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Nocturnal emission leviticus1/12/2024 ![]() ![]() An emission of semen caused uncleanness, whether it was during intercourse or a nocturnal emission (Leviticus 15:16-18 Deuteronomy 23:10). If a man slept with her during her menstruation, he would also be unclean for seven days, and any bed he laid on would also be unclean (Leviticus 15:24). Menstruation caused uncleanness for seven days, and whoever touched the woman’s bed was unclean until evening (Leviticus 15:19-23). In both cases, her purification ceremony involved a burnt offering and a sin offering (Leviticus 12:1-8). For a girl baby, the mother was unclean for two weeks, and purified 66 days later. For a boy baby, the mother was unclean for a week, and cleansed or purified 33 days later. For example, normal sexual intercourse rendered both men and women unclean (Leviticus 15:18). Sin was involved in the cases above, but in the vast majority of cases uncleanness did not come from sin. Witchcraft and child sacrifice would also defile a person (Leviticus 18:21 19:31 20:2-3). A woman who remarried was defiled for her first husband (Deuteronomy 24:4). Adultery was called impurity or defilement (Numbers 5:12-30). A person who committed sexual sins was defiled (Leviticus 18:20-23). When Shechem had sex with Dinah, she became defiled. The Hebrew word for “unclean” ( tame’) may also be translated “defiled,” and this is how the NIV translates it in Genesis 34:5, 13, 27. In these passages, the distinction between cleanness and uncleanness was made for religious purposes, relating to the Levitical and sacrificial system of ancient Israel. However, unclean people could eat meat that was not part of a sacrifice (Deuteronomy 12:15, 21-22 15:21-22). If an unclean person ate the meat, that person was to be expelled (verses 20-21). Only clean people could eat meat of the fellowship offering (verses 19-21). If something unclean touched meat of the fellowship offering, that meat would have to be incinerated (Leviticus 7:19). They could eat the offerings only when they were clean (Leviticus 22:4-7 Numbers 18:11-13). If priests performed an offering when they were unclean, they were to be expelled (Leviticus 22:3). The priests were to eat sacrificial meat in a clean place (Leviticus 10:14). ![]() Ashes of the burnt offering had to be put in a clean place (Leviticus 6:11). Portions of a sin offering had to be incinerated outside the camp in a clean place (Leviticus 4:12). Later, Levites were purified with “the water of cleansing” (Numbers 8:6, 15, 21). We are not told how they purified themselves, but it seems to have been related to worship. Jacob told his household to get rid of their idols and to “purify” themselves and change their clothes (Genesis 35:2). The tabernacle furniture and utensils had to be made with pure gold. The word for “clean” ( tahôr) may also be translated “pure,” as we see in numerous places in Exodus. To gain a context for the concept of clean and unclean foods, we will discuss other sorts of uncleanness first. People who were unclean were not allowed to participate in religious ceremonies.ĭo these laws apply to Christians? Let’s examine the evidence in the five books of Moses and the New Testament. ![]() These laws were not concerned with hygiene, but ceremonial status. Old Testament Laws: Are Some Meats Unclean?Īmong the regulations God gave the ancient Israelites were various laws about cleanness and uncleanness. ![]()
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