0 Leviticus : Interpretation

Leviticus : Interpretation (10)

  1. "It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood." 3:17

    Don't eat fat or blood. This is a perpetual commandment from God.

    No one but the Jehovah's Witnesses pay much attention to this perpetual statute. And even they have decided it isn't so perpetual after all.
    JW.org: Jehovah's Witnesses: Each Witness Now Decides Whether to Accept or Donate Main Blood Components

  2. "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.

    This is one of the verses that Jehovah's Witnesses use to forbid blood transfusions - or at least they used to. They have since changed their position to allow most blood transfusions.
    JW.org: Jehovah's Witnesses: Each Witness Now Decides Whether to Accept or Donate Main Blood Components

  3. God killed Aaron's sons by burning them to death and then told Aaron not to mourn them. 10:6

    This was used in a Watchtower video as an example for parents to shun their disfellowshipped children. (The video a lawsuit in Norway addressing the shunning of disfellowshipped children by their parents.)
    Deleted JW Video

  4. "No soul of you shall eat blood." Blood Transfusions 17:10-14

  5. Is it OK to eat blood? 3:17, 7:26-27, 17:10-14, 19:26

  6. "Neither shall ye use enchantment."
    Is magic OK? 19:26, 31

  7. Ye shall not ... observe times."
    Does the bible condemn astrology? 19:26

  8. Does God approve of capital punishment? 20:9-16, 24:16

  9. Does God approve of slavery? 19:13, 19:18, 19:20, 19:33-34, 22:11, 25:10, 25:17, 25:39, 25:44-46

  10. According to God, babies (or fetuses) less than one month old are worth nothing at all. (So I guess the God approves of abortion.) 27:6

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