April 12 Readings

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READING LIST FOR LAW AND HISTORY

King James Version with Web Encyclopedia Links:Leviticus 13; Leviticus 14

Today's Reading Leviticus 13-14

Leviticus 13 deals with the regulation of skin diseases including leprosy. Public health sytem was set up in the camp where there were some two million people. The last thing the camp needed in the middle of the wilderness was a spread of diseases. According to the NIV Study Bible, there was an initial examination of the symptoms of the skin disease (v. 1-8) then examination of raw flesh (v. 9-17), boils (v. 18-23), burns (v. 24-26), sores on the head or chin (v. 29-37) and white spots (v. 38-39), and skin diseases on the head that cause baldness (v. 40-44). There was also concern about mildew that ocurred in rainy season (47-59). In all cases, it was the priest who was the public health official, who examine the person, and is the one who can give a clean bill of health. (Leviticus 14) Note that all skin diseases mentioned here may not be leprosy.

What about us? We should not only be concern about our spiritual well-being but should strive to be healthy. What spiritual application do you find out of these passages? Is there a command or warning? A person whose example we can follow, or someone whose example we should not follow.

Leviticus 14 deals with the ceremonial cleansing from infectious skin diseases (v. 1-32) and cleansing from mildew (v. 33-54). Again this is a public health issue. The ceremonial cleansing from an infectious skin disease involves examination by the priest, if the person was healed, two live birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop is brought for the for the one to be cleansed. A certain protocol was done with these including having one of the birds killed. The person cleansed took a bath and then went through an isolation period, after that he saw the priest and offered up a guilt offering. Anyway, it was an involved process for ceremonial cleansing. The leper who was cured by Jesus in Mark 1.44 and Luke 5.14 where Jesus said "..But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them."



We do not have many cases of leprosy in the United States but throughout the world the disease is still prevalent. Link to a Christian ministry for leprosy.

Leviticus 13 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Leviticus 14 with Commentaries, verse by verse

Links to Commentaries and other References - Leviticus

Offending God: The Clean and the Unclean—Part II (Leviticus 12-15)-Deffinbaigh
Stedman on Leviticus 12 and 13

Bible Study Tools
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How to Become a Christian

This Posting is NOT a commentary of the passages read today but it is a devotional. Please send a comment if something spoke to you today from the passages, links or thoughts that I have shared with you.