April 13 Readings

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King James Version with Web Encyclopedia Links:Leviticus 15

Today's Reading Leviticus 15

Leviticus 15 dealt with bodily discharges that caused uncleaness both in men (2-15); or the discharge of semen (16-18), female uncleaness caused by monthly period (9-24) or lengthy periods of hemorrhaging (25-30); a recap of these bodily discharges. Notice in all these instances the person became unclean until some prescribed action is taken such as the person bathing with water and washing the clothes or materials that the bodily discharges touch. Any person who became in contact with these bodily discharges, were also unclean, until they washed with water and were in insolation for a certain period of time.

We should mention that when Jesus was on the way to Jairus house in Mark 5.22-43, a woman with a lengthy period of hemorrhaging, with no hope for cure from medicine of that day, had FAITH, and touched Jesus. She, too, were subjected to the public health laws of Leviticus.



It was a horrible thing to be unclean in that society during the Old Testament and Jesus' days., especially if you had leprosy such as the lepers or the woman with the bleeding for an extended period of time. You were literally an outcast in that society. What about today, we have people who have the HIV-Aids virus. Are we as Christians concerned about them as Jesus is. Can you imagine, Jesus touched the leper, and the woman touched Him, he was, by the requirements of the Levitical regulations unclean. But, He is the Lord over these rules and regulations. The Pharisees went beyond the requirement of the law and made the requirements so cumbersome on the people. The intent behind this section of Leviticus is for the people to have safeguard against diseases in this type of public health system, with the priests acting as doctors. The word unclean came up a lot. We may also be unclean in a spiritual sense, we need to be cleansed by the blood of Jesus.

Leviticus 15 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Stedman on Leviticus 15
Offending God: The Clean and the Unclean—Part II (Leviticus 12-15)-Deffinbaigh
Guzik on Leviticus 15

Links to Commentaries and other References - Leviticus

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