I have finally made it out of just trying to summarize Leviticus 13 on this blog! I'm just trying to make sense out of it verse by verse, and it seems so hard to try to do this consistently. I have so much going on my mind. This reminds me, I need to read the my daily portion of the Bible. I'm almost done with the New Testament. I don't know what's going on in the Bible, but a few verses do stick to me so I hope it gets better as I continuously read the Bible. "It will," says everybody!
Verse 1 of Leviticus 14 says that God talked to Moses. The end of that verse. Verse 2 mentions a law made specifically for lepers (oh, the humanity). I really am not accustomed to using that word. I'm sensitive about saying bad words around people too. I just don't do it and incited a few people (a girl and a boy) to dare me to say a cuss word. It's always like that- a male and a female do something to me and it's just one of each gender. The restraining order is the same too- one from a male stupid person and a female crybaby.
Okay verse 2 finishes with the law of the leper pertaining to being cleansed. On the day of his cleansing, he is brought to the priest. Verse 3 states that the priest goes out of the camp and examines him to confirm healing took place. / (I will be using this to add side notes to avoid any confusion. It looks like lepers are cast out of camp and have to live by themselves. I think this was verified from the last chapter. What a sad and lonely life!) Verses 4-5 state that on confirmation of the person being healed, the priest commands two living and clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop to be obtained. / (They all must have some symbolic representation.) Verse 5 says that one of the bird gets killed in an earthen vessel over running water. / (Wow, that's seems a little gruesome like not messing around here with this ritual.) Verse 6 states the other bird gets dipped in the blood of the bird that was killed over running water along with the cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. / (It looks like to me that some symbolic form of redemption is taking place.) After that, verse 7 states the same blood gets sprinkled seven times who is to be cleansed and then is pronounced clean and the living bird becomes lucky and sent off into the wild. / (Imagine the birds being used were the pope's doves. In one iconic scene of the media, the pope sent off doves to go freely into the wild probably from secretly being annoyed of them but they didn't want to fly away. It's nothing like home sweet home! All of this description of a ritual took up one paragraph which took five minutes to write up and could be even faster if the priest rushes it. The number seven also means God! God is represented in the Bible with the number seven which means perfection. Man is represented with 6 for imperfection. The anti-christ is given the number 666. The New Testament states that only three things remain: faith, hope, and love. Man is imperfect in those qualities.)
Verse 8 states that in addition, the person who is to be cleansed of leprosy takes a bath, does laundry, and shaves off every hair all around the body. /(Imagine being hairy or seeing hair in the weirdest places of the body, especially for the girls!) After that, he stays outside the camp for another seven days. / (God gets to have His way here, I guess.) Verse 9 on the seventh day after that, the person now becomes fully hairless including the eyebrows and does laundry again. After that he's clean. / (Shaving the hair is probably just keeping away the contaminant germs, or that's what I'm presupposing with no medical knowledge of leprosy.) Verse 10 states on the eighth day, the cured person takes two male lambs without blemish, a ewe lamb without blemish, three-tenths of whatever an ephah means (4.8 gallons) of grain offering mixed oil, and a log of oil. / (Yummy!)
Verse 11 states the priest who made the person clean presents the person at the door of tabernacle of meeting to the Lord. Verse 12 states the priest uses a male lamb and offers it as trespass offering and does a wave offering with the log of oil before the Lord. / (It looks like the trespass offering and wave offering is some form of cleansing ritual that takes place before God allows a person to be cleansed.) Verse 13 states the priest kills the lamb in the place where sin offering and burnt offering is done in a holy place. One of the lambs is used to offer a sin offering and trespass offering for the priest! / (So yeah, God doesn't look at priests as being so holy and divine. He knows they sin too.) It is the most holy. Verse 14 states the priest takes some of the blood from the trespass offering and puts it on the right ear of the person to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
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