Topic:Enjoying our Priesthood Keep my commands and follow them. I am the Lord. Do not profane my holy name, for I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites. I am the Lord, who made you holy and who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am …
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Topic:Free to Serve They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Leviticus 21:6a In the Gospel according to Leviticus, we come to a section which is specifically addressed to priests, to Aaron the high priest and his sons. This family was set …
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Topic:Power To Do I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from the nations. You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground …
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Topic:What Not to Mix Together Keep my decrees. Do not mate different kinds of animals. Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material. Leviticus 19:19 How many of you are observing that last law? Almost all garments today …
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Topic:The Truth about Sex No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the Lord. Leviticus 18:8 Next to the preservation of life the most powerful human drive is sex. Sex, as we are beginning to understand these days, is like a great river which, …
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Topic:Handling Life This is so the Israelites will bring to the Lord the sacrifices they are now making in the open fields. They must bring them to the priest, that is, to the Lord, at the entrance to the tent of meeting and sacrifice them as fellowship offerings…. They must …
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Topic:The Day of Atonement When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat. He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and …
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Topic:Dealing with the Discharges of Life When a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his clothes and bathe himself with fresh water, and he will be clean. On the eighth day he must take two doves …
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Topic:The Need for Cleansing The priest is to go outside the camp and examine them. If they have been healed of their defiling skin disease, the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop be brought for the person to be cleansed. …
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Topic:Dealing with the Leprosy of Life When anyone has a defiling skin disease, they must be brought to the priest. Leviticus 13:9 The purpose of this chapter is to enable the detection of leprosy. When the Bible uses this term, it is not merely referring to the disease that we …
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