The Bible Slam: Leviticus Chapter 07

The Israelites are commanded not to eat fat or blood.   More instructions are given for different sacrifices for the burnt offering, the guilt offering, the trespass offering, the peace offering and other consecrations.   The trespass offering is "the most holy."   People caught eating fat, blood or eating sacrificial meats when they are unclean will be cut off from the community.   The usual blood sprinkling/splattering instructions are also given.

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Discussion Points.

We are told in Leviticus Chapter 7 that:

7:35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;

7:36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.

If this is the inerrant word of God, why aren't people still following these statutes that are to be kept forever?   As we learned in Chapter 6, the fire at the altar was to be kept burning perpetually, too.

The chapter concludes with a note that God gave Moses all of these commands at Mt. Sinai.   All of these different sacrifices seem awfully complicated … why didn't God carve them onto stone, too, like the ten commandments, so that Moses wouldn't have to try to remember all of them?

We are also told at the end of Leviticus that the Israelites were living in the wilderness of Sinai.   As mentioned previously, they were supposedly eating manna for 40 years during their travels to Canaan … where did all of these animals come from?   Why are there instructions for meat and bread eating if all these people had to eat was manna?

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