Leviticus 19
2Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
We are going to be getting a lot of those leviticacisms.
3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Not just honor, but also fear. According to Eastons Bible Dictionary, this isn't the "I'm scared" kind of fear, but it means
4. (n.) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.Sometimes fear does mean both reverence and abject terror. Like fear of the LORD.
4Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
This seems to be a retelling of the ten commandments. Honor father and mother, no false idols, remember sabbath...
5And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
6It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.
7And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.
Ok, that doesn't follow the ten commandment outline. Offerings must be used in the first two days, the third day it's an abomination.9And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
If you are a farmer, you are supposed to not harvest the corners of the field. You also aren't allowed to go back and pick up anything you missed. That's for the poor. Additionally, you aren't allowed to pick every grape from your vineyard.
11Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
Back to the 10 commandments. Here is an express prohibition against telling a lie to each other. The 10 commandment "bear false witness" was for in court, not just don't tell a lie.
14Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Even though it's fun, you shouldn't trip a blind person.
15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
That didn't say "judge not". That said judge righteously. Often when you hear someone yelling "judge not" they leave off the important part.
Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
If you judge, you just need to be prepared to be held to the same standard yourself. If you are prepared for judgment, then there really isn't a problem with judging others.
19Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
No succotash fields.
But here we have the prohibition against mixed fiber garments. A blend is an abomination in the eyes of the god of the old testament.
How to be the biggest abomination: on a Sunday, wake up early; have sex with your wife while she's on her period; then go do some office work that you brought home with you; it doesn't matter if you shower you are unclean until even; have a bacon, egg, chicken breast, and cheese sandwich for breakfast; get dressed in a shirt that is a cotton/poly blend; then go to church; go to Red Lobster afterward and get the shrimp/lobster combo. I think that covers most of it.
23And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
When they go into Israel, the fruit planted by the current inhabitants was unclean.
26Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
That doesn't mean, don't have a calendar. Observe times is actualy augury, which means to divine (fortune telling) based on the flights of birds.
27Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Orthodox Jews don't cut their sideburns, and don't shave their beards. My belief about the meaning of this verse, is that it is a prohibition against looking like an Egyptian.
Facial Hair (Specifically Beards) in Ancient Egypt
Nevertheless, early in the Dynastic period, shaving seems to have become fashionable, at least amongst the noble elements of society. Later, shaving spread to the rest of the population, which had a rather understandable tendency to follow the customs of higher society
In death, the kings were frequently portrayed wearing the divine Osird form of the beard, which was a long, narrow beard of several strands plaited like a pigtail with the end jutting forward...That pretty much describes a goatee. Looking at the context of the people leaving Egypt, and attempting to leave behind the Egyptian ways, it makes sense to tell the people that they can't look like an Egyptian.
29Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
Um, they needed a law for that?
35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Have correct measurements.Leviticus 20
2Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
If you sacrifice your child to another god, you will be killed.
6And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Which is why Lamentations was written, because god promised to cut off a small infected part before it overtook the entire body... oh wait.
9For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
What is the punishment for breaking "honor thy father and mother"? Death.
What is the punishment for adultery?Death.
10And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
What is the punishment for sleeping with your dad's wife (not your mother)?
11And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Also, with your daughter in law.
13If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Previously we learned that homosexual sex was an abomination. Now we learn that it is a crime punishable by death. Jesus didn't change that law.
23And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Not only is there the prohibition against doing the Egyptian things, there's also commands to not do the same thing as the current inhabitants of the land. The people have to come up with their own culture.
25Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
remember, Noah, didn't have that list. He didn't have the prohibition against clean and unclean (of course he didn't eat flesh), so how did he know the clean/unclean animals?
27A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
Except when they are important to the story.
Leviticus 21
This chapter is some rules for Aaron and his sons.
5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
No tattoos.
7They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
That seems like there was a problem with whores in the area. Also of divorces.
9And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Burn girls that sleep around. (but only if they are Aaron's granddaughters)
13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
He only gets to marry a virgin.17Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
Offspring of Aaron who have ... um... issues, aren't allowed to be priests.
18For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
19Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
20Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
21No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
Those people aren't allowed to give the offerings to god. They can't go inside the vail. God doesn't really want to see any of the cast of Freaks offering him sacrifices. He is holy, he is clean, he doesn't want anyone who isn't to go near him.
Especially not the black worm guy in the center of the first row.
Points to ponder:
1. Do you fear the god of the old testament? You should. If you don't fear him, you should at least fear his followers.
2. If you believe/follow/value the bible, why don't you kill homosexuals?
3. If you believe/follow/value the bible, do you wear mixed fiber clothes?
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