Psalia.Law & beginnings / About this book
Offerings, purity, festivals and everyday conduct all belong to Israel’s life before a holy God. Read the instructions as a connected pattern of worship and communal responsibility, paying attention to the care required for neighbors, strangers and the land.
EDITORIAL REFLECTION · NOT SCRIPTURE
These books bring together narrative, covenant, and instruction. Notice when the writing moves from telling an event to giving a command, and ask who is being addressed. A law within a particular covenant setting deserves more attention than an isolated sentence can give it.
When you read a story, trace the people and the consequences of their choices. When you read instruction, look for the relationships and responsibilities it shapes. Let the book’s different forms help you decide what kind of question to ask.
Use the outline to see the larger movement before settling into a chapter. Each section opens at its first chapter in the reader.
1The LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
2“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When anyone of you offers an offering to the LORD, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock.
3“‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before the LORD.
4He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
5He shall kill the bull before the LORD. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
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Where does worship lead beyond the sanctuary into responsibility for other people?
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