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Regarding our travels through the Book of Leviticus we are presently at the tale end of a section known as the Holiness Code whereby God is articulating to His people a new way they were to live that was both sanctified to Him as well as consecrated for His purposes. To accomplish this He takes five chapters (Leviticus 11-15) to classify and designate certain things and behaviors as being either “unclean” (prohibited) and/or “clean” (permissible).

Over the last few weeks, on a wide array of various topics, we’ve seen God tell His people, “In order for Me to create you into a people so fundamentally different from the world that you’d be a light unto the world of a better way to live, I want you to know it’s ok for you to do this, but not ok for you to do that. You can enjoy these things, but not those. I want you to handle these type of situations that way and not the way everyone else handles them.”

In chapter 11 we worked our way through what is commonly referred to as the Dietary Guidelines. As the Hebrews approached the Land of Promise — through these prohibitions to their diet — God wanted them to always remember they were not scavengers nor were they to be predators. They were to place their complete trust in Him for their provisions.

In chapter 12 we see an incredible demonstration of God’s grace towards a woman who’d just given birth to a child. While the curse of sin had resulted in a real pain in childbirth, God tenderly establishes a framework whereby the woman had time to rest, heal, and nurse.

In chapters 13-14 God laid out a very specific set of guidelines for how the people were to handle leprosy or in the Hebrew language tsara`ath (sigh·ra·ath). While the ancient cultures viewed all sickness as being the judgment of the gods, in this new ordering of things the God of Israel makes an important distinction between His judgment and normal illnesses.

Not only does He establish a very detailed set of procedures for how the priests were to diagnose a leprous infection in an individual, an outbreak in a person’s clothing, or leprosy discovered in a physical dwelling, but God also lays out protocols for what was to be done when a person judged by God on account of sin also experienced His cleansing touch.

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