You gotta love the pictures you can find on Google images. 6.
Aaron's priestly handbook. It's pretty long and extensive. Kinda like the 'agenda' I use, except mine has a lot less about burning the offerings.
7.
Back in those days, the breast meat was considered inferior. God got the fat; the priests got the white meat. Made for healthier priests, though, probably.
8.
Ordinations were more exciting back then. Now we have cake and punch.
9.
God liked their offerings. Consuming fire and His presence: had to be pretty cool. Good reaction, too: shout for joy and fall on your face.
10.
Nadab and Abihu: Exhibit A in taking your role as priests seriously. Pay attention, or God will consume you with fire. Ouch.
Hmm...priests couldn't drink back then. No comment.
11.
Fish, good. Lobster, bad. Cows, delicious. Pigs, nope. Predatory birds, bad. Other birds, good. Locusts, crickets and grasshoppers, good. Other wingy things, detestable (no kidding!). Don't eat your cats and dogs (pawed). Don't eat skinks (don't know what that is, but it sounds too close to skunks, so I'm okay with that).
These food things are fascinating to me. It stinks for our members who are at the Jewish retirement home and have to smuggle bacon and cheeseburgers in.
I'm glad Christians can eat bacon and seafood, and especially seafood wrapped in bacon. I'm hungry now.
p.s.- The point of all this is the "be holy, because God is holy."
12.
Circumcision. The things we do to our babies. Beats trying to convince a 10-year-old, though.
13.
Hmm, priests got to play doctor, too. Dealing with rashes = not in my job description.
'Unclean' people have to live alone. Some things don't change.
14.
You notice that in some ways there is a lot more connection made between physical and spiritual disease. Maybe in some ways this is valid, maybe in some ways not. However, we try to separate these things altogether. What do you think of this?
15.
Good thing there are a lot of doves and pigeons in this world, because it would have taken a lot of them just for all the sacrifices.
Not exactly a profound statement, but be happy I'm trudging through this stuff.
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