21. Purification of Skin Infections (Lev 14:1-32)

After being healed, he must keep the seven-day purification period and the atonement ritual on the eighth day.

πŸ‘‰ Read Leviticus 14:1-32

When a man is healed, he should bring two live clean (           ), a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of (            ) to the priest. This is for the cleansing ritual.

For the atonement ritual, the man healed should prepare two male lambs for a (           ) offering and a burnt offering, a female lamb for a (          ) offering, a grain offering of wheat flour, and (             ) for the cleansing ritual.

The priest presents one male lamb and olive oil as a (          ) offering. The priest then offers it as a guilt offering. He put the blood on the right (          ), (           ), and (             ). He sprinkles (            ) before the Lord and puts it on the person being cleansed. And then he put the remaining oil on (            ) of the person. Then the priest performs (        ) offering and (           ) offering.

Answers and Meditation

This is how the man healed could return to his normal life.

· Announcement of cleanness: by sprinkling blood and water outside the camp.

·  Seven days of purification in the camp but outside of  his tent

·  Atonement ritual at the Tabernacle: guilt offering, sin offering, and burnt offering.

Such a complicated procedure reminds us that I am holy people of God.


Birds, hyssop

One bird from the two will be slaughtered upon a bowl of fresh water and have the blood dropped in the water. The priest sprinkled the blood and the water even times on the man and pronounced him clean. And then he sent another bird away.

They take two birds. One was killed, and one was released. This is similar to the two goats of the Atonement Day.

 

Guilt, sin, olive oil

 

Wave, earlobe, thumb, big toe, the olive oil, the head, sin, burnt

The primary purpose of the “guilt offering” was to “atone” for “trespassing” on the Lord’s “holy things,” whether sacred objects or sacred people. 

Here, the skin-diseased person had been expelled from the community and desecrated. Thus, the guilt offering was essential to restoring him or her to the community. In fact, the manipulation of blood and oil in the guilt offering procedure is similar to the ordination offering procedure for priests.

Wave offering makes the male lamb given to the priest (and the man healed) so that he would slaughter it for the ritual.

God provides a way for the person who is poor. The Bible specifically notes that (verses 21, 32).

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