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.
π 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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