Personal Consecration Unclean

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Personal ConsecrationUnclean

• Unclean in Leviticus means not in a condition to
  go to the sanctuary.

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Separateness Rules

• Separateness by Not Mixing Things
• Lev 1919 cattle breeds, seed hybrids, fabric
  blends
• Deut 225, 10 male/female clothes ox/donkey
  plowing
• Separateness by Grooming Hygiene
• Lev 1927 Grow out forelocks and beard
• Deut 2212 Num 1538 Wear tassels on garment
  corners
• Deut 2312-14 Practice discrete bathroom habits
• Separateness by Exclusions from The Assembly
• Deut 231-2 Castrationforever children of
  forbidden unions10 years
• Deut 233-8 Ammonites/Moabites10 years
  Edomites/Egyptians3 years
• Compare priestly restrictions in Lev 2117-23

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Practices That Reinforce Consecration

• You shall be holy, for I the Lord our God am
  holy.
• Private events that remind everyone of holiness
• Childbirth Lev 122-6
• Exclusion from sanctuary 33(boy) or 66(girl) days
• Burnt offering and sin offering at tabernacle
• Infections and Discharges
• Leprosy Lev 132-4 146-12, 54-57
• Bird ritual outside camp
• Thorough shaving and washing
• Semi-exclusion 7 days
• Sin and burnt offerings and more ceremony at
  tabernacle
• General discharges.

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• Private events that remind everyone of holiness
• Discharges in general Lev 152, 13-15
• Bathe and wash anything you contaminate
• After 7 days, sin/burnt offerings (birds)
• Discharge of semen Lev 1516-18
• Bathe and wash soiled garments
• Exclude self from sanctuary until evening
• Same for woman in contact with his seminal
  emission
• Menstrual flow Lev 1519-30
• Exclude self from sanctuary for 7 days
• Also exclude till p.m. those who touch what she
  touches
• Also exclude for 7 days a man who lies with her
• Bathe and bring sin/burnt offerings (birds) to
  tabernacle.

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Diet Restrictions

• Fish Lev 1112
• Only with fins and scales
• Fowl Lev 1113-19
• None of these (mostly those that feed on
  carrion) Eagle, vulture, buzzard, falcon, raven,
  ostrich, owl, sea gull, hawk, pelican, stork,
  heron, bat
• Insects Lev 1120-23
• Only flying four-footedinsects with knees
  locusts, grasshoppers
• Paws (none) Lev 1127
• Creepy-crawlies Lev 1129-30
• None that crawl on belly or all fours, or many
  feet mole, mouse, gecko, crocodile, lizard,
  chameleon

• Fat Blood Lev 722-27
• No fat from ox, sheep, goat
• No fat from animal that died or was torn by
  beasts
• No fat from offerings
• No Blood
• Meat Lev 112-12
• Only from split-hoofed cud-chewing animals no
  camels, rabbits, or pigs
• No goat in mother's milkEx 3426 Deut 1421

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FORBIDDEN RELIGION

• Idolatry
• Death penalty for Child sacrifice to Molech,
  Molten gods, Asherah poles, Heavenly Hosts, Lev
  1821 194, 202 Deut 1231, 1621-22 172-5
  1810
• Wipe out Canaanite idolatry. Deut 122-3
• Death penalty for enticing to idolatry Deut
  132-10
• Do not mention names of other gods Ex 2313
• The Occult
• Banish users of mediums and such Lev 208 Deut
  1810-12
• Execute sorceress/medium/spiritist Ex 2218 Lev
  2027
• Blasphemy
• False oath in the Lord's Name Lev 1912
• Death penalty for cursing/blaspheming God. Lev
  2415-16