Leviticus 13-15
Today we get:
- Leprosy and scall
- Issues and seed shooting
- Women's issues
Leviticus 13
As leprosy isn't very prevalent these days, we don't really need an in depth study of this chapter.
At the time though, it was important enough that some of the original 613 laws dealt with leprosy. Just know this, if you get leprosy, you need to:
45 And 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.
Rip your clothes, shave your head, cover your upper lip and walk around yelling "unclean unclean!" Oh, and you are kicked out of camp until it goes away.
Leviticus 14.
More leprosy...
Apparently houses can get leprosy too. (Lev. 14:35)
Leviticus 15
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
If you are bleeding, or oozing, you are unclean!
Whilst oozing, what ever you touch becomes unclean. If anyone touches you, they are unclean until they wash their clothes, take a bath, and wait until the sun goes down.
If an unclean person spits on you, you are unclean. (Lev 15:8)
After you are done oozing, you need to wait 7 days, wash your clothes and take a bath, then you are clean.
Take 2 turtledoves or pigeons to the priest. One is a sin offering, one is a burnt offering.
16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
If a man has sex, he needs to take a bath, and is unclean until the sun goes down.
18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.
Note, if a man lies with another man, they get cleaned with stones... hehe.
19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
Why would anyone touch a woman who is having .. her... um... thingy?
Whatever touches her is unclean, whatever she sits on, sleeps on, those are all unclean.
24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
EEEWWW!!!!
25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
If her period lasts longer than a week, she needs to stay separated. If that happens, when she's done.. um... bleeding, she needs to sacrifice two turtledoves or pigeons. One is a sin offering, the other a burnt offering. Because having a period for longer than a week is a sin!
31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
God hates those that defile His tabernacle. Remember, just yesterday he killed two of Aaron's sons for the wrong incense.
PRAISE JESUS!!!
So what have we learned:
1. Leprosy has a chapter and a half dedicated to it, it must have been very important. There is more information in the Bible (KJV1611) on dealing with leprosy, than there is on baptism.
2. Oozing is a sin!
3. Don't touch a woman on her period.
4. Don't have sex with a woman on her period.
YIC
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