Today was basically an extension of the Ten Commandments with more rules and laws, and that you should be holy. I had my highlighters out in force today trying to figure out what all the rules and laws were!
“And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.'”
-Leviticus 19:1-2
-Revere your parents.
-Keep the Sabbaths.
-Do not turn to idols or make any gods of cast metal.
-Rules on peace offerings…
-Rules on harvesting the land…
-Do not strip the land, but leave the fallen crop for the poor.
-Shall not steal.
-Shall not deal falsely.
-Shall not lie.
-Shall not swear by Lord’s name falsely, and profane name of your God.
-Shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him.
-Pay your hired servant that day.
-Shall not curse the deaf or blind.
-Should fear God.
-Do no injustice in court.
-Shall not be partial to poor or defer to the great to judge your neighbor.
-Shall not slander.
-Shall not hate your brother in your heart.
-Reason frankly with your neighbor.
-Shall take no vengeance or bear a grudge against sons of your own people.
-Love your neighbor as yourself.
“You shall keep my statutes.”
-Cattle can not breed with different kinds.
-Shall not sow field with two kinds of seed.
-Shall wear no garment of cloth made with two kinds of material.
-Rules on man laying with woman who is a slave; be compensated and have offerings for atonement.
-Rules on planting trees: 3 years its fruit is forbidden, 4th year all fruit is holy, 5th year you may eat the fruit.
-Shall not eat any flesh with blood in it.
-Shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.
-Shall not round off the hair on temples or beard.
-Shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves.
-Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute.
-Keep Sabbaths and reverence sanctuary.
-Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out.
-Shall not stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man??
-Do no harm to a stranger sojourning.
-Treat stranger who sojourns as a native among you, and love him as yourself.
-Do no wrong in judgement, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
-Have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin.
“And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the Lord.”
Then it went on to explain the punishment for breaking the rules/laws. Pretty much all of them ended in death.
“You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples…You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.”
-Leviticus 20:22-26
It explained how the priests were to become holy, and a lot of it was similar to that of the people, with some additions.
-Shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, or a divorced woman.
-If a priest’s daughter profanes herself by whoring, she profanes her father and shall be burned with fire.
-Hair can not hang loose or have torn clothes.
-He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his parents??
-Can not go out of the sanctuary.
-Take a wife who is a virgin.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, and said how no one with any type of blemish may go near the altar to make an offering. So anyone who is blind or lame, or has a mutilated face or a limb too long, or has an injured foot or hand, or a hunchback or dwarf, or has a defect with sight or itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.
He may eat the bread of his God, but he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish. This is similar to the animals that are used as offerings, meaning they shall have no blemish on them.
I will be happy when I am through all of the laws and rules. It is becoming quite tedious.
Wow!
This was interesting reading, where do I stand (fall) with my tattoos? Kinda scares me.