Pete Woodcock, Leviticus 1:1 - 27:34, 1 November 2026
The third Mix in our Jesus in the Book series has Pete scouring the whole of Leviticus for pictures of Christ - and He’s everywhere. The people of God have always needed a High Priest to make an atonement offering, bringing us back into His arms. See how Jesus is both Priest and all-sufficient offering in one.
Leviticus 1:1 - 27:34
1:1 The LORD called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings an offering to the LORD, you shall bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock.
3 “If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the LORD. 4 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 5 Then he shall kill the bull before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall bring the blood and throw the blood against the sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 6 Then he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into pieces, 7 and the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire. 8 And Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head, and the fat, on the wood that is on the fire on the altar; 9 but its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall burn all of it on the altar, as a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
10 “If his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, he shall bring a male without blemish, 11 and he shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar. 12 And he shall cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood that is on the fire on the altar, 13 but the entrails and the legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
14 “If his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or pigeons. 15 And the priest shall bring it to the altar and wring off its head and burn it on the altar. Its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar. 16 He shall remove its crop with its contents and cast it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for ashes. 17 He shall tear it open by its wings, but shall not sever it completely. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
2:1 “When anyone brings a grain offering as an offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it 2 and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. And he shall take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all of its frankincense, and the priest shall burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 3 But the rest of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the LORD’s food offerings.
4 “When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil. 5 And if your offering is a grain offering baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil. 6 You shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering. 7 And if your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. 8 And you shall bring the grain offering that is made of these things to the LORD, and when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar. 9 And the priest shall take from the grain offering its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 10 But the rest of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the LORD’s food offerings.
11 “No grain offering that you bring to the LORD shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey as a food offering to the LORD. 12 As an offering of firstfruits you may bring them to the LORD, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing aroma. 13 You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.
14 “If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain. 15 And you shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering. 16 And the priest shall burn as its memorial portion some of the crushed grain and some of the oil with all of its frankincense; it is a food offering to the LORD.
3:1 “If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD. 2 And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar. 3 And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as a food offering to the LORD, he shall offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails, 4 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys. 5 Then Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering, which is on the wood on the fire; it is a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
6 “If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. 7 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the LORD, 8 lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it in front of the tent of meeting; and Aaron’s sons shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar. 9 Then from the sacrifice of the peace offering he shall offer as a food offering to the LORD its fat; he shall remove the whole fat tail, cut off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails 10 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys. 11 And the priest shall burn it on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.
12 “If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD 13 and lay his hand on its head and kill it in front of the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar. 14 Then he shall offer from it, as his offering for a food offering to the LORD, the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails 15 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys. 16 And the priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering with a pleasing aroma. All fat is the LORD’s. 17 It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”
4:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the LORD’s commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them, 3 if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering. 4 He shall bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD and lay his hand on the head of the bull and kill the bull before the LORD. 5 And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting, 6 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the LORD 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 fragrant incense before the LORD that is in the tent of meeting, and all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 8 And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall remove from it, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails 9 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys 10 (just as these are taken from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace offerings); and the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. 11 But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung—12 all the rest of the bull—he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it shall be burned up.
13 “If the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the LORD’s commandments ought not to be done, and they realize their guilt, 14 when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall offer a bull from the herd for a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting. 15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD, and the bull shall be killed before the LORD. 16 Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull into the tent of meeting, 17 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil. 18 And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is in the tent of meeting before the LORD, and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 19 And all its fat he shall take from it and burn on the altar. 20 Thus shall he do with the bull. As he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. And the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven. 21 And he shall carry the bull outside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.
22 “When a leader sins, doing unintentionally any one of all the things that by the commandments of the LORD his God ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, 23 or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish, 24 and shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD; 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 its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering. 26 And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. So the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.
27 “If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the LORD’s commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, 28 or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed. 29 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. 30 And the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar. 31 And all its fat he shall remove, as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasing aroma to the LORD. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.
32 “If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish 33 and lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. 34 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 all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar. 35 And all its fat he shall remove as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on top of the LORD’s food offerings. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
5:1 “If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity; 2 or if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean, and he realizes his guilt; 3 or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt; 4 or if anyone utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that people swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these; 5 when he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed, 6 he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.
7 “But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. 8 He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering. He shall wring its head from its neck but shall not sever it completely, 9 and he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering. 10 Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
11 “But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. 12 And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, on the LORD’s food offerings; it is a sin offering. 13 Thus the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in any one of these things, and he shall be forgiven. And the remainder shall be for the priest, as in the grain offering.”
14 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 15 “If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering. 16 He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.
17 “If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the LORD’s commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity. 18 He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him for the mistake that he made unintentionally, and he shall be forgiven. 19 It is a guilt offering; he has indeed incurred guilt before the LORD.”
6:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor 3 or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby—4 if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found 5 or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt. 6 And he shall bring to the priest as his compensation to the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering. 7 And the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD, and he shall be forgiven for any of the things that one may do and thereby become guilty.”
8 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 9 “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. 10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and put them beside the altar. 11 Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. 12 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. 13 Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.
14 “And this is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD in front of the altar. 15 And one shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering and its oil and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering and burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 16 And the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place. In the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it. 17 It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my food offerings. It is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. 18 Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the LORD’s food offerings. Whatever touches them shall become holy.”
19 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 20 “This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to the LORD on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening. 21 It shall be made with oil on a griddle. You shall bring it well mixed, in baked pieces like a grain offering, and offer it for a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 22 The priest from among Aaron’s sons, who is anointed to succeed him, shall offer it to the LORD as decreed forever. The whole of it shall be burned. 23 Every grain offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”
24 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 25 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD; it is most holy. 26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting. 27 Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy, and when any of its blood is splashed on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was splashed in a holy place. 28 And the earthenware vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. But if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, that shall be scoured and rinsed in water. 29 Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy. 30 But no sin offering shall be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it shall be burned up with fire.
7:1 “This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy. 2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be thrown against the sides of the altar. 3 And all its fat shall be offered, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, 4 the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys. 5 The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD; it is a guilt offering. 6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. 7 The guilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. 8 And the priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering that he has offered. 9 And every grain offering baked in the oven and all that is prepared on a pan or a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it. 10 And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall be shared equally among all the sons of Aaron.
11 “And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that one may offer to the LORD. 12 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil. 13 With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread. 14 And from it he shall offer one loaf from each offering, as a gift to the LORD. It shall belong to the priest who throws the blood of the peace offerings. 15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning. 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten. 17 But what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned up with fire. 18 If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be credited to him. It is tainted, and he who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.
19 “Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned up with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh, 20 but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the LORD’s peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people. 21 And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the LORD’s peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people.”
22 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat. 24 The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it. 25 For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which a food offering may be made to the LORD shall be cut off from his people. 26 Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places. 27 Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”
28 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 29 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the LORD shall bring his offering to the LORD from the sacrifice of his peace offerings. 30 His own hands shall bring the LORD’s food offerings. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the LORD. 31 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons. 32 And the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings. 33 Whoever among the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh for a portion. 34 For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel. 35 This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the LORD’s food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the LORD. 36 The LORD commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations.”
37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, of the sin offering, of the guilt offering, of the ordination offering, and of the peace offering, 38 which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the people of Israel to bring their offerings to the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
8:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread. 3 And assemble all the congregation at the entrance of the tent of meeting.” 4 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him, and the congregation was assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
5 And Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing that the LORD has commanded to be done.” 6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water. 7 And he put the coat on him and tied the sash around his waist and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him and tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod around him, binding it to him with the band. 8 And he placed the breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim. 9 And he set the turban on his head, and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as the LORD commanded Moses.
10 Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them. 11 And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them. 12 And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him. 13 And Moses brought Aaron’s sons and clothed them with coats and tied sashes around their waists and bound caps on them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
14 Then he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. 15 And he killed it, and Moses took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it and purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to make atonement for it. 16 And he took all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar. 17 But the bull and its skin and its flesh and its dung he burned up with fire outside the camp, as the LORD commanded Moses.
18 Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 19 And he killed it, and Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar. 20 He cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat. 21 He washed the entrails and the legs with water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering for the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.
22 Then he presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 23 And he killed it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. 24 Then he presented Aaron’s sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar. 25 Then he took the fat and the fat tail and all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat and the right thigh, 26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD he took one unleavened loaf and one loaf of bread with oil and one wafer and placed them on the pieces of fat and on the right thigh. 27 And he put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons and waved them as a wave offering before the LORD. 28 Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. 29 And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination, as the LORD commanded Moses.
30 Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and also on his sons and his sons’ garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.
31 And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’ 32 And what remains of the flesh and the bread you shall burn up with fire. 33 And you shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you. 34 As has been done today, the LORD has commanded to be done to make atonement for you. 35 At the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, performing what the LORD has charged, so that you do not die, for so I have been commanded.” 36 And Aaron and his sons did all the things that the LORD commanded by Moses.
9:1 On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel, 2 and he said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the LORD. 3 And say to the people of Israel, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish, for a burnt offering, 4 and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil, for today the LORD will appear to you.’” 5 And they brought what Moses commanded in front of the tent of meeting, and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD. 6 And Moses said, “This is the thing that the LORD commanded you to do, that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.” 7 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and for the people, and bring the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded.”
8 So Aaron drew near to the altar and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. 9 And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar. 10 But the fat and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering he burned on the altar, as the LORD commanded Moses. 11 The flesh and the skin he burned up with fire outside the camp.
12 Then he killed the burnt offering, and Aaron’s sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar. 13 And they handed the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head, and he burned them on the altar. 14 And he washed the entrails and the legs and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.
15 Then he presented the people’s offering and took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people and killed it and offered it as a sin offering, like the first one. 16 And he presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the rule. 17 And he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.
18 Then he killed the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings for the people. And Aaron’s sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar. 19 But the fat pieces of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail and that which covers the entrails and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver—20 they put the fat pieces on the breasts, and he burned the fat pieces on the altar, 21 but the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses commanded.
22 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings. 23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people. 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.
10:1 Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them. 2 And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” And Aaron held his peace.
4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Come near; carry your brothers away from the front of the sanctuary and out of the camp.” 5 So they came near and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said. 6 And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, “Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose, and do not tear your clothes, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning that the LORD has kindled. 7 And do not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you.” And they did according to the word of Moses.
8 And the LORD spoke to Aaron, saying, 9 “Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 10 You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean, 11 and you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes that the LORD has spoken to them by Moses.”
12 Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his surviving sons: “Take the grain offering that is left of the LORD’s food offerings, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy. 13 You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons’ due, from the LORD’s food offerings, for so I am commanded. 14 But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, for they are given as your due and your sons’ due from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the people of Israel. 15 The thigh that is contributed and the breast that is waved they shall bring with the food offerings of the fat pieces to wave for a wave offering before the LORD, and it shall be yours and your sons’ with you as a due forever, as the LORD has commanded.”
16 Now Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it was burned up! And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the surviving sons of Aaron, saying, 17 “Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is a thing most holy and has been given to you that you may bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD? 18 Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.” 19 And Aaron said to Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, and yet such things as these have happened to me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would the LORD have approved?” 20 And when Moses heard that, he approved.
11:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, 2 “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. 3 Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. 4 Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. 5 And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. 6 And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. 7 And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. 8 You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
9 “These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat. 10 But anything in the seas or the rivers that does not have fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you. 11 You shall regard them as detestable; you shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses. 12 Everything in the waters that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.
13 “And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, 14 the kite, the falcon of any kind, 15 every raven of any kind, 16 the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind, 17 the little owl, the cormorant, the short-eared owl, 18 the barn owl, the tawny owl, the carrion vulture, 19 the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
20 “All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you. 21 Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet, with which to hop on the ground. 22 Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind. 23 But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you.
24 “And by these you shall become unclean. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening, 25 and whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. 26 Every animal that parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean. 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, 28 and he who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.
29 “And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the ground: the mole rat, the mouse, the great lizard of any kind, 30 the gecko, the monitor lizard, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon. 31 These are unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening. 32 And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack, any article that is used for any purpose. It must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean. 33 And if any of them falls into any earthenware vessel, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it. 34 Any food in it that could be eaten, on which water comes, shall be unclean. And all drink that could be drunk from every such vessel shall be unclean. 35 And everything on which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean. Whether oven or stove, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean and shall remain unclean for you. 36 Nevertheless, a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean, but whoever touches a carcass in them shall be unclean. 37 And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed grain that is to be sown, it is clean, 38 but if water is put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
39 “And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening, 40 and whoever eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
41 “Every swarming thing that swarms on the ground is detestable; it shall not be eaten. 42 Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, any swarming thing that swarms on the ground, you shall not eat, for they are detestable. 43 You shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and you shall not defile yourselves with them, and become unclean through them. 44 For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground. 45 For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”
46 This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground, 47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.
12:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days. As at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean. 3 And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4 Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying. She shall not touch anything holy, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. 5 But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.
6 “And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering, 7 and he shall offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her. Then she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, either male or female. 8 And if she cannot afford a lamb, then 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 for her, and she shall be clean.”
13:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 2 “When a person has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a case of leprous disease on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests, 3 and the priest shall examine the diseased area on the skin of his body. And if the hair in the diseased area has turned white and the disease appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a case of leprous disease. When the priest has examined him, he shall pronounce him unclean. 4 But if the spot is white in the skin of his body and appears no deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest shall shut up the diseased person for seven days. 5 And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and if in his eyes the disease is checked and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up for another seven days. 6 And the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if the diseased area has faded and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only an eruption. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean. 7 But if the eruption spreads in the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again before the priest. 8 And the priest shall look, and if the eruption has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.
9 “When a man is afflicted with a leprous disease, he shall be brought to the priest, 10 and the priest shall look. And if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling, 11 it is a chronic leprous disease in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not shut him up, for he is unclean. 12 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, 13 then the priest shall look, and if the leprous disease has covered all his body, he shall pronounce him clean of the disease; it has all turned white, and he is clean. 14 But when raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean. 15 And the priest shall examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean, for it is a leprous disease. 16 But if the raw flesh recovers and turns white again, then he shall come to the priest, 17 and the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the diseased person clean; he is clean.
18 “If there is in the skin of one’s body a boil and it heals, 19 and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a reddish-white spot, then it shall be shown to the priest. 20 And the priest shall look, and if it appears deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a case of leprous disease that has broken out in the boil. 21 But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days. 22 And if it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a disease. 23 But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread, it is the scar of the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
24 “Or, when the body has a burn on its skin and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a spot, reddish-white or white, 25 the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the spot has turned white and it appears deeper than the skin, then it is a leprous disease. It has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease. 26 But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and it is no deeper than the skin, but has faded, the priest shall shut him up seven days, 27 and the priest shall examine him the seventh day. If it is spreading in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease. 28 But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread in the skin, but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar of the burn.
29 “When a man or woman has a disease on the head or the beard, 30 the priest shall examine the disease. And if it appears deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch, a leprous disease of the head or the beard. 31 And if the priest examines the itching disease and it appears no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for seven days, 32 and on the seventh day the priest shall examine the disease. If the itch has not spread, and there is in it no yellow hair, and the itch appears to be no deeper than the skin, 33 then he shall shave himself, but the itch he shall not shave; and the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for another seven days. 34 And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the itch, and if the itch has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean. 35 But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing, 36 then the priest shall examine him, and if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean. 37 But if in his eyes the itch is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the itch is healed and he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
38 “When a man or a woman has spots on the skin of the body, white spots, 39 the priest shall look, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is leukoderma that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.
40 “If a man’s hair falls out from his head, he is bald; he is clean. 41 And if a man’s hair falls out from his forehead, he has baldness of the forehead; he is clean. 42 But if there is on the bald head or the bald forehead a reddish-white diseased area, it is a leprous disease breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead. 43 Then the priest shall examine him, and if the diseased swelling is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprous disease in the skin of the body, 44 he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.
45 “The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’ 46 He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp.
47 “When there is a case of leprous disease in a garment, whether a woolen or a linen garment, 48 in warp or woof of linen or wool, or in a skin or in anything made of skin, 49 if the disease is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin or in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin, it is a case of leprous disease, and it shall be shown to the priest. 50 And the priest shall examine the disease and shut up that which has the disease for seven days. 51 Then he shall examine the disease on the seventh day. If the disease has spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in the skin, whatever be the use of the skin, the disease is a persistent leprous disease; it is unclean. 52 And he shall burn the garment, or the warp or the woof, the wool or the linen, or any article made of skin that is diseased, for it is a persistent leprous disease. It shall be burned in the fire.
53 “And if the priest examines, and if the disease has not spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin, 54 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the disease, and he shall shut it up for another seven days. 55 And the priest shall examine the diseased thing after it has been washed. And if the appearance of the diseased area has not changed, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean. You shall burn it in the fire, whether the rot is on the back or on the front.
56 “But if the priest examines, and if the diseased area has faded after it has been washed, he shall tear it out of the garment or the skin or the warp or the woof. 57 Then if it appears again in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire whatever has the disease. 58 But the garment, or the warp or the woof, or any article made of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, shall then be washed a second time, and be clean.”
59 This is the law for a case of leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, to determine whether it is clean or unclean.
14:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest, 3 and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person, 4 the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop. 5 And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water. 6 He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. 7 And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird go into the open field. 8 And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but live outside his tent seven days. 9 And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.
10 “And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil. 11 And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the LORD, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 12 And the priest shall take one of the male lambs and offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. 13 And he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. 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 the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. 15 Then the priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand 16 and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the LORD. 17 And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering. 18 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD. 19 The priest shall offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill 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 for him, and he shall be clean.
21 “But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil; 22 also two turtledoves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford. The one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. 23 And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the LORD. 24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. 25 And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering. And the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. 26 And the priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand, 27 and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD. 28 And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, in the place where the blood of the guilt offering was put. 29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD. 30 And he shall offer, of the turtledoves or pigeons, whichever he can afford, 31 one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a grain offering. And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for him who is being cleansed. 32 This is the law for him in whom is a case of leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing.”
33 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 34 “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession, 35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house.’ 36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, lest all that is in the house be declared unclean. And afterward the priest shall go in to see the house. 37 And he shall examine the disease. And if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface, 38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days. 39 And the priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the disease has spread in the walls of the house, 40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean place outside the city. 41 And he shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city. 42 Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.
43 “If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it, 44 then the priest shall go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprous disease in the house; it is unclean. 45 And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place. 46 Moreover, whoever enters the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening, 47 and whoever sleeps in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 “But if the priest comes and looks, and if the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed. 49 And for the cleansing of the house he shall take two small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop, 50 and shall kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water 51 and shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the scarlet yarn, along with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water and sprinkle the house seven times. 52 Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water and with the live bird and with the cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn. 53 And he shall let the live bird go out of the city into the open country. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.”
54 This is the law for any case of leprous disease: for an itch, 55 for leprous disease in a garment or in a house, 56 and for a swelling or an eruption or a spot, 57 to show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for leprous disease.
15:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. 3 And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is blocked up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness. 4 Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean. 5 And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 6 And whoever sits on anything on which the one with the discharge has sat shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
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We're looking at Leviticus. We've seen that it's big pictures. And before the mini mix go out, let me just show you some things about Leviticus. So, Leviticus is how to live for god but it's how to live for god on what Jesus has done for us and that's what it's all about. Can we put the next picture up, please?
Basically, Leviticus is like a mountain. You've got 15 chapters going up one side. 15 chapters showing us pictures of what Jesus has done for us and how we've actually failed God. How we've done it deliberately, not deliberately, where we've done things that we shouldn't have done, but there's a sacrifice and a sacrifice and a sacrifice, five of them, right reaching right up to the peak, which is chapter 16. Chapter 16 of Leviticus is the peak.
What is chapter 16? Peak. And it's all about at onement. How to be at one with God. How to be at one with God.
It's a brilliant word. Tyndall thought that up. I'll tell you about him in a minute. So 16 or 15 chapters, and then we're at the top, and it's all about Jesus dying on the cross for us, and we work that out with all these sacrifices. Then on the way down, 11 chapters about how to live for God.
How should we live? Things God wants us to do, things God doesn't want us to do. In the light of the great atonement, chapter 16, Jesus dying on the cross for us. It's all pictures, all showing us who Jesus is. Let me try and illustrate it quickly before the mini mix go out.
Let's have a look at this. Next slide, please. Oh, well, there there's there's what it says about Jesus. That God presented Christ as a sacrifice of an atonement through the shedding of his blood. Move on that.
We'll move on. Okay? Let's have a think about this. Now let's think about little children, little babies. Okay?
What are they allowed to do? What must they not do? What can they do? And then what can they do when they're adults? And this helps us understand Leviticus.
There are things you mustn't do in the picture. There are things that you can do when you've grown up and you've found Jesus Christ. That's really how Leviticus works. So hands up if a little child must not play with electricity. Adults, you can put your hands up.
Hands up. Who hasn't got their hand up? Okay. So they can't play with electricity, but when you're an adult, can you? Can you play with electricity?
Hands up if you can. Yeah, you can, but you've to be careful. But the point of it was to tell the children, be careful. Be careful. So you can when you're an adult.
Okay. Drinking milk. Can a child drink milk? Must not... Who thinks a child must not drink milk?
Unless they've got an allergy of course. Okay. Who thinks a child can drink milk? Hands up. And who thinks an adult can drink milk?
Yes, that's right. Okay, what about grapes? Who thinks grapes, children, babies must not eat grapes? Hands up. Who thinks they can eat a grape as an adult?
Who thinks they can eat a grape? Well, let's have a look at the answers. Yeah? So electricity must not play with it, but you can when you're an adult. Milk, you can drink milk and you can drink milk as an adult.
Grapes, you can, but you've got to be careful because you have to cut them in half because the little kids can things can go wrong, and you can as an adult. Let's move on to the next thing. Let's quickly. Right. Eating poo.
Right? Who thinks you can eat poo? Hands up. Okay. Who has eaten poo?
Come on. Who's eaten poo this morning? Okay. Who... What about lying?
Can you lie? Who thinks you can lie? Okay. Who thinks you must not lie? Okay.
What about alcohol? Who thinks a child must not drink alcohol? Okay. Okay, let's have a at the answers quickly. So it's true.
You shouldn't eat poo when you're a child. You shouldn't eat poo when you're an adult. There's something seriously wrong with you. Yeah? Lying.
You shouldn't lie when you're a child, and you shouldn't lie when you're an adult. Now in Leviticus, you get stuff like this. You can do and you can't do, and then you can do when you're an adult, when when Jesus has come, and then lying, well that's always wrong. And then alcohol, see that. Next one, quick one last one.
What about eating cake? Who thinks a child must not eat cake? There's a couple of mums, couple of mums. Who thinks a child must not play with fire? Hands up.
What about stealing? Who thinks a child should not steal? You know what the answers are. Let's have a look. So you can eat cake as a child, and you can eat cake as an adult, and you can play with...
You cannot play with fire as a child, but you can with an adult. But you've learnt as a child to be careful. And you mustn't steal as a child and you mustn't steal as an adult. Now the whole point of all of that is to really show us what Leviticus does about all its rules and laws. Now those that are going to stay into this section, we'll go back to that in a little little while.
But what is being laid down is God is saying, if you want to follow me, you got to think there's right and there's wrong. There's good things and there's bad things. There's things that are appropriate at one time in your life you're allowed to do and things really you're not allowed to do at other times. And there's full of all kinds of things in Leviticus that you work out. But when Jesus comes, he changes a lot.
We grow up. We're an adult. So we'll see that in our older section. Let me just illustrate it very quickly and illustrate the, why we have these offerings and sacrifices. Let's say this happens.
Do not drive the car when you're a child. What is it? Mum and dad says, I've got the car on the drive. You can sit in the front seat, but do not press the on button and take the brake off. Do not drive the car.
What is it? But mom and dad aren't there. And you're sitting in the front seat. So let's see what happens. You do drive the car.
Are you in trouble? Did you obey or not? Are you in trouble? Does your pocket money pay for that? So what do you need to do if someone said, a parent said don't and you did, or God says don't and you did, and you're one of his children?
Well, here's the thing you want to do. You want to say sorry. You have done wrong. Have you done wrong? Yes.
Well then you need to say sorry. What do you need to say? Sorry. But can you pay for the damage on your pocket money? Yes.
You can pay for it on your pocket money, then your parents are giving you far too much money. Right? I doubt it. You can't pay. So someone has to pay, so you need to say the next word.
Please. Please. Please. Forgive me. And pay for me.
Pay for it. Sorry? I shouldn't have done it. Please. You can pay for it because you're the only one that can.
Yeah? Let's go to the next word then you need to say. Thank you. Thank you for paying for it. Now that is how you live in the light of what Jesus has done.
Jesus has paid for our sins. Yeah? And so we come and say, sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.
I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. And when you know what Jesus has done for you, you can say, I love you. I love you.
That is how to live in the light of what Jesus has done. He's already paid for our sin. He's paid for our wrong. But we bring these offerings that we'll see in Leviticus as a thank you for paying for my sin and I want to live for you. That's the mountaintop.
Okay, the little mix or what are they called mini mix are going to go to their groups after this song and we've got this song and Tom is going to teach it to us, Jesus in the book and then after that, Tom, will you dismiss us? Where is he? Brilliant. Thank you. And then when you've been dismissed and the younger ones go, just chat to yourself for a little while and then we'll get back together.
Okay. Back to Leviticus. Remember, Leviticus, it was often taught to the equivalent of the Sunday school, the Sabbath school, by the Jews to the children because it's so full of pictures. And it's pictures about sacrifice, how to live. Remember, that is a symbol, a picture of a ram, a lamb.
It isn't the lamb. And that's what Leviticus is like. Just think like that. It's like a child's book when you see the sort of outline of a cat, you say to the child, what is that? They say cat.
How do you spell cat? C A T. Cat, dog, D O D. And so it goes on. And this is teaching us, but it's teaching us not to stay in the symbol, but to look to the Lord Jesus Christ.
So, anyway, Leviticus, we open up Leviticus and we have five offerings. We're going to have a quick look at them. There are five offerings and those of you that are going to read through Leviticus, stick at it and see that the book, it's not Jesus in the book really so much as the book is all about Jesus. It's these pictures of Jesus and you've got five offerings and they show us a number of things. They show us different angles about how we are not right with God and things we've done wrong.
Sometimes we don't even know we've done them wrong. We're just not living for God. And there's an offering for each one of those to show us that we're separated from God. And it's a really big deal. And we're more separated from God than than we think.
We're really far away. And these five offerings are pictures of different things that we need to get right with God, but God has provided these offerings and the picture of them is pointing to the Lord Jesus Christ. So let's just have a look at some of these offerings. There's the burnt offering. That's the first one that you can read about.
It's an offering where we give everything. In this burnt offering, it's a bull or a sheep or a dove or a pigeon and you give the whole animal to God and the skin is taken off and that's given to the priest, which reminds us of something that happened in Genesis. So the whole thing is burnt up and the lessons that we're supposed to learn from this is that God desires more than just a part of us. That actually, he desires all of us. And Jesus gave his whole life.
He never did anything wrong. His whole life was an offering in praise of God. And it's interesting that we were made to bring glory to God, and we haven't by the things we've said and done and not done and not said and our selfish acts and all of that. But Jesus is the glory of God. So the burnt offering they had to bring, to the priest that came to this tabernacle, which we'll see in a minute, and it was for those reasons, a whole offering to God, my whole life to God.
Jesus has done it for me. Yeah. The grain offering, now that often went on top. Well, did. It went with the burnt offering.
When you read the passage, you'll see that. And it's a thankfulness. It was it was a grain or flour or incense that you brought. And it was said to be a sweet aroma, a nice smell to God. Because it's a thankfulness.
And so with the offering of giving your life, it's not like, oh, duty. Oh, I have to give my life to Jesus. This is year where it's all religion. There's a joy in this. There's a thankfulness in this.
And Jesus thankfully gave himself up to the father on our behalf. Then there's this fellowship offering. It's one of my favorites. It's often called the peace offering. It's a fellowship.
It it means that that actually you you brought you brought the the you brought the offering which was a bull or a sheep or a goat and it was killed and the blood was taken as we'll see in a minute. But the food, the meat, God had his part, the fat part which was the best part, the priest had his part, and the offerer had his part. And you were meant to sit and eat together with God. It's called the fellowship offering, the peace offering. It's not just that we have peace with God.
He's not at war with us anymore, but actually, he wants to sit down and eat with us. This isn't religion where we do stuff and stuff is done on our behalf and we don't know God. We know God. He eats with us. He fellowships with us.
We have peace with him. Shalom. We have joy to eat with Him. It's a wonderful picture of the Christian faith. God declares He wants friendship with us.
And Jesus is the friend of sinners who brings God and people together. It's wonderful offering, isn't it? Okay. Number four. This is called the sin offering.
This is all about when we pollute ourselves in the world because we're in a world full of horrible things, and we don't even know we've done wrong. For instance, one of the laws one of the laws in Leviticus is, if a fly went into your cup and you don't wash it and drink some water out of it or some fizzy coke out of it, you've broken God's law. How do you do that? How how many of us got those little tiny flies around? They're like...
There are millions of them, aren't they? I've got sticky things all over the place. I've even allowed a spider to catch them. And there's tons of them. I mean, they're like little phantoms.
You see them and you go... And then they're gone. Where they go? Then they come back. But if a fly went into my cup this morning, and for my cup of tea, I hadn't washed it properly, I've broken God's law.
How do you know you've done that? Did you choose your seat wisely here when you came in? Because someone who was unclean might have sat on that. In fact, we're at a school that's very unclean. There's no way a Leviticus priest will go into the boys' toilets.
I can tell you that. That is unclean. Definition of unclean, as we'll see again in a minute. But if you sat on a seat where someone hadn't washed and purified themselves, you're unclean. You see that?
How do you know you've done that? I don't know. Just living, I fail God. But there's this offering, the sin offering that deals with all the things that we didn't even know we've done wrong. Jesus is that.
Isn't that wonderful? Jesus saves us from ourselves and from this world. Then the fifth one is called the guilt offering. Because we owe a debt to God really. We actually owe a debt to God.
And this is an offering that was again, it a ram. And the offering was again restoring fellowship by paying the debt for us, paying off the price like we saw earlier on. It's a wonderful thing. Jesus makes things right between us and God the Father. That's Leviticus.
It's a wonderful, wonderful thing. Now, all of those, just go to the next slide, let's try and do this quickly. All of those offerings are teaching us about life, how we fail God, and teaching us about what Jesus did for us in dying on the cross. But they're all like steps up the side of the mountain to what chapter? 16.
What chapter? What chapter? 60. The day of atonement. The day of atonement.
That's the big one. Once a year, this is the big one. This is the big one that makes us right with God, that all the other things Jesus has done will work because of this one, the peak. So we're coming to that. Let's sing a song then.
And our next song is Christ is all my righteousness. Can we stand and sing this song together? Thank you. Go back to the next up to the next picture. Okay.
So, we're here now on the top of the mountain. What chapter are we in? Yeah, it's the peak chapter. It tells us what Leviticus is all about, tells us what all the sacrifice is about, and it tells us how to live for God. By the way, the word atonement at one month was coined by William Tyndall.
And the little booklet that you've got on is a very important bit of a bit of history. And I really want to encourage you to read it. But if you went to a page in there, you'll see some of the words that William Tinyall coined for us to understand what the original Hebrew was saying. And atonement was one, at one ment, he meant it at one make, At one make. That's how he originally wrote it.
At one make. Us one with God. Scapegoat that we're going to see in a minute. A scapegoat. You may use that word.
That's William Tyndall. Mercy Seat which we're going to see in a minute. That's William Tyndall. Passover, that's William Tyndall. All those words, they're all in Leviticus and they were all coined to explain what the original language was saying to us in English.
Good old William Tyndale, read that booklet, pass it on, very important time of history that we're celebrating in that booklet. Please read it. So we're at the top. We're on the peak. We're going to look at the next slide, the Day of Atonement.
And this involves a number of things. It involves a tabernacle, which is like a big tent thing, which was right in the middle of where the people camped. It involves a high priest, not just a priest, but a high priest. It did involve priests as well. It involved the high priest taking off his really ceremonial gear and putting on special gear, linen clothes.
It involves bulls and goats and rams, and it happened once a year and it was a very special peak in the diary of the Jewish people in the wilderness. And it is all about coming and showing us how we come to the living God. Because at the end of Exodus, if you read it, it's fantastic. The end of Exodus is God is living with his people. God is living with his people.
God has come to live with his people and represented in this tent in the wilderness. It's fantastic. And he lives in a very special place in the tabernacle. Let me just show you the tabernacle. Now listen, we could spend a whole, and we nearly did, a whole day on the tabernacle.
We just couldn't get one set up and borrow the right hall to set one up. The tabernacle, it completely speaks of Jesus. Jesus is everywhere. There's one way into the tabernacle. There's one way to God, Jesus.
You come to an altar that has to take the burnt offering. Jesus gave his life as an offering to get us to Jesus. You come to a big laver, a great big sort of bowl of water to purify. Jesus is the one that makes us pure before God. You come in to this tent in the middle of a tent.
Let's go to the next picture. And there's all kinds of details there, all about Jesus. You go through that one that sort of opened up for us. You go through one curtain, and there's bread on one side. Jesus is the bread of life.
And then there's light candles on the other side, Jesus is the light of the world. Then you come before an incense that sends smoke up to God, a pleasing aroma, Jesus is the pleasing aroma to God. Then you go into another tent that only the high priest could go in, and in that is a thing called the mercy seat. It's an amazing thing, the mercy seat. It's a box covered in gold and in the box of the 10 commandments that we've broken.
And over the top of the box, angels looking down and seeing that we've broken. And on the mercy seat, you put the blood that covers our broken, our broken, our brokenness and our broken laws. It's amazing. Let me just read some of it. It's quite long and I know it's quite long, but let's let's go on to just just let me just read some of this.
This is how this is chapter 16 of of Leviticus. This is how Aaron, he's the high priest, is to enter the most holy place. He must first bring a young goat for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. He is to put on the sacred linen tunic. Get that in your head.
What is it? Sacred linen tunic. Click, click, click, click in a minute. With linen, get that in your head, undergarments. Sacred linen tunic, sacred linen undergarments.
Next to his body, he is to tie the, what is it? Linen sash around him and put on his linen turban. We're being told something here. Get it in your head. These are the sacred garments.
So he must bathe himself with water before he puts them on, purify himself. From the Israelite community, he is to take two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. Aaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement at onement with God for himself and his household, and he has to slaughter the bull for his own sin offerings. And then he goes on and there's more and more stuff. Let's just go to the next picture.
So what is the garments he's got to put on? Linen garments. And in order to do that, he had to take off his gold garments, his very special garment. He took them all off, washed himself, and put on linen garments. Then we're told that he uses these goats.
Now it's a little confusing because they're they're mentioned at the beginning and then they're mentioned at the end. So we'll just go to them right now. Two goats. One goat, I won't read it, is killed for sin. Another goat is the scapegoat, where he puts...
He leans on the goat, and he puts all the sins of the people onto the goat, and there's a special man that takes the goat out, takes him away, leads him out into the wilderness. You see that? Jesus both dies on the cross for our sin like the first goat and takes our sin away as far as the east is against the west, we're told in the Bible, away from God. Out it goes. Out it goes.
Jesus is both goats. Isn't that amazing, we're told in the Bible. So let's go on. So he then brings blood. He burns the sacrifices, he kills the bull, he brings the blood.
And in the next passage, you'll see he brings the blood, I won't read it, but he brings the blood to the altar, he puts his finger in the blood and he sprinkles the blood on this. Let's go to the next picture. He sprinkles the blood in that holy place where God is pictured, on that box called the mercy seat. The mercy seat. And the blood, the life of an animal, you should have died, but it's died in your place.
The Israelites should have died, but it's died in their place. Aaron, high priest should have died, but it's died in his place. He puts the blood over the 10 commandments that have been broken, and it's called the mercy seat. Wonderful stuff. Let's have a look at some New Testament Bible.
There is... Oh, there's something. Oh, go back. There it is. The mercy seat.
And notice that the angels on it, their wings, I don't know whether they're touching in that. They shouldn't be. They're slightly not touching. They're nearly touching. It's as if God looks down.
They're looking down. The angels, the holy angels looking down at the box, and the box says the 10 commandments have been broken. What's God gonna do? They're looking and then the blood goes over and the life of an animal has taken away. And Jesus is is is the life of the animal.
Let's just have a look at some of these verses in the Bible just to get it in. Look what Romans it's in the Bible. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of at one man atonement through the shedding of his blood. Christ is that. Let's have a look at Hebrew.
Oh my goodness. There's so much there. You're gonna have to read that at home. Hebrews chapter nine is so small. I can hardly see it.
But Christ it says, now we don't have bloods of goats and bulls anymore. We don't do this. Why? Why don't we at Cornerstone Church, when we come to God, let's say at the prayer meeting, we pray to God as our father, why don't we get Tom to bring a bull in and kill the thing? Why don't we do that?
Why don't we? Why don't we have a ram? Why don't we have two goats at the entrance of the hub or here, and one we slaughter and the other we shoo off every week? Why don't we do that? Why don't we do that?
Jesus has done it. It was a picture. It was only a picture of the real thing. And we've gone through Hebrews and you can listen to the sermons and this chapter particularly, chapter nine and chapter 10 shows us very, very clearly. We don't do that anymore because we have a better sacrifice.
That was a shadow, that was a picture, Jesus is the real thing. And Jesus doesn't just take us into a little tent where God is. Jesus takes us into the wonderful tabernacle of God, the new creation. Do you want to go to heaven? Yes.
Do you want to go to the new creation when you die? Yes. Or you want to stick around in this world? No. As dust and ashes?
No. Do you want to go to the new creation? Yes. Well, Jesus is the one that opens the way. So believe in him.
Yes. You're mad not to. Absolutely. Believe in him. Trust in him.
He's done it all for you. Why would you start going back to religion? Why would you start saying I better do this, better do that, better bring us. Jesus has done it. All the things that you didn't even know you've done wrong, he's paid for on the cross.
Bringing you into friendship at onement with God. It's marvelous. There's one more thing I really can tell you, and I'm gonna read the scriptures on this. There's one more thing. Let's move on.
Move on. You got to read them. You got to go back and read them. Oh, wonderful. Move on.
I I only put them in this morning and now I changed my mind. They're wonderful. Read Hebrews nine and ten. I will listen to the sermons. Listen to this.
Let me read it again. Then Aaron is to go into the tent of meeting and take off the linen garments. He put them on. Now he's taking them off. To take off the linen garments, he put on before he entered the most holy place, and he is to leave them there.
Now all the Israelites were outside looking at what the high priest did. Yeah? And they wanted to know that God had accepted that they are now at one with God through the sacrifice. And how did they know? Do you know how they knew?
Aaron came out naked. Yep. Now we're gonna demonstrate this. So Rory, would you wanna come up here? And the linen clothes were taken off and folded.
Right, let's have a look at this. Go to the next one. Here is Jesus. He died on the cross, remember? He was put into a tomb, remember?
Like a little cave, a bit like the Holy of Holies. And then it says, then Simon Peter came along behind him, that's John, they ran to the tomb because they'd been told that the body had gone. And Simon Peter came along behind him and went through into the tomb. He saw the... What did he see?
Linen Strips lying there. And then you'll see linen linen linen linen used as many times as it is in Leviticus. The strips of linen. Who's Jesus? The high priest.
The one who doesn't just take us into the holy of holies once a year after killing goats, but the one who shed his blood and takes us into the holy of holies to know God as father. He's done the job. His linen clothes are folded. He's the high priest. Isn't that wonderful?
That's what Leviticus is. It's all a picture of Jesus. Let's sing our next song. Jesus Christ, I think about your sacrifice. Please sit down.
Let's do our last section together. So, we're in Leviticus. We've been at the top of the mountain in chapter 16 and as we were just singing, because of what God has done for us in Christ, we want to live for him. We want to live a thank you for him. And Leviticus teaches us things about clean and unclean.
There are ways to live and there are ways not to live. And as we saw in that first chunk about what you mustn't do, what you can do, and what you can do when you're older, they're all lessons. They're teaching us that actually God wants us to be pure and not unclean. And, we don't have to follow all the rules now because Jesus has come and fulfilled them. But let's just have a look at this unclean, this clean and unclean stuff.
This is living in the light of chapter 16, living in the light that we're right with God already. This doesn't make us right with God. This is how we want to live. We want to live pure lives. Look at these verses.
Is what Leviticus says, I am the Lord who brought you out of Egypt. I've saved you, to be your God. Therefore be holy because I am holy. Follow me, be like me. You see, religion just says, how do I get right with God, but I don't really want to be like God.
I just want some something to be done so I'm right with him, so he doesn't sort of get angry at me. But it's it's totally different in Christianity. He wants to bring us to ourselves, to himself, so that we would become much more what we were meant to be in Genesis chapters one and two. That we would be people that know God and be like God. And so there are regulations as you can see from that next quote.
Regulations to distinguish us, just so that people know, hey, yeah, that's a follower of God. They live different lives. Why? Because God is their Lord. Their Lord is holy, they want to be holy.
So let's have a look at a few of these things. Let's go back here. Now you can stand up here and sit down. We're going to look at some of these animals. I think you've got that on your sheets as well.
So we're looking at these. We're living in the light of the atonement. Who thinks a camel is clean or unclean? Who thinks a camel is clean? Stand up if you think a camel is clean.
Please stand up. That's one person. Thank you. Oh, you were standing up for another reason, but I've still locked you. Who thinks a camel is unclean?
Stand up if you think it's unclean. Okay, it's sort of quite a lot. Who's not sure? Sit down. Who's not sure?
Because some of you haven't stood up, so who's not sure? Is it a clean or unclean animal? You're not sure. Okay, sit down. Who thinks a cow is clean?
Stand up if you think a cow is clean. I'm talking about Leviticus. Okay, sit down. Who thinks a cow is unclean in Levitical laws? Yes, one person?
Two people? Who's not sure? Come on. You're not sure? Some of you are not sure?
A spider. Can you eat a spider in Leviticus laws? Now, I talked to a missionary once, who was a missionary in Peru, and I said, what did you eat out there? Not in Peru, in Papua New Guinea. And he said, oh, you eat tarantula.
Yeah, they go and eat tarantula. So is that a clean thing in Leviticus to eat or is it an unclean animal? Who thinks it's unclean? Stand up if you think it's unclean. Sit down.
Who thinks it's clean? Who thinks you can eat that? You do. Have you eaten one? Erin, have you eaten one?
Does your mom cook that? No, but they may have fallen in the pot. And well, know this is nonsense, but aren't we told that we eat at least eight spiders during our sleep? I don't think that's every night, but anyway. When you go to Australia, you don't want to eat one of their spiders.
They are massive. Okay, this is a grasshopper. Who thinks a grasshopper is unclean? Stand up if it's unclean. Unclean?
Who thinks it's clean? Sit down, clean. And the rest of you are just, are you here? You're not helping me. Okay, let's have a look.
Next slide. Haven't I put the answers up? I haven't put the answers up. Okay. Go back.
Go back. I'll tell you. A camel, unclean. Cow, clean. A spider, unclean.
A grasshopper clean. Okay, next one. That's a cicada. It's like a grasshopper. Who thinks a cicada is clean?
It's like a grasshopper. Stand up if you think it's clean. Sit down. Stand up if it's unclean. The rest of you are not helping.
Thank you. Do you want to know? Grasshopper? Clean. Cicada?
Unclean. Don't eat that. A snake? Delicious. Who's eating snake?
Yeah? Eating snake? Brilliant. Yeah? Have you got it for dinner today?
Snake snack sandwich? Okay. So let's find out. Are you clean or unclean? Who thinks a snake is clean?
You can eat it. Yeah. You follow Abby, she's nearly always wrong. And she is. She's wrong.
Okay. It's unclean. What about a pig? Oh, I love pig. Who loves pig?
Who's from Asia? Don't you love pig? Pig. Did you eat pig when you were in Hong Kong? You ate pig when you were in Hong Kong?
Right. Simon, are you clean or unclean? He's unclean. He's an unclean pig eater. Yeah.
Now they're the things that you get in Leviticus. Now remember we saw that when you grow up, in other words, when you're in Christ, you can eat these things. You can eat all of those things. Yeah? Because of Christ.
Now listen, the only reason you can eat pork today, the only reason is not that it's... We've grown up and become more sophisticated people, is because Jesus died to take our uncleanness, and now we can eat that. That's what Leviticus is pointing to. So let's go on to these verses. Look at these verses.
One from the New Testament, both from the New Testament. Colossians, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having cancelled the charge of our legal indebtedness. He paid for all the failures, even the things we didn't know when a fly went in your cup when you've eaten pig and you didn't know you shouldn't have. He's paid for that all, so you now can eat it, which stood against us and condemned us.
He has taken it away, nailing it on the cross. Isn't that wonderful? Every failure nailed on the cross. Look at this. So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
That's what Leviticus is teaching us. Think about what you do. Live a pure life. Think about what God wants. Do whatever you do, even eating and drinking, to the glory of God.
It's a wonderful thing. Back to this picture. Next one. Say, I'm sorry for the way I've lived my life. Have you ever done that?
Say, please forgive me on the basis of what you've done, not on anything I do. Say thank you. Say I love you, Jesus. Have you ever done that? Have you ever understood the depths of the sin of your life and the absolute amazingness of Jesus?
And children, children, you need to do this. You need to say sorry to Jesus. Please forgive me on the basis of what you've done on the mercy seat. Be... In fact, there's a phrase in the New Testament.
Be mercy seated to me. Be mercy seated to me. The place where the blood covered my law breaking. Be mercy seated me. Thank you for that.
There's one last thing in Leviticus and I have to finish with this and then we're done. It won't take me long. Right at the end, there's the year of Jubilee. Now is Jubilee a sort of word where you would think that's a depressing word? Or is it a who cares word?
Or is it a really happy word? What do you think? Happy. Happy. If I said Jubilee, we got a Jubilee feast today.
What would you say? I'm I'm going to that. And there you've got the year of Jubilee and you can read it right at the end of the book of Leviticus or nearly the end, chapter 25. And it's a year where you've got yourself into trouble and everything's paid for you. You're back again, you start again, your debts are paid, your fields are given back to you.
It's a wonderful, wonderful thing. The year of Jubilee. Look at the last verse there. In this year of Jubilee, everyone is to return to his own property. It's a start again.
It's a brand new start. It's wow, everything's new again. All that was old and broken and worn out and all the debt I got myself into wiped away. The year of? The year of?
Jubilee. Look at Jesus. Go to Jesus, the next one. Here he is at the beginning of his ministry. He goes into a synagogue in Nazareth.
He opens up the scriptures. He opens up a scroll and he reads about the year of Jubilee, but not from Leviticus, but actually from Isaiah. And it's an amazing thing. The spirit of the Lord is on me, he says, because he has ordained me. Sorry, he has anointed me.
The word anointed, that's the priest word. The priests were anointed, the kings were anointed and the prophets were anointed. The prophets had a little bit of oil, The kings had a little bit of oil. But when you read Leviticus, the the the priests had like gallons of oil all over them. Their turbans were dripping with oil.
And he's the priest. He's the anointed one. That's the Messiah word. That's the Christ word. The spirit of the Lord on me.
He's reading this in the synagogue, Jesus. The spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. That's the year of Jubilee. That's Jesus.
Look what it says. He began by saying to them, today, the scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. He's the year of jubilee. He's the one that brings us to God. He's the one that gives us a new start.
He's the one that is our atonement. He's the burnt offering and the sin offering and the fellowship offering. He's all of those offerings. He's all of those things. He's the at onement.
He's the great high priest. He's the scapegoat. He's the lamb. He's the bull. He's the bread.
He's the light. He's the way in. He's everything. Is Leviticus about Jesus? Is it hard to find Jesus in Leviticus?
Is it like Jesus in the book? Why are we calling it this? Jesus in the book. There he might be. Oh.
It's... Jesus is the book. It's all about him. It's all about him. Get reading Leviticus.
There's some things that you're gonna sort of find difficult, but try to see Jesus in it. And so I hope you've enjoyed that. Father God, we thank you for giving us the Lord Jesus Christ, your blessed son, the son of God. We thank you that he came into this world to be all that we need, to be our high priest, the one that leads us back to you, to be our ram and our bull and our scapegoat and our tabernacle and the one that brings us into friendship with you. He's all that we need.
And we thank you that he rose again. He folded up the linen clothes and rose again. We thank you that he's coming back for his own. He put on those golden sash
Preached by Pete Woodcock
Pete is a Pastor of Cornerstone and lives in Chessington with his wife Anne who helps oversee the women’s ministry in the church.
Jesus in Leviticus
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