Sunday Sermonette: What not to eat

Leviticus has all of these elaborate (and highly repetitive) instructions delivered to Moses by God while the people are camped out in the desert subsisting on magic cookies that appear overnight. Just sayin ' . In reality, of course, these rituals and rules must have developed over time and then were codified in this form. The puzzle is the rationale for all of this. None is offered in the text, it all seems arbitrary. We can see the priests making a substantial profit from the deal, which certainly can explain some of it, but much else is mysterious.Regarding ch. 3, the Revised New Standard Version calls this instructions for a " sacrifice of well being. " KJV translates this as a " peace offering, " while the New International Version (which I present here) calls it a " fellowship offering. " Since the Hebrew is evidently ambiguous, we can ' t be sure why people would make this particular sacrifice. This is the case with most of this material. The very similar ceremonies are called by various names, some of them mysterious and some of them specified for clear purposes; and they all contain seemingly arbitrary elements which nevertheless are said to be very meaningful to The Lord. Here is the text of Ch. 3, followed by some additional commentary of my own.3 “‘If your offering is a fellowship offering, and you offer an animal from the herd, whether male or female, you are to present before theLord an animal without defect.2 You are to lay your hand on the head ...
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