Leviticus 19:19-28 – “‘Keep my decrees. “‘Do not mate
different kinds of animals. “‘Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. “‘Do
not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material. “‘If a man sleeps with a
female slave who is promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her
freedom, there must be due punishment. Yet they are not to be put to death,
because she had not been freed. The man, however,
must bring a ram to the entrance to the tent of meeting for a guilt offering to
the Lord. With the ram of the
guilt offering the priest is to make atonement for him before the Lord for the sin he has committed, and his sin
will be forgiven. “‘When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit
tree, regard its fruit as forbidden. For three years you are to consider it
forbidden; it must not be eaten. In the fourth year
all its fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord. But in the fifth year
you may eat its fruit. In this way your harvest will be increased. I am the Lord your God. “‘Do not eat any meat
with the blood still in it. “‘Do not practice divination or seek omens. “‘Do not cut the hair at
the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard. “‘Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo
marks on yourselves. I am the Lord.
Genesis
30:27 – But Laban said to him, “If I
have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by
divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”
Leviticus 17:11 – For the life of
a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make
atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for
one’s life.
Application:
- · Divination was strictly forbidden to Israel because it reflected a pagan concept of the world controlled by evil forces, and therefore obviously not under the sovereign rule of the Lord.
- · The blood shed in the sacrifices was sacred. It epitomized the life of the sacrificial victim. Since life was sacred, blood had to be treated with respect. Eating blood was therefore strictly forbidden.
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
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