- Hey Aaron, do you think we should keep the fire on the altar burning? These instructions aren't real clear: "Meanwhile, keep the fire on the Altar burning"; "it must not go out" "Replenish the wood for the fire every morning," "Keep the fire burning continuously." "It must not go out." Did I mention that I am somewhat sarcastic.
- I wondered what they were going to do with the beautiful new robes after the priests were sprinkled with blood in the cleansing ceremonies. Somewhere in the end of Leviticus 6, it says they have to be washed in a holy place. I can't tell you where in Leviticus, because the Message Bible doesn't think we need any verse numbers, just pretty little symbols between sections.
- There should be lots of broken clay pots in the ruins of where the Hebrews camped.
- No wonder they needed offerings of incense. The altar area had to have stunk.
- For goodness sake, don't eat any ritually unclean meat, fat or blood. Say, do you have any good recipes for right thigh that doesn't involve boiling it in it's mother's milk? I'm just plumb out of ideas! Oh, a recipe for a 36-hour stew - no can do!
- The mysterious Urim and Thummim can be placed in a small small pouch.
- Notice that Moses doesn't have to be consecrated to be able to consecrate the Levites.
- Why has the phone rung three times at church after 9:00pm?
- After Aaron has been in seclusion for purification for seven days, the first thing they have to do is make an absolution offering for himself. What did he have to absolve for - this is so complicated!
- God's glory shown, and He showed them something new, fire blazing out from his glory can consume things, like Nadab and Abihu, who were trying an unsuccessful incense experiment - hey, Abihu, this smells good, you think God will like it? I don't know, Nadab, let's see. (What does an idiot say just before he dies? "Hey, watch this!")
- Aaron was silent. Probably because his chin was on the ground.
- Apparently the desert wilderness was akin to "The Twilight Zone". Eat animals with split hooves that chew their cud, but not if they only have a split hoof and don't chew their cud, or chew their cud but don't have a split hoof. (Who wants to eat a rock badger anyway?) Got it? Next rule, please.
- If I step on the carcass of a dead animal with my sandle, have I technically touched it? Cause my clothes are still wet from cleaning them after I touched the piece of wood that a dead lizard had been lying on.
- What's wrong with Leviticus - there is excellent material here for a Hebrew comedian.
- I had a baby daughter and I only got six weeks off, God allows 80 days!
- Hey, Elzaphan, you've got blister checkin' duty today - you drew the short straw.
- Why do you have to show the fungus-infected clothing to the Priest - why wouldn't you just throw it out?
- My stomach is literally feeling queasy reading this stuff.
- How did one altar keep up with the massive amount of sacrificing that would have had to have been done for this huge group of people?
- Mishael, quit laughing at Elzaphan. You've drawn the straw for house-fungus checking.
- Okay, the opening from chapter 15 is TMI. And given that you have to bring an article of fungus-infected clothing to the priest to have it declared unclean, I'd venture that this is a no-brainer that this fellow is going to be spending some time alone. Yeah, let's include all of chapter 15 in the "ewww" category.
- Origin of scapegoat - chapter 16.
- What/where was Azazel?
- Day of Atonement, Sabbath of all Sabbath's - tenth day of the seventh month.
Hey, I was having so much fun, I actually read a chapter ahead. I better head for home!
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