moses 5-4-3 continued
session 2 continued
part 2 leviticus
until now summarized genesis and exodus 42000 words of 92000 and a long way to go!
leviticus begins with six chapters about sacrifices- with details of the same sacrifice written separately from each other. i wonder of josepus fixed in response to the flawed original or "leviticus" was stretched from the original with repetitions. the volume of repetitions is so great i believe that the original, as god wanted it written, was preserved in josepus and the rabbis stretched it with extra words and repetitions to fulfill "make the teaching big" in isaiah 42.21
there are many types of sacrifices: "up" and flour, peace and sin 1-6 also 7.12 a thank-sacrifice. the sacrifices kill:
cows or sheep and-
birds or wheat- that rhymes sort of. the ceremony 8 [repeating exodus 29] for appointing the family of priests is significantly different from the parallel in josepus. aron 9.22 blessed everyone with the a priestly blessing.
arons sons offered a "gift" something 10.1 "not commanded". they thought god would like their "initiative" as a gift but god called it "foreign"and sons died- how? i censor. no pictures kiddies.
is this book really fit for children to read? i doubt it!
we know enough to limit videos to certain ages and many of the stories in the bible should not be read to children under age 14 at least.
bibles should come with warnings like computer games- that would warn parents to protect the youngsters and also serve to make it cool enough for teenagers!
or they can read this summary.
the lesson of this story is DO NOT ADD!!
the sons of aron added something original with good intentions to give to god but god does not want additions and punished them with death as a warning that we should not add any ceremony unless god says so. that means do not listen to rabbis who add ceremonies for passover even if they say "i say that god said you must obey me" or wrote it in mishna- because god showed his wrath on those who add-
those who add any act or "sin" prohibition, that god "did not command" like 10.1, for example the search for leaven for passover- we know what awaits them on judgement day.
moses explains which animals 11 to eat [and although not written i am certain that the vegetarians left this lecture as a protest]. when a child is born 12.4 keep away from the holy tent- but come later with a sacrifice. chapters 13-14 are the laws of "discolorations". chapter fifteen is very personal and parents can explain it as they want. the religious jews have a rule about menstruation which conflicts this chapter- in which not only is a command to prohibit relations with a menstruant absent, but also the result IS "he is like her" and both stay away far from the holy tent until later. no punishment results and no death penalty in contrast to the mishna kritut. no command for her to wash in a ritual bath, and as we learn from aaron's sons: god hates those who ADD. especially if the change is used to collect monthly fees at the ritual bath.
ceremonies for the 16 day of atonement- to clean sins with 17.11 blood . redeem=kapar.
what follows is a frightening mistranslation in chapter 18.
only one instance has the word "lay" in this list of laws. to claim this is a list of laws forbidding "lay" with a relative is baseless and inaccurate because only 18.22 has this verb: lay. others are something else. what? the hebrew word "tgala" and "erwa" both mean reveal according to oral law in radak, "do not reveal what she reveals" seems like violating the trust of a relative to "come close to reveal what she reveals" in trust.
the only command on this list with laying is for man laying with man, with gods opinion of this act. because of legal limitations i may only quote gods opinion as translated in kjv "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." god is so "intolerant". next- the greatest command must be emphasized "love thy fellow"19.18, even if he sins and even if he lays with men we must be tolerant, and not judge nor condemn and leave the judging for god. i still would tell my son not to do it, and to anyone who asks me, but nobody asked me!
more laws 20-25 so varied it is difficult to summarize jesus emphasized two commands in leviticus so they are worth singling out: love thy fellow and "For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death" by who? by god of course! for a human to judge would be murder and the wording is "be put to death" no command for anyone to execute the sinner. it is repeating exodus 21.17 which might not truly be part of exodus. before we end session 2 we must analyze the holidays in chapter 23. in the next part.
footnote: if i were obsessed i would talk about circumcision here too because in leviticus 12 the word appears yet again but i wrote enuf about it already, so i only point out what is absent: the place to cut, and the word "cut" and the word "skin" which will appear soon after by skin discolorations.
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