My apologies for skipping a day. This is a double entry, but it’s all the same.

For the most part, these four chapters are all descriptions of how and when to bring food to the Lord for offerings. But they will be eaten by the priests. Nothing new here.

Lev 24:10-16 is a pretty gruesome interlude. Two men are fighting, and one curses the Name. He is brought before Moses so that he could get a ruling from the Lord. The ruling is that the man is to be stoned to death. Any Israelite, or goyim living with them, who blasphemes is to be put to death.

That reminds the Lord to spell out some more punishments. He said, “eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.” He never was the forgiving type.

In Lev 25, we begin to understand the entire Israel-Palestinine conflict. Every fifty years is the Jubilee, where you are supposed to return land you bought to its original owners. After 4000 years, who are the original owners?

When it comes to slaves, feel free to keep the foreigners forever, but Israeli slaves must be able to buy their own freedom.

I am the Lord your God.

Tomorrow: Leviticus 26-27