Monday, 21 March 2011

The One Year Bible - Day 78

I find with these massive list of offerings and festivals and which animals are required etc, it is easy to glaze over and try and skip over it. As a useful exercise however, it would be worth listing each of these and seeing how many of each animal are required for the various offerings. This might help us understand the distinctions between the various offerings and why some require more of a certain type than others. I was challenged by this when someone pointed out that the guidance for purity laws in Numbers is related to the Garden of Eden and to Jesus' ministry, something that would be easy to miss if we assumed the OT laws are just a pain to be endured!

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