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Leviticus (Holiness of God) (How can a Holy God live with sinfull people…
Leviticus (Holiness of God)
How can a Holy God live with sinfull people (Leviticus 1-16)
Sacrificial system
Priestly mediation
Day of Atonement
How must God's people live to reflect the holiness of God (Rest of Leviticus)
Leviticus 19 (You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy - Leviticus 19:2b)
Leviticus 19: 3-10:
Be Holy by Obeying God from the Heart
v3-4: 1st 4 of the 10 commandments
v9-10 Care for the poor
v5-8: Offerings
Leviticus 19: 11-18:
Be Holy by Loving Others
v18b: but you shall love your neighbor as yourself
v11-12: prohibited stealing, lying, and swearing falsely
v13-14: cheating, robbing, and taking advantage of laborers or disabled people
v15-16 showing partiality in court and slandering others
v17-18 and hating one’s brother, not rebuking sin, and failing to forgive
Leviticus 19: 19-31:
Be Holy by Being Different from the World
v19-25: These commands would make Israel stand out among the surrounding nations. God’s holiness affected how the Israelites tended animals, planted crops, wove clothes, treated slaves, and harvested fruit.
v26-31
The Israelites were to live worshipful lives that showed they belonged to the God of Israel. Whether sacrifice or agriculture, all was to be done in submission to God.
v26, 31As Israel worshiped the holy God, they were not to participate in pagan rituals. They were to forsake divination, sorcery, and mediums
v27-28 They were not to participate in practices particularly associated with pagan worship, such as shaving the sides of their heads, disfiguring their beards, cutting their flesh (in respect for the dead), or tattooing their bodies
v29: Neither could they prostitute their daughters, probably referring to service in an idol’s temple
v30: Instead of such false worship, the Israelites were to reflect God’s holiness by keeping the Sabbath and revering the tabernacle
Leviticus 19:32-37:
Be Holy by Honoring the Weak
v32-37
v32: While elderly people and foreigners were often ostracized, God commanded the Israelites to honor the elderly (and thus show their fear of God)
v33-34: and to treat the foreigners as native-born Israelites and love them as the Israelites loved themselves
v35–36: command that whoever was selling had to use honest measurements and not cheat people who were without the power to check the seller’s calculations.