.

19 You must not go near a woman to have sexual relations with her during her monthly period, when she is unclean.

20 You must not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and make yourself unclean with her.

21 You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, because this would show that you do not respect your God(Elohim/Theos). I am the LORD(Jesus).

Eastern text reads: “And you are not to cast your semen into a pagan women, making her pregnant and thus offering this child to Molech

22 You must not have sexual relations with a man as you would a woman. It is an abomination.

HOMOSEXUALITY IS FORBIDDEN!

23 You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it: it is perversion.

24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.

25 This would defiled the nation; and I punished it for its sins, as it threw out the nation that was here before you.

26 You must obey my laws and rules, and you must not do any of these disgusting sins. These rules are for the citizens of Israel and for the people who live with you.

27 For the people of the land have committed all these abominations, and the land is now unclean.

28 If you make the land unclean, it will vomit you out too, just as it is vomiting out the nation that was there before you.

29 For those who engage in any of these disgusting practices, whoever they may be, will be cut off from their people.

30 Keep my command not to do these vile sins that were done by the people who lived in the land before you. Don't make yourself unclean by doing them. I am the LORD(Jesus) your God(Elohim/Theos).

Unlawful marriages and fleshly lusts. - Here is a law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen. Also laws against incest, against brutal lusts, and barbarous idolatries; and the enforcement of these laws from the ruin of the Canaanites. God here gives moral precepts. Close and constant adherence to God's ordinances is the most effectual preservative from gross sin. The grace of God only will secure us; that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor does He ever leave any to their hearts' lusts, till they have left him and his services. (Matthew Henry)

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