Leviticus 6:8-7:21 – More Details

Read Leviticus 6:8-7:21

Lest there be any questions about what Moses has already shared about offerings, God makes some quick clarifications. I do apologize for the longer reading than normal. It’s not my usual “Devotions on the Go!” style. But since offerings are not presented in this way anymore, I made an exception to move on. I may even do this in future readings because some of the laws we’ll encounter are not ones we practice as Christians.

It’s important for me at least to know all of the laws God felt were necessary for his people. We’ve already seen how they have been for the “good health” of his people. To have such rituals in place, God’s people would have to be active in their faith in ways we don’t have to. Continue reading “Leviticus 6:8-7:21 – More Details”

Deuteronomy 23:1-14 – Being Unclean

Read Deuteronomy 23:1-14

This whole idea of being unclean seems a little foreign to us today. It would be easy to say being unclean is when people need a shower or forget their deodorant. We may even picture a vagrant on the street who hasn’t changed their clothes in weeks. But in Biblical terms, being unclean was a state of being “unworthy” of being in God’s presence due to some circumstance, action, or lack of action, etc. When you were unclean, you were not allowed access to God and often shunned by the community.

It was interesting to see the different things that Moses declared deemed you unclean. Eunuchs, illegitimate children (and their descendants), Ammonites and Moabites (and their descendants), and men having wet dreams. This was the short list. Clearance and exclusion from this list were the Edomites and Egyptians. But the Ammonites and Moabites were also distant relatives of the Israelites, being from the family of Lot (Abraham’s nephew). But the promise to be God’s people was given to Jacob, several generations beyond.

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