I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. 16:2
Trivia: In Leviticus 26, what did God say he would force you to eat if you disobey him?
I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. 16:2
Trivia: In Leviticus 26, what did God say he would force you to eat if you disobey him?
"Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God." 21:16-23
Handicapped people cannot approach the altar of God. They would "profane" it.
"If a soul shall sin through ignorance ... kill the bullock before the LORD." 4:1-12
The offering for a congregation that sins through ignorance: A bullock (blemished or unblemished) 4:13-21
The offering for a ruler who sins through ignorance: A young unblemished male goat 4:22-25
The offering for a common person who sins through ignorance: A young unblemished female sheep or goat 4:27-35
"If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance...." 5:14-15
If you sin without knowing that you've done anything wrong, kill an unblemished ram for God.
"If a soul sin ... though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity." 5:17
If you sin against your own will, you are still guilty.
"If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day ... it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity." 7:18
Don't eat any of your dead sacrificial animals on the third day after you kill them. That is an abomination to God and he will never forgive you for it!
"The soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings ... having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people." 7:20
Don't eat any sacrificed animals while you have your uncleanness upon you. If you do, you'll be "cut off."
"The soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people." 7:21
If you touch any unclean thing (like "the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any other abominable unclean thing") while eating sacrificed animals, you will be "cut off" from your people.
"Ye shall eat no manner of fat ... For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people." 7:23-25
Be careful what you eat during these animal sacrifices. Don't eat fat or you will be exiled.
"Ye shall eat no manner of blood ... Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people." 7:26-27
Don't eat blood. Whoever does will be exiled.
"There went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD." 10:1-2
Two of the sons of Aaron "offered strange fire before the Lord", so God burned them to death.
"And Aaron held his peace. 10:3
Moses tells Aaron that his sons were burned to death to sanctify and glorify God. And Aaron said nothing.
"Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people." 10:4-6
Moses tells Aaron's cousins to drag the burned bodies out of the camp, and he warns Aaron not to mourn the death of his sons or God will kill him too, along with everyone else.
Ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die." 10:7
God will kill any priest that leaves the tabernacle (because they were annointed by God).
"Do not drink wine nor strong drink ... when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever." 10:8-9
If priests misbehave at the tabernacle by drinking "wine or strong drink", then God will kill them.
"She shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or dove, for a sin offering ... and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood." 12:6-7
Women must be cleansed from the blood of childbirth with the bloody sacrifice of an animal to God.
"The leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean." 13:45-46
Lepers must tear up their clothes, not wear hats, cover their upper lips, and cry "unclean, unclean."They are defiled, unclean, and must live alone, away from everyone else.
"When ye be come into the land of Canaan ... I put the plague of leprosy in ... the land of your possession." 14:34
God "put the plague of leprosy" on the Canaanites.
"The LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron ... that he come not at all times into the holy place ... that he die not. 16:1-2
God warns Aaron not to come to the holy place or he might have to burn him to death like he did his sons. (10:1-2)
"Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat." 16:8-28
God explains the use of scapegoats. It goes like this: Get two goats. Kill one. Wipe, smear, and sprinkle the blood around seven times. Then take the other goat, give it the sins of all the people, and send it off into the wilderness.
"Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness. And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities." 16:21-22
"Whosoever shall commit any of these abominations ... shall be cut off from among their people." 18:29
"If it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable ... every one that eateth it ... that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 19:6-8
Don't eat sacrifices on the third day or God will cut you off from among your people.
"Whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged." 19:20-22
If a man has sex with an engaged slave woman, scourge the woman, but don't punish the man. (Even if he raped her?)
"Whosoever ... giveth ... his seed unto Molech ... the people ... shall stone him with stones." 20:2
If you refuse to kill someone who gives his seed to Molech, God set his face against you and your family. 20:4-5
Stay away from people with familiar spirits and don't "go a whoring" after them either. 20:6
"For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death."
Couldn't we try spanking first? 20:9
"The adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 20:10
Both parties in adultery shall be executed.
"And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." 20:11
If a man has sex with his father's wife, kill them both.
"If a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them." 20:12
If a man "lies" with his daughter-in-law, then both must be killed.
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 20:13
If a man has sex with another man, kill them both.
"And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they." 20:14
If you "lie" with your wife and your mother-in-law (that sounds like fun!), all three of your must be burned to death.
And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. 20:15-16
If a man or woman "lie with a beast" both the person and the poor animal are to be killed.
"A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them." 20:27
People with "familiar spirits" (witches, fortune tellers, etc.) are to be stoned to death.
"And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire." 21:9
A priest's daughter who "plays the whore" is to be burned to death.
"Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God." 21:16-17
No one with a blemish cannot approach the altar of God.
"Whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken ... he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God." 21:18-21
No blind, lame, short, or otherwise defective people (in God' eyes) may appoach God's altar.
A man who is unclean, or is a leper, or has a "running issue", or "whose seed goeth from him", or who touches any dead or "creeping thing" ... "shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean." 22:3-5
No stranger or slave can "eat of the holy thing." 22:10, 13
"But if the priest buy any soul with his money ..." It must be OK to buy slaves; even priests do it. 22:11
If a priest's daughter marries "a stranger" she can't eat any holy things. 22:12
Don't do any work on the day of atonement or God will destroy you. 23:29-30
A man curses and blasphemes while disputing with another man. Moses asks God what to do about it. God says that the whole community must stone him to death. "And the children of Israel did as the Lord and Moses commanded." 24:10-23
Anyone who blasphemes or curses shall be stoned to death by the entire community. 24:16
"He that killeth any man shall surely be put to death." 24:17
"If a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him." 24:19
"Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again." 24:20
"He that killeth a man, he shall be put to death." 24:21
God's instructions for buying your brother for a slave. 25:39
God tells the Israelites to make slaves out of their neighbors and their families. The "heathens" and "strangers" are to be their possessions forever. 25:44-46
God tells the Israelites to "chase" their enemies and make them "fall before you by the sword." He figures five of the Israelites will be able to "chase" a hundred of their enemies, and a hundred will be able to "put ten thousand to flight." 26:7-8
If you don't follow all of the laws in the Old Testament, God will shower you with all of the curses in the next 25 verses. 26:14-15
"I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." 26:16
"I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies." 26:17
"And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins." 26:18
"I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins." 26:21
"I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle." 26:22
"I ... will punish you yet (another) seven times for your sins." 26:24
"I will bring a sword upon you ... I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy." 26:25
"And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me ... then ... I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins." 26:27-28
"And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." 26:29
"I will ... cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you." 26:30
"And I will make your cities waste." 26:31
"And I will bring the land into desolation". 26:32
"And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste." 26:33
"And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth." 26:36
"And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies." 26:37
"And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up." 26:38
"And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them." 26:39
God defines the value of human life in dollars and cents. Of course, to God, females are worth considerably less than males (50 - 60%) -- but neither are worth much. 27:3-7
All "devoted" things (both man and beast) "shall surely be put to death." 27:28-29
