Exodus 1

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Exodus 33

God tells Moises to go the promised land he will give to the Israelites and drives out all the peoples. And he calls the Israelites an obstinate people. What a compliment! But he warns Moses that he can exterminate the israelites on their way to the promised land because he knows perfectly them. And he tells moses to warn the Israelites to be careful if they don’t want to be exterminated. And God speaks to Moses face-to-face: what a privilege reserved to a very small number of people! Unbelievable! Impressive! Unforgettable! What an experience! Face to face! What a man! And Joshua is his minister and attendant! And both God and Moses speak together!

 

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Exodus 34

Once again Gow writes the ten commandments on two tablets of stone on Mount Sinai. So once again God makes a covenant with the Israelites. But they must not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the promised land and they must not worship another god because God requires exclusive devotion. They must respect the Sabbath and the religious festivals. And if they act according to god’s will they will be blessed. So Moses stays 40 days and nights on Mount Sinai. When he went down his face was shining because he had been speaking with God.

 

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Exodus 35

Moses tells them what God has commanded according to the sabbath and God’s contribution and the building of the tabernacle with its tent and the Ark and all the furniture going with them and the garments for Aaron and his sons the priests and everybody cmoes to contribute and Bezalel and Oholiab are chosen by God to receive his spirit to make every sort of craftsmanship.

 

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Exodus 36-40

The skilled workers work according to God’s will using the contribution of the Israelites and they bring everything in front of Moses and put everything together. And Moses anoints Aaron and his sons. Then each time Moses and Aaron and his sons enter into the tent of meeting they wash their hands and their feet. When everything was finished, God’s cloud covers the tent of meeting. And every time would do it Moses couldn’t enter into it. When God lifted from the tabernacle, the Israelites would break camp.

 

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Leviticus 1

God tells about how the Israelites must offer animal sacrifices.

Leviticus 2

Grain offerings.

Leviticus 3

More about sacrifices.

Leviticus 4

Sacrifices according to the sins commited by the anointed priest or the entire assembly of Israel or a chieftain or people of the land.

 

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Leviticus 5

Sins of those who do not testify whereas they should do or those who touch anything unclean.

Leviticus 6

- Full compensation for different sins (the same value and an extra fifth of the value) and a offering a sacrifice.

- Explanation about how the priests must do the sacrifices.

- law of the grain offering

- offering of Aaron and his sons when they are anointed

Leviticus 7

- law of the guilt offering

- law of the communion sacrifice

- An animal found dead must not be eaten, whoever eats a dead animal will be killed.

- The Israelites must not eat blood of any animal otherwise they will be killed.

Leviticus 8

Moses gathers the assembly at the entrance of the tent of the meeting. And he washes and dresses Aaron and his sons and he anoints the tabernacle and anything in it and Aaron. Then he also dresses Aaron’s sons. Then the sin offering is made and also the burnt offering and the installation offering ; And Aaron and his sons must eat what is reserved from them from the offerings.

 

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Leviticus 9

Aaron makes sacrifices for all the israelites and God’s glory appears to all the people.

Leviticus 10

Aaron’s two sons make offerings before God using unauthorized fire. As a consequence God kills them by sending a fire. And God tells Aaron that he and his sons must not drink alcohol before entering into the tent of meeting if they don’t want to die.

Leviticus 11

- Clean animals to be eaten and unclean animals not to be eaten.
- dead bodies must not be eaten or touched

Leviticus 12

- uncleanliness of a woman who gives birth

 

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Leviticus 13

- quarantine in case of suspicion of leprosy

Leviticus 14

-cleansing of leprosy

Leviticus 15

- discharge of genital organ

So God gave laws to the jews to protect from diseases which was quite different from what the other nations used to do at the time.

 

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Leviticus 16

- How Aaron must enter into the holy place and what he must do so he won’t die
- No one else must enter when Aaron is inside
- atonement

Leviticus 17

- All sacrifices must be brought to the entrance of the tent of the meeting if people don’t want to die
- sacrifices are only for God
- The Israelites must not eat blood (of every sort of flesh) otherwise they will die
- No foreigner must eat blood (of every sort of flesh) otherwise he will die
- « FOR THE LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD »
- or THE SOUL OF THE FLESH IN THE BLOOD
- or in Hebrew NEPHESH

 

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Leviticus 18

The Israelites must :

- carry out God’s judicial decisions,
- keep his statutes and walk in them,
- not have sexual relations with close relatives,
- not have sexual relations during menstrual impurity,
- not have sexual relations with the wife of another man,
- not offer their offspring to Molech,
- not have homosexual relations,
- not have sexual relations with animals,

Those who do not respect those decisions will be killed.

 

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Leviticus 19

The Israelites must :

- respect their mothers and fathers
- Sabbaths
-offer communion sacrifices to God that are acceptable and what’s left must be eaten the same day or the next and the rest must be burnt in the fire otherwise it will be an error meaning death
- be in fear of God
- judge with justice
- reprove one’s fellow man so not to bear sin along him
- love one’s fellow man as oneself
- keep God’s statutes
- bring one’s guilt offering and the priest will make atonement in case a man lies down with a woman who is a servant designated for another manbut has not been redeemed or given her freedom
-respect God’s sanctuary
- honor old people
-use accurate scales and weights….

The Israelites mustn’t :

- turn to worthless gods
-make gods of cast metal
- pick up the gleaning ot the harvest
- gather the leftovers of the vineyard meaning it must be left forv the poor and the foreign resident
- steal
- deceive
- deal falsely with one another
- swear to a lie in God’s name
- defraud one’s fellow man
- rob
- withhold the wages of a hired worker all night until morning
- curse a deaf man
- put an obstacle before a blind man
- be unjust in one’s judgment
- show partiality to the poor
- show preference to the rich
- go around spreading slander
- stand up against the life of one’s fellow man
- hate one’s brother in one’s heart
- take vengeance
- hold a grudge against the sons of one’s people
- consult spirit mediums or fortune-tellers
- eat a fruit from a tree planted before four years (the third year the fruit is holy for rejoicing before God) but the fifth year
- eat nothing containing blood
- look for omens or practice magic
- shave the hair on the side of one’s head or disfigure the edges of one’s beard
- make cuts on one’s flesh for a dead person
- make tattoo markings on oneself
- dihonor one’s daughter by making her a prostitute
- mistreat a foreign resident
- use dihonest standards in measuring

 

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Leviticus 20

- You mustn’t give your children to molech or you will be stone to death
- You mustn’t turn to the spirit mediums and the fortune-tellers or you will die
- You mustn’t curse your parents or you will die
- You mustn’t commit adultery or you will die
- You mustn’t have sexual intercourse with a beast or you will die
- You mustn’t have sexual intercourse during a woman’s menstruations or you will die

What a difference with out modern society ! In fact human society does everything against God ! It is completely insane ! Poor world !

 

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Leviticus 21

- A priest must not defile himself
- If a priest’s daughter commits prostitution, she profane her father and must be burnt in the fire
- A priest must marry a virgin
- A man can’t be a priest if he has a defect

 

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Leviticus 22

- Aaron and his sons are told to be careful in their service for God.
- If they are unclean they can’t do their service otherwise they will be killed.
- They can’t have leprosy or a discharge and eat of the holy things if they are unclean.
- And they can’t eat any animal found dead.
- Only priests can eat anything holy except their slaves.
- If someone eats a holy thing by mistake, he must pay for it and make an offering to the priest.
- All offerings mustn’t present a defect.

 

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Leviticus 23

The israelites must respect different seasonal festivals :

- The Sabbath
- The Passover
- The Festival of Unleavened Bread
- The Offering of firstfruits
- The Festival of weeks
- The Proper harvesting
- The Festival of trumpet blast
- The Day of Atonement
- The Festival of Booths

 

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Leviticus 24

- The Israelites must bring pure beaten olive oil for the tabernacle lamps to keep the lamps lit constantly.
- 12 Loaves of showbread which are to be eaten by Aaron and his sons.
- An abuser of God’s name must be stoned.
- Someone who kills someone mudt be killed.
- Someone who kills a domestic animal must make a compensation.
- Someone who injures someone must get the same injury.

 

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Leviticus 25

- The Sabbath year (each seventh year = a year of complete rest for the land)
- The Jubilee year (each 49 years = freedom for everybody and restoration of property).
- How to treat the poor.
- Laws on slavery.

 

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Leviticus 26

- The Israelites mustn’t worship false Gods.
- If they follow God he will bless them.
- If they don’t fpllow him, they will pay a high price and his response will be progressive and if they go in exile he will finally remember them because of their ancestors.

 

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Leviticus 27

Redemption of vowed things :
- People
- Animals
- Houses
- Fields
- Firstborn
- Things unconditionally devoted to God.
- Redemption of the tenth parts.

 

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Numbers 1

- Registration of men for the army.
-The Levites exempted from the army.
- Orderly arrangement of the camp.

God is a God of order and everything is well organized. It is so different from human societies which are a pale imitation of his order. And every time it appears to be worse. We have completely forgotten what order means. What a shame ! It is ridiculous !