Category: Leviticus
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The very best things
Leviticus 3:16 “The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the Lord’s.” Have you ever wondered what in the world the verse above is all about? I have. Then one day it dawned on me that in Hebrew, “the fat” also means “the best…
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Gracious restraint
Leviticus 26:23-24 “And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me, then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.” To what end will God go to save people from eternal destruction? Does He just give us His laws,…
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Defining “disobedience”
Leviticus 26:14-16 “But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease…
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The thoughts of the greatest Mind
Leviticus 26:2-4 “You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.” One of the…
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The ultimate freedom!
Leviticus 21:21 “No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the Lord’s food offerings; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.” How peculiar were the laws that regulated the Old Testament priesthood. There were laws about touching…
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Unclean! Unclean!
Leviticus 13:12-13 “ And if the leprous disease breaks out in the skin, so that the leprous disease covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see, then the priest shall look, and if the leprous disease has covered all his body, he shall pronounce…
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The problem of sin – and the remedy
Leviticus 11:27 “And all that walk on their paws, among the animals that go on all fours, are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.” Leviticus 12:1 “The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Speak to the people of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be…
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A peculiar people
Leviticus 11:1-3 “And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them,‘ Speak to the people of Israel, saying, “These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.”’” What strange laws…
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The consuming fire
Leviticus 9:24 “And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.” Leviticus 10:1-2 “Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and…
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