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Day 31 - Purity and the Day of Atonement

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https://www.thoughtco.com/day-of-atonement-700180 My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 1/31/2019     Day 31    Leviticus 15:1 - 18:30 Reflection: Chapter 15 deals with purity and various discharges. Chapter 16 deals with the day of Atonement how the priest is placing all of the sins on a goat and then sacrificed. Chapters 17 & 18 deals with slaughtering of animals, do not eat blood, sexual relations prohibitions. Purity in all things and not defilement before God. More information.   Meditation/Contemplate: ... on this day atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse you; Prayer: You have made a wondrous creation that we may delight. Give us the vision and life to live in your light. Amen The Next Seven Days of Readings 1/29/2019     Day 29   Leviticus 8:1 - 10:20 1/30/2019    ...

Day 30 - Good and Bad Food - Clean and Unclean

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Eurasian hoopoe - Wikipedia On the Unclean Food List My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 1/30/2019     Day 30   Leviticus 11:1 - 14:57 Reflection: It is interesting what the Eternal in this section considers clean and unclean or what you can eat or not- Yes - animals with divided hoofs, cleft footed, and chews a cud; Fish with scales & fins, locust, crickets, grasshopper, No - camel, rock badger, pig, sea creatures that do not have scales or fins, birds - eagle, vulture, ostrich, nighthawk, sea gull, any hawk, owls, Stork, heron, hoopee, bat, all other insects that are winged that have four legs, mice, weasels, geckos, lizards, chameleon, swarming creatures. Women after childbirth are unclean; skin eruptions; surface afflictions, leprosy point to being unclean and excluded from the community. More information.   Meditation/Contemplate:...

Day 29 - Ordination and the Priestly Order

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https://www.lds.org/media-library/images/moses-gives-aaron-priesthood-39465?lang=eng My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 1/29/2019     Day 29    Leviticus 8:1 - 10:20 Reflection: Chapters 8 - 10 narrate the consecration of the tabernacle complex, the seven day ordination of Aaron and his sons, the inaugural priestly service on the eighth day that culminates in the presence of God through fire, and the subsequent illicit ritual of Aaron’s sons - Nadab and Abihu - they are burnt on the spot for doing something unholy in the presence of holy. More information.   Meditation/Contemplate: Being set apart for holy service. Prayer: Set me apart to do your will, O Eternal One. Amen. The Next Seven Days of Readings 1/30/2019     Day 30   Leviticus 11:1 - 14:57 1/31/2019     Day 31 ...

Day 28 - More instructions

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https://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/christian-trends/4-attributes-of-god-to-be-thankful-for-this-thanksgiving.html My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 1/28/2019     Day 28 Leviticus 5:1 - 7:38 Reflection: More sacrificial instructions; offerings for various sins and infractions; Note the need to be pure from unclean things; chapter 7:11-38 outline Instructions for well-being offerings for thanksgiving, votive, and freewill.   More information.   Meditation/Contemplate: “... Any of you making an offering of well-being, you must bring it yourself.” Prayer: Come to be, my God, that I might be forgiven and grow in faith. Amen The Next Seven Days of Readings 1/29/2019     Day 29   Leviticus 8:1 - 10:20 1/30/2019     Day 30   Leviticus 11:1 - 14:57 1/31/2019   ...

Day 27 - Worship regulations

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Rehoboth Welsh Choir singing at the Saint David's Day celebration at the Welsh Congregation of New York City Wiki Commons Images My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 1/27/2019     Day 27    Leviticus 1:1 - 4:49 Reflection: Background on Leviticus from a Jewish perspective. Leviticus gives the laws and regulations for worship there, including instructions on ceremonial cleanness, moral laws, holy days, the sabbath year and the Year of Jubilee. These laws were given, at least for the most part, during the year that Israel camped at Mount Sinai, when God directed Moses in organizing Israel's worship, government and military forces. The Five Main Offerings (chs. 1 - 7 ) The Burnt Offering ( ch. 1 ) The Grain Offering (ch. 2) The Fellowship Offering ( ch. 3 ) The Sin Offering ( 4:1 ; 5:13 )          Source Lev...