Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Leviticus 23-24

OOh this next section is about sacred feasts: Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Pentecost, Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah), Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) and Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)! But before he starts to talk about the feasts, he mentions that the seventh day of the week is a Sabbath day and we don't do any work. You aren't to do any work on a sacred feast day either. Some of these last for 7 days, so you don't do work on the first and last days.

Passover - celebrated on the 14th day of the 1st month.
Unleavened Bread - day after Passover. Don't eat bread with yeast for 7 days.
Firstfruit - bring the first grain you harvest to the priest. Bring a burn offering of the lamb along with your grain offering. No bread or grain until you bring this offering to God.
Feast of Pentecost - count off 7 weeks and present an offering of new grain to God and a burnt offering of seven male lambs, one young bull, and two rams.
Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) - celebrated by trumpet blasts.
Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) - celebrated on the tenth day of the seventh month. Anyone who works today will be destroyed.
Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) - celebrated on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. Present offerings to God for 7 days.

I'm not sure what a booth looks like, but you have to live in one for 7 days to commemorate when they were brought out of Egypt.

The lamps outside of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting is supposed to burn continually, so the Lord commanded the Israelites to bring olive oil. Bread should be set out before the Lord regularly as a lasting covenant. It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy part of the offerings.

The case of the blasphemer

A fight broke out between a half-Egyptian, half-Israelite and an Israelite. The mixed ethnic guy cursed God, so they brought him to Moses. The Lord said to Moses that anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord must be put to death. The town heard that and stoned the guy to death. God also brought up more punishments like life for life, tooth for tooth, eye for eye.

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