Day 32. Leviticus 7-9

Leviticus 7-9

Leviticus 7

¹Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.

Looks like this chapter is going to be more of how to kill things.

²In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.

Leviticus 1 was about the burnt offering, this is more about the trespass offering.

The priest is to offer the fat, the rump, the fat on the innards, the fat on the kidneys. The caul above the liver and the kidneys themselves are not to be burned.

⁵And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.

We don't know how well done it's supposed to be.

⁶Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.

Of course they get to eat it.

⁸And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.

The skin doesn't get burned, the skin doesn't get thrown away, the skin belongs to the priest. The priest gets the leather.

⁹And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it.

The priest gets the bread.

¹²If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.

¹³Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.

If it's a thanksgiving offering, then leaven is acceptable.

²⁰But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

An unclean person can not eat offerings.

²³Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

Right there, in the middle of the rules for the offerings, we have another leviticacism. Don't eat the fat.

²⁴And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.

You can use the fat for other things, but not for eating. Other uses are... um... grease maybe?

²⁵For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.

Eating fat of offerings will get you kicked out. Looks like we are back to offerings again.

²⁶Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

Nope, it was just one verse about eating the fat of offerings.

²⁷Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Don't eat blood. You will be kicked out.

²⁹Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

And, back to offerings.

³¹And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

³²And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

Chris Rock said daddy gets the big piece of chicken. Aaron's sons get the big piece of meat.

The right shoulder goes to the priest who did the cutting.

³⁷This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;

³⁸Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.

So, we've had burnt offerings, meat (flour) offerings, sin offerings, trespass offerings, and peace offerings. Moses was apparently on mount Sinai when that happened. That's odd, because it doesn't seem like the conversation has moved from anywhere. The last place we were told anyone was was in Leviticus 1:1 And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, and now, they are on mount Sinai.

Leviticus 8

God continues to talk to Moses.

²Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;

³And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Moses must have really liked his nephews. We don't get to hear at all about what happened to his own kids.

So Moses gathers everyone, washes Aaron and his sons, and then dressed him.

¹⁵And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.

Aaron was probably thinking, how come I get in trouble for making a golden calf, and in the meantime, you get to kill a real calf and sprinkle it's blood around like it is something all mighty.

¹⁸And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

¹⁹And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.

Then they killed the ram.

²²And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

²³And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.

Then they killed the other ram. Moses took some of the blood and put it on Aaron's right ear, right thumb, and big toe of right foot.

There seems to be a bunch of crap on the internet about why there was blood put on those places. This guy says: the ear symbolizes that we should be careful for what we hear. The thumb symbolizes what we do; the toe symbolizes where we go. Apparently that's the common theory behind it. The Blood of Consecration by Henry Morris. It seems like people are trying to give meaning to a weird ghastly ritual.

Then Moses put some of the bread on the altar, and gave some to Aaron and his boys.

³⁰And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

That's the holy hallucinogenic oil.

³³And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.

Is James Arthur Ray related to Moses?

³⁶So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.

You really have to wonder why Aaron had so much allegiance for Moses. Moses is relatively new to being a Hebrew, remember, he didn't find out until he was at the burning bush. Aaron probably knew about his brother, but I'd expect some sort of resentment from him, with his brother who grew up entitled suddenly coming to the family and then leading them off into the desert. But, we never see Aaron questioning Moses. He seems to follow him blindly.

Leviticus 9

After the 7 days in the sweatlodge, Moses calls out Aaron, and gives them a calf and a baby ram to eat.

⁴Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to day the LORD will appear unto you.

Also a full cow, and adult ram, and some bread.

⁹And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:

You probably picture the Aztec altar where there were human sacrifices as bloody altars, places that had body parts laying around, where cadavers were just flung and left where ever they landed. The altar in the tabernacle was probably just as gruesome. There are priests with blood over them, an altar with blood, blood poured around it, it's smokey, and if you are inside, you are probably tripping on holy anointing oil.

Anyway, they killed everything, and put it on the altar.

²²And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.

²³And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.

²⁴And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

God personally consumed the offering with fire. The people saw it, they believed... it won't last.

Points to ponder:

1. They have been in the wilderness for just over a year now, they are already sacrificing animals that have been born on the trip.

2. I really find it odd that the Levites became the entitled class. It's especially odd considering Jacob's blessing, that also went to Simeon.Genesis 49:⁶O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

⁷Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

That doesn't seem like Levi will never have to work. It says they will be scattered. Levi was scattered, but not as a punishment, they were placed in part of everyone else's land. They got it easy. (but that's later on)

3. You will often hear people claiming verses are taken out of context (especially if they disagree with the verse). Many people believe there are verses that can stand alone, and verses that you need to see what comes before and after in order to understand. John 3:16 is an example of a stand alone verse, why? because it's a happy verse. Happy verses don't need anything further around them. Verses that espouse hatred and violence always seem to need some sort of context. There are many verses that we'll come across in Leviticus that the verse in front and the verse behind have nothing to do with anything else. Like in Leviticus 7, where it jumps from offerings, to don't eat blood.

If you look at the context of John 3:16, (John 3:17) it might change your perception of the verse. John 3:17 says that god didn't send his son to the world to condemn the world, but that the world could be saved. It doesn't say that Jesus won't condemn the world, it just says that wasn't his only mission. You are still probably going to go to hell. Like Daniel Tosh said, "what would Jesus do? So I lit him on fire and sent him to Hell"Context only matters if you don't like what a verse says.