LEVITICUS Lesson 11 – Chapter 8 Just as chapters 6 and 7 were a unit, so is Leviticus chapters 8, 9, and 10. These 3 chapters will present us with the ordination of the first priesthood of Israel. To be clear, all the previous chapters of Leviticus, including the last several of Exodus, lay out […]

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LEVITICUS Lesson 10 – Chapters 6 and 7 We have a lot of detail to discuss today, so please do your best to stay focused. This is not unlike learning your multiplication tables; it at times seems tedious while you’re doing it but if you have any hope of being able to progress and deal […]

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LEVITICUS Lesson 9 – Chapters 5 and 6 We began last week to deal with a new class of sacrificial offerings, the asham , that covered another aspect of sin and atonement: making reparations for what one had done whether the offense was intentional and known, or inadvertent and the person didn’t consciously realize he […]

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LEVITICUS Lesson 8 – Chapter 5 We should see Chapter 5 as but a continuation of Chapter 4. In fact, the specific sacrificial ritual of Chapter 4 extends into the first 13 verses of Chapter 5……but then it changes. Put another way, the uses for the Hatta’at sacrifice, the Purification Offering, are ordained from Lev […]

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LEVITICUS Lesson 7 – Chapter 4 Continued We left off studying Leviticus chapter 4. And, in chapter 4 we get a new kind, a new type, of sacrificial offering called the Hatta’at…….the Purification Offering. Some translators call this the Sin Offering. However, I think this translated name misses the point as this offering is not […]

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LEVITICUS Lesson 6 – Chapter 4 Let’s review a little. So far, we’ve looked at 3 different sacrifices, also called “offerings”: the ‘Olah……the burnt offering; the Minchah……the grain offering; and the Zevah…..the peace offering. Each had different purposes and occasions for their use. All had in common that the offering, whether animal or grain, had […]

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LEVITICUS Lesson 5 – Chapter 3 We have now looked at the two types of burnt offerings; that is, two types of sacrifices that were placed onto the Brazen Altar and consumed by fire. And those were the ‘Olah and the Minchah. The ‘Olah involved the burning up of animals, the Minchah the burning up […]

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LEVITICUS Lesson 4 – Chapter 2 In Leviticus chapter 1, we looked at the sacrificial ritual call in Hebrew ‘Olah ……what we typically translate as the “burnt offering”. And we saw that this offering concerned the burning up of animals, from Bulls, to Sheep, to birds and this burning was to be complete….nothing was to […]

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LEVITICUS Lesson 3 – Chapter 1 We spent the first 2 weeks of our Leviticus study simply preparing the background and laying the groundwork to make Leviticus more understandable, enjoyable, and hopefully, meaningful. I would like to reiterate from an earlier lesson a few principles that we need to keep in mind in our study: […]

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LEVITICUS Lesson 2 – Introduction Continued Last week we looked at some basics about Leviticus to set the stage for our study. This week, before we get into the details of the “burnt offering” which is the first subject of the first chapter of Leviticus and a very specific type of the several types of […]

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