Questions and Answers - Leviticus 15 - 27

Q. We know that molds were a basic problem. What other physical maladies were a problem back then?	A. Leviticus 15:1-2 = A man could get a genital discharge that was also contagious.
Q. What were the steps to stay clean of these problems?	A. Leviticus 15:5 = Don't touch an infected man's bedding, where he sat or the defiled man or his blanket on which he rode, or carry something that was under him; if he touched you without first washing his hands, or if he touched a clay pot or utensil, it or you required bathing, washing clothes and you and the pot were defiled until evening.
Q. After the defiled man was healed, what were the instructions for making him officially clean?	A. Leviticus 15:13 = You'd count off 7 days, wash your clothes and bathe in fresh springwater. On the 8th day, you'd make a sacrifice to the Lord for your atonement.
Q. What things were used in the atonement?	A. Leviticus 15:14 = 2 young turtledoves or pigeons - 1 for a sin offering and 1 for a whole burnt offering.
Q. Was there uncleanliness after a couple bed together under any circumstance?	A.Leviticus 15:16 = Yes. Both man and woman were defiled until evening. They'd wash their clothes and bathe too.
Q. And during a woman's menstrual period?	A. Leviticus 15:19 = She was unclean for 7 days or until her bleeding stopped. Then 7 more days had to pass after bleeding stopped for her to be clean again.
Q. Was there a sacrifice to be made each menstrual cycle?	A. Leviticus 15:29 = Yes. 2 turtledoves or young pigeons, one for the sin offering and one for the whole burnt offering. This covered the atonement required.
Q. What reason did God give for those cleanliness and purificaion ceremonies and clothes and bathing rituals?	A. Leviticus 15:31 = In this way, the priests kept the people of Israel separate from things that would defile them, so that they would not die as a result of defiling the Tabernacle that was right there amongst them, where God dwelled.
Q. Could Aaron and the other priests (his sons) enter the Most Holy Place any time they felt like it?	A. Leviticus 16:2 = No! They would get the death penalty.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 16:2 = The Ark's cover - the place of atonement - was there and God was present in the cloud over it. [Their bodies couldn't stand His presence.]
Q. How did the priests prepare to enter the Most Holy Place?	A. Leviticus 16:3 = They would do the following: 1). Bring a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a whole burnt offering 2). The priest would bath his whole body and put on his linen tunic and undergarments worn next to his body, tie a sash around his waist, and put the linen turban on his head. (These were his sacred garments.) 3). The people of Israel would bring him 2 male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a whole burnt offering 4). Aaron would present the bull as the sin offering to make atonement for himself and his family 5). He then brought the 2 male goats and presented them to the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle 6). He would cast sacred lots to determine which goat would be sacrificed to the Lord and which one would be the scapegoat 7). The scapegoat was presented to the Lord alive. When it was sent away into the wilderness, it made atonement for the people. 8). He would then present the young bull for the sin offering for himself and his family (of priests too) to make atonement 9). Slaughter the bull 10). Fill an incense burner with burning coals from the altar that stood before the Lord 11). Fill both hands with incense 12). Carry the burner and incense behind the inner curtain 13). There, in the Lord's presence, he'd put the incense in the burning coals so that a cloud of incense would rise over the Ark's cover -- the place of atonement -- that rested on the Ark of the Covenant. 14). Only then, would he not die in the Most Holy Place 15). He'd dip his finger into the blood of the bull and sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover and then 7 times against the front of the Ark. 16). Then he slaughtered the goat as a sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the inner curtain, sprinkle the blood on the atonement cover, then 7 times against the front of the Ark.
Q. Why was this necessary?	A. Leviticus 16:16 = He made atonement for the Most Holy Place, and did the same for the entire Tabernacle because of the defiling sin and rebellion of the Israelites (which never stopped because of the curse of Adam).
Q. Could Aaron, as high priest, have help in this ritual?	A. Leviticus 16:17 = No. He had to be alone until it was over.
Q. Was the ritual done now?	A. Leviticus 16:18 = No. After that 1). Aaron still had to make atonement for the altar that stood before the Lord by smearing some of the blood from the bull and goat on each of the altar's horns 2). Dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it 7 times over the altar.
Q. What did this do?	A. Leviticus 16:19 = 1). Cleansed it from Israel's defilement and 2). Returned the altar to its former holiness.
Q. So there were 3 areas that had to be made clean (made atonement for) in order that a priest could go into the Most Holy Place?	A. Leviticus 16:20 = Yes. To review, cleansing was done in this order: 1). The Most Holy Place 2). The Tabernacle 3). The altar.
Q. Then what?	A. Leviticus 16:20 = 1). Aaron brought a living goat forward 2). He laid both hands on the goat's head and confessed over it all the sins and rebellion of the Israelites.
Q. Why was this done?	A. Leviticus 16:21 = The sins of the people were then on the head of the goat, which would be sent out into the wilderness, led by a man chosen for this task. He would set the goat free and the goat carried all the people's sins upon itself into a desolate land, hence, the scapegoat.
Q. What did Aaron do with the sacred garments he was wearing?	A. Leviticus 16:23 = 1). He'd enter the Tabernacle, take them off and leave them there 2). Bathe his entire body with water in a sacred place, put on his garments 3). Go out to sacrifice his own whole burnt offering and the whole burnt offering for the people.
Q. For what?	A. Leviticus 16:24 = He made atonement for himself and the people.
Q. Where was the fat?	A. Leviticus 16:25 = Burnt on the altar completely.
Q. What happened to the man sent out with the goat?	A. Leviticus 16:26 = He had to wash his clothes and bathe in water, then return to camp.
Q. What happened to the bull and goat given as sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement for Israel?	A. Leviticus 16:27 = They were carried outside the camp to be burned. Even the dung was burnt. The man who did the burning had to wash his clothes and bathe himself in water before returning to the camp.
Q. Was it now done?	A. Leviticus 16:28 = Yes! (Whew...)
Q. What other time was this atonement ceremony in the Most Holy Place, the Tabernacle and the altar performed?	A. Leviticus 16:29 = In late September or early October, there was one day of the year, a Sabbath day, set aside.
Q. Did it have a name?	A. Leviticus 16:29 = Yes. It was called the Annual Day of Atonement.
Q. We know how the atonement sacrifices were made. What else happened on that day?	A. Leviticus 16:29 = 1).Fasting 2). Resting (no work) It applied to all foreigners living amongst them. Note: TGod has never been exclusive to the Israelites. Foreigners converted and lived amongst the Israelites since Abraham's day.
Q. What was unique about this day?	A. Leviticus 16:29 = It was a general cleansing day, covering all Israelites as a tribe; they were to fast and remember God, especially on that day.
Q. Why would the Israelites even want to sacrifice animals out in the fields?	A. Leviticus 17:7 = They might be tempted to sacrifice to an idol other than God -- an evil spirit.
Q. Were they doing that before now?	A. Leviticus 17:7 = Yes.
Q.What did God call that?	A. Leviticus 17:7 = Being unfaithful to the Lord.
Q. Could anyone alter any of God's commands about how to perform sacrifices?	A. Leviticus 17:8-9 = Not in any way. They were completely cutt off from the community if they did.
Q. Why were they forbidden to drink blood?	A. Leviticus 17:11 = The life of any creature is in its blood and God had given that blood to them so that they could make atonement for their sins. The blood represented life and that brought atonement for sins.
Q. What were instructions for hunting and killing an animal or bird fit for consumption?	A. Leviticus 17:13 = They had to drain the blood and bury it in the earth.
Q. What if the animal died a natural death or was killed by a wild animal?	A. Leviticus 17:15 = They could eat it, but they would remain unclean till evening. Also, they had to wash their clothes and bathe. Note: At communion, we drink wine that represents Jesus' blood (life), given for us on the cross.
Q. Are people the "product of their environment?"	A. Leviticus 18:1-5 = No. People are the product of their choices.
Q. Does God put temptation in our paths?	A. Leviticus 18:3 = Yes. He led the people straight to Canaan, which was an evil place and they had come from Egypt, another place gone bad.
Q. What did God expect of the Israelites?	A. Leviticus 18:4 = To be loyal to Him, no matter what and no matter the magnitude of the sin all around them.
Q. Was there good reason to do this to them?	A. Leviticus 18:5 = Yes. Obedience to the laws and regulations kept them healthy and fulfilled.
Q. Abraham married his half-sister. At what point in time did that kind of half-sister-to-wife arrangement become physically unhealthy?	A. Leviticus 18 = During Moses' time.
Q. There are lists of "bed" sins, child sacrifice, man/man, woman/woman, bestiality sins that God warned Israel not to commit. Who was committing these sins?	A. Leviticus 18:24-25 = The present occupants of Canaan, the promised land.
Q. Does God ever punish a nation for its sins?	A. Leviticus 18:25 = Yes. He said that because of the Canaanites (Ham's descendants) sins, the land would vomit them out.
Q. God showed no mercy towards the Canaanites. Did God show partiality to the Israelites?	A. Leviticus 18:26 = No. Remember, Israel had foreigners living amongst them, even in the exodus from Egypt.
Q. How did God implore Israel to stay pure?	A. Leviticus 18:28 = He told them not to give the land a reason to vomit them out for defiling it.
Q. What if an Israelite committed any of those sins?	A. Leviticus 18:29 = He was cut off. Note: Tolerating sin made it impossible for God to be amongst His people. They had just been given a lesson in purity. God is saying "be holy, so I can be with you!"(19:1).
Q. When was gleaning first mentioned?	A. Leviticus 19:9 = They were not to harvest grain along the edges of their fields so that the poor could eat.
Q. How were the deaf and blind to be treated?	A. Leviticus 19:15 = The same as the poor. Note: "Holy" appears more often in the book of Leviticus than in any other book of the bible.
Q. More than just the noted Ten Commandments, Leviticus 19 gives another list of behaviors to avoid. Most of those are familiar. Are there any that are extensions of those commands?	A. Leviticus 19:13 = Yes. 1). Pay hired workers promptly 2). Respect the blind and deaf 3). Treat the rich and poor as equals 4). Don't gossip 5). Your ambition should never cause the death of a neighbor 6). No nursing of hatred in your heart toward any relative 7). Confront sinning neighbors or else be guilty for their crimes 8). Don't take your own revenge 9). Don't hold a grudge 10). Love your neighbor as yourself.
Q. What about cross-breeding animal species?	A. Leviticus 19:19 = Not allowed. Not even seeds in a field could be mixed. Not even 2 fabrics woven together was allowed.
Q. What insured trees that bore fruit would be prolific?	A. Leviticus 19:23 = They followed harvest rules for trees: 1). Upon entering the promised land, they would plant the tree 2). Leave it unharvested for 3 years 3). Devote the entire crop to God in the 4th year 4). Eat the fruit in the 5th year. Note: God is sovreign over the trees! He increases their fruit according to our love for Him!
Q. All these details for proper living was laid out for the Israelites... for what?	A. Leviticus 19 = To lay out exactly what was right and what was wrong. Wrong = defilement and hindered God being near, living in the Tabernacle. Not that HE couldn't come down anyway, but that our various sins in us would kill us -- in His presence. The law revealed the sins so that they could avoid them and enjoy God.
Q. What were other sins?	A. Leviticus 19:26 = 1). Don't eat meat not drained of its blood 2). Don't practice fortune-telling or witchcraft 3). No trimming beards or shaving temples 4). No maiming oneself in mourning 5). No tattoes.
Q. I can understand keeping the body pure, but why couldn't they shave their temples or clip the edges of their beards?	A. Leviticus 21:5 = A command for priests -- no cutting themselves allowed -- a razor or knife could accidentally cut them.
Q. What happened if a man made his daughter a prostitute?	A. Leviticus 19:29 = The land would be filled with promiscuity and detestable wickedness.
Q. How were they to treat the sanctuary?	A. Leviticus 19:30 = With reverence.
Q. Fortune-telling was a show of no fath in God's sovreignty for the future. Witchcraft was a show of no faith in God's wisdom to settle disputes, our lack of relance on God's power and desiring magical things to intervene in our lives. Mediums and psychics played God. All of it represented what one sin?	A. Leviticus 19 = Playing God. Note: As satan did when he was thrown out of heaven; when he told Eve that she could be like God in eating theapple. All of it takes time, emotion, dependence, and truth off the mark, who is Himself God. How much time have you spent away from God? How cn you remember that God is providing, blessing, loving you when you are trying to figure things out apart from Him? The biggest time-waster is this stuff -- you exchange God's time for it!
Q. God made a huge deal out of Israel's being set apart, holy, and being His people. How then were they to see themselves compared to foreigners living amongst them?	A. Leviticus 19:33 = Exactly the same! They were to love them as they loved themselves.
Q. What was a common business sin in those days?	A. Leviticus 19:35 = Dishonest scales.
Q. What was the penalty for child sacrifice?	A. Leviticus 20:1 = Death by stoning.
Q. What offenses were committed besides murder in offering their own children as sacrifices?	A. Leviticus 20:3 = 1). Defiling the sanctuary 2). Profaning God's name 3). Prostitution (by worshiping Molech (20:5).
Q. What if the people decided to ignore the sin of their fellow Israelites and foreigners living amongst them in not executing the guilty parents?	A. Leviticus 20:5 = God would cut them off from the community, along with all the rest of the Molech worshipers.
Q. What was the penalty for consulting with mediums or psychics?	A. Leviticus 20:6 = God cut them off from the community.
Q. How could temptation be avoided?	A. Leviticus 20:7 = If they set themselves apart to be holy, they'd be making a choice to do it. God had explained how.
Q. How?	A. Leviticus 20:8 = Keep all the laws and obey them.
Q. How did that make one holy?	A. Leviticus 20:8 = When they did their part, God made them holy.
Q. What was the penalty for cursing father or mother?	A. Leviticus 20:9 = Death. It was a capital offense!
Q. What was the penalty for adultery between married people?	A.Leviticus 20:10 = Death.
Q. What was the penalty for relations between a man and his father's wife?	A. Leviticus 20"11 = Death. It was also a capital offense.
Q. What was the penalty for a man having relations with his daughter-in-law?	A. Leviticus 20:12 = Death. It was again, a capital offense AND they would have acted contrary to nature.
Q. What was the penalty for man/man, woman/woman "bed" acts?	A. Leviticus 20:13 = Death. Capital offense AND a God considered it a detestable act.
Q. What was the penalty for a man having relations with both a woman and her mother?	A. Leviticus 20:14 = All three were burnt to death.
Q. Why so dramatic a death?	A. Leviticus 20:14 = To wipe out such wickedness from amongst them.
Q. What was the penalty for man/animal relations?	A. Leviticus 20:15 = Death to the man and beast.
Q. Did the same apply to women and beasts?	A. Deviticus 16 = Yes. But it also mentions thaty they are guilty of a capital offense.
Q. What was the penalty for sex between a man and his sister (of either his father or mother)?	A. Leviticus 20:17 = It was a terrible disgrace and they were cut off from the community.
Q. What was the penalty for having relations with a woman who was hemmhoraging?	A. Leviticus 20:18 = You were cut off from the community.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 20:18 = He exposed the source of her flow and she allowed him to do so.
Q. What was the penalty for a man having relations with his aunt?	A. Leviticus 20:19 = He had violated a close relative, which was a capital offense.
Q. What was the penalty if a man had relations with his uncle's wife?	A. Leviticus 20:20 = He violated his uncle -- a capital offense -- they would both die childless.
Q. Did the Canaanites do all these things too?	A. Leviticus 20:23 = Yes.
Q. Did God hate it?	A. Leviticus 20:23 = Yes. He detested what defiled people and what kept them from being able3 to draw near to Him. He called these sins TERRIBLE.
Q. How would the Israelites be rid of the Canaanites?	A. Leviticus 20:23 = God would expel them before their eyes. Note: It is an irony that the cursed Ham descendants would end up settling in the promised land in the first place.
Q. What did all the new laws, the Tabernacle, God's ever presence, sacrifices and offerings, civil laws and circumcision do for Israel's descendants?	A. Leviticus 20:24 = God set them apart from all other people this way. They knew it and so did all the other nations.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 20:26 = To be God's own people.
Q. What else defiled a priest?	A. Leviticus 21:1 = Touching a person who was dead, who was not in his immediate family.
Q. Does God eat?	A. Leviticus 21:6 = Yes. The offerings to the Lord by fire was God's food.
Q. Would could a priest marry?	A. Leviticus 21:7 = Someone who was not divorced or defiled by prostitution.
Q. How was a priest to treat his wife?	A. Leviticus 21:8 = As holy.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 21:8 = Because she offered up food to his God and because God is holy and He made the priest holy too.
Q. What if a priest's daughter became a prostitute?	A. Leviticus 21:9 = She defiled her father's holiness as well as her own holiness and was burnt to death. Note: When our children sin, we feel it at home and are driven to pray them out of it. Thank God there is no death penalty anymore! Thankyou Jesus. Your blood means somuchmore than we can imagine!
Q. What result did discipline bring about?	A. Leviticus 20 = All through this chapter, discipline cleaned out the community and made it possible for God to live amongst them. Without it, God was separated permanently. Note: It was always about God staying in touch with us. Only He could make it happen by careful instructions and this way of life instilled in His people. God wants us!
Q. What added rules was the high priest to follow?	A. Leviticus 21:10 = 1). He wore the special priestly garments 2). He could not ever let his hair hang loose 3). He could not tear his clothing 4). He could not leave the sanctuary, even to attend a funeral.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 21:12 = 1). He would be descecrating the sanctuary of His God 2). He had been made holy by the anointing oil of His God.
Q. What other added rules were the high priest to follow?	A. Leviticus 21:15 = He had to marry a virgin (no widow, divorced or prosititute) from his own clan.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 21:15 = That he would not dishonor his descendants among the members of his clan, because God is the Lord and He had made him holy.
Q. What if someone was born with a physical defect of any kind in Aaron's lineage?	A. Leviticus 21:16-23 = 1). He could never offer food sacrifices 2). he could never enter the inner curtain or come near the altar 3).He could eat food offered to God, including the holy offerings and the most holy offerings.
Q. What happened if he did go near those holy places?	A. Leviticus 21:23 = He would desecrate them. Note: This is such a sign of Jesus, the sacrifice, once for all. No spot or blemish could the lambs have.
Q. Now that the laws were made plain, God exhorted Aaron and his sons to treat what with great care?	A. Leviticus 22:2 = The sacred gifts that the Israelites set apart for God, so that they didn't profane God's holy name.
Q. What would happen?	A. Leviticus 22:3 = They would be cut off from God's presence. Note: The priests had a role toplay, but all of Israel was in an equal but different role that would even play a part in a priest getting cut off from God's presence. There is an equality here -- demand of strict obedience of all of the people.
Q. What if a priest got an open sore, or touched a corpse, or had relations, or touched a creeping creature that was unclean or touched a person that was unclean in any way?	A. Leviticus 22:4 = 1). He would be unclean till evening 2). He could not eat any of the ceremonial food until evening, and after he had purified his body with water.
Q. What rules also applied only to priests?	A. Leviticus 22:8 = They couldn't eat animals that died a natural death or that were torn apart by wild animals.
Q. Wow! What would be the penalty for disobedience to these priestly rules?	A. Leviticus 22:9 = Death.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 22:9 = Because God is the One who made the priest holy.
Q. Who in a priest's household could eat the sacred offerings?	A. Leviticus 22:10 = 1). His family 2). Hired servants, if he bought them with his own money 3). Slaves' children 4). A widowed daughter who moved back home.
Q. Who could not eat of the sacred offerings?	A. Leviticus 22:10 = 1). No one outside of a residing priest's family, except for those exceptions just mentioned 2). A perosn living in a priest's home who was not related 3). A hired servant that the priest did not buy with his own money 4). A daughter who married and moved away.
Q. What was thepenalty for accidentally eating of the sacred offering?	A. Leviticus 22:14 = The offender had to pay for the amount eaton, plus an added penalty of 20%.
Q. What happened if unauthorized people ate the sacred offerings?	A. Leviticus 22:15 = They defiled it and the negligent priest would bring guilt upon the people and require them to pay compensation.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 22:15 = Because it is God who made them holy.
Q. We know that all offerings had to be physically perfect. Were there any exceptions?	A. Leviticus 22:23 = A bull or lamb that was deformed or stunted could be offered as a freewill offering, but not offered to fulfill a vow.
Q. When did a bull or ram or male goat become qualified to be an offering?	A. Leviticus 22:26 = From the 8th day of its birth.
Q. What about its mother?	A. Leviticus 22:28 = You couldn't slaughter the mother of the animal to be sacrificed on the same day as her baby.
Q. What was the proper way to eat a sacrificial animal?	A. Leviticus 22:29-30 = All of it had to be eaten on the same day it was offered.
Q. How was God's name to be treated?	A. Leviticus 22:31-33 = As holy; not used commonly and ordinarily by the Israelites.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 22:32 = Because God rescued them from Egypt.
Q. Why did He do that?	A. Leviticus 22:33 = That He might be their very own God.
Q. What were theappointed festivals all about?	A. Leviticus 23:1 = They were days that the Lord summoned all Jacob/Israel to come worship Him.
Q. What were they to do for 6 days a week?	A. Leviticus 23:3 = Work.
Q. And on the 7th day?	A. Leviticus 23:3 = 1). Rest. 2). Assemble for worship.
Q. What was that day called by God?	A. Leviticus 23:3 = The Lord's Sabbath Day.
Q. What if a family moved away?	A. Leviticus 23:3 = They still had to observe it.
Q. What were the other festivals?	A. Leviticus 23:5 = 1). Passover 2). Festival of Unleavened Bread 3). Festival of Firstfruits 4). Festival of Harvest 5). Festival of Trumpets 6). Day of Atonement 7). Festival of Shelters
Q. Are these festivals in sequential order in the list?	A.Leviticus 23:5 = Yes.
Q. What time of the year did they begin?	A. Leviticus 23:5 = Early spring (i.e., late March; early April)
Q. Were there 2 festivals back to back?	A. Leviticus 23:6 = 1). Yes. 1). Passover and 2). The festival of Unleavened bread were Friday at sundown through Saturday at sundown.
Q. What was the Festival of Unleavened Bread about?	A. Leviticus 23:6 = 1). No yeast was used in bread 2). Everyone stopped working for a sacred assembly 3). They presented an offering to the Lord each day by fire for 6 days 4). They stopped work a 2nd time for a sacred assembly.
Q. Explain the Festival of Firstfruits.	A. Leviticus 23:9 = Upon entering the promised land, they planted and harvested a crop. Before eating any of it, they would bring a portion of grain from the harvbest, mixed with 3 quarts of flour and some olive oil, along with a one year old male lamb. Besides this, they offered one quart of wine as a drink offering.
Q. Explain the Festival of Harvest.	A. Leviticus 23:15 = It began counting from the day after Sabbath and on the same day of Festival of Fruits. They count off 7 weeks until the day after the 7th Sabbath (50 days). 1). On tat day, they'd bring an offering of new grain to the Lord 2). Bring 2 loaves of bread for an offering. They were baked with 3 quarts of choice flour with yeast. These were from the first of the later crops. 3). They'd bring 7 one year old lambs (defect-free), one bull, 2 rams, and a drink offering as burnt offerings. 4). one male goat for a sin offering 5). 2 one year old male lambs as a peace offeringl The goat, 2 lambs that were for peace offerings mentioned above belonged to the priests 6). Work halted for a sacred assembly.
Q. Were there any harvesting rules?	A. Leviticus 23:22 = Yes. No harvesting around the edges so that the poor and the foreigner could eat. No picking up what the harvesters dropped.
Q. Explain the Festival of Trumpets.	A. Leviticus 23:23 = 1). A day in early autumn was to be a day of complete rest. 2). A sacred assembly was called by blasts from trumpets. 3). Offerings were given to the Lord by fire.
Q. Explain The Day of Atonement.	A. Leviticus 23:26 = It was celebrated 9 days after the Festival of Trumpets and the evening before the Day of Atonement. 1). In humility, they'd gather for a sacred assembly. 2). They'd present offerings to the Lord by fire. 3). They weren't allowed to work, they fasted and totally rested. 4). This day, payment was made for their sins. (If a person thought he didn't need it, he was cut off from the community. God destroyed anyone who worked that day.) This was also a Sabbath Day. Note: It is good to prepare for a holy day or special occasion by prayer and/or fasting on the day before.
Q. Explain the Festival of Shelters.	A. Leviticus 23:33 = 1). It began the 5th day after the Day of Atonement. 2). It lasted 7 days 3). It began with a sacred assembly -- no work that day. 4). Each festival day, they presented offerings to the Lord by fire. 5). On the 8th day, sacred assembly was called 6). Offerings by fire was done a 2nd time. 7). No work a 2nd time that week.
Q. These festivals went alongside previously mentioned offerings?	A. Leviticus 23:37 = Yes.
Q. What else did the Festival of Shelters require?	A. Leviticus 23:39 = It began after harvest. On day 1, they'd gather citrus fruit and collect palm fronds and other leafy branches and willows that grew by the streams. The Israelites (only) all had to sleep in shelters.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 23:43 = When God rescued them from Egypt, they had to live in shelters -- this was their reminder.
Q. What other reminders happened regularly?	A. 1). Leviticus 24:1-4 = The people provided the priests with pure olive oil for the lampstands placed outside the inner curtain of the Most Holy Place in the Tabernacle -- for the eternal flame. 2). Leviticus 24:5-9 = 12 loaves of bread were laid out in 2 rows. They were needed for the weekly Sabbath. A specific recipe was used (3 quarts of choice flour) and they were laid out on the pure gold table with frankincense sprinkled near each row. It was called a token offering burnt in place of the bread, given to the Lord by fire. 3). The bread was laid out on behalf of Israel as a continual part of the covenant. The loaves belonged to Aaron and his male descendants, who would eat them in a sacred place.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 24:9 = Because they represented a most holy portion of the offerings given to the Lord by fire.
Q. Were there mixed marriages amongst the Jacob/Israelites?	A. Leviticus 24:10 = Yes. Some were married to Egyptians. Shelomith (a woman) was from the tribe of Dan.
Q. What was a problem with mixed marriages?	A. Leviticus 24:10-11 = Different beliefs made for children with unsolid foundations. This young man blasphemed God when in a fight with an Israeli man, and as a result, a new law was made.
Q. How did the Israelites get the new law?	A. Leviticus 24:12 = They put the man in custody and waited on God for an answer. Note: When the way to do something is unclear, wait on God for the answer!
Q. How was the man dealt with?	A. Leviticus 24:13 = They took him outside the camp and all those who heard him blaspheme laid hands on his head. Then all the people stoned him to death. That became the law, applying to Israel and its foreigners living there.
Q. What other laws were made at that time?	A. 1). All injuries were paid back in likeness of injury. 2). If a man killed another man's animal, he'd have to replace it with a live animal. 3). A death for a death.
Q. Did the Sabbath rest apply to creation too?	A. Leviticus 25:1-2 = The land enjoyed the Sabbath rest of one year, the 7th year.
Q. Could they store any stray produce the land might have yielded?	A. Leviticus 25:5 = No. But they could eat it right from the field.
Q. Explain the Year of Jubilee.	A.Leviticus 25:8 = 1). It occured every 50 years (i.e., 7 Sabbaths plus tyhe Day of Atonement the following year. 2). Trumpets blew long and loudly throughout the land 3). Slaves were released 4). Everyone returned to their clans and ancestors' lands 5). It would be a Sabbath year, which meant no work (yes, 2 years in a row were Sabbath years!) 6). Land was bought and sold: the price set was equal to the amount of harvests until the next Year of Jubilee 7). But never sold permanently (God owned it all)(Leviticus 25:23).
Q. How could the Jacob/Israelites secure their livings?	A. Leviticus 25:18 = By keeping God's laws and obeying His regulations.
Q. But they were not allowed to work the 7th year. How did they survive during this long rest?	A. Leviticus 25:20-22 = God would order His blessing for them in the land, so that in the 6th year, there would be enough bumper crop to last 3 years, or to the 9th year.
Q. How were the Israelites to view themselves?	A. Leviticus 25:23 = As foreigners and tenants living with God. Note: That's how we are to see ourselves even today. Nothing has permanancy on earth. We, as Christians, are foreigners and tenants living with Jesus.
Q. Explain Kinsman Redeemer.	A. Leviticus 25:24 = 1). The role came up if a landowner went bankrupt 2). A relative could buy back the land the original owner had to sell to satisfy a debt. The buyer was obligated to sell it to the kinsman redeemer. 3). The original owner could buy it back too. The man he sold it to had to sell it back. Same price standards applied as stated before 4). If the land could not be bought back by the Year of Jubilee, it was returned, free, to the original owner. Note: Sounds like a game of Monopoly!
Q. Did the same rules apply to houses?	A. Leviticus 25:29 = No. Houses had different standards. If your house was inside a walled city and you sold it, you had a year to redeem it. After that time, if you did not redeem it, it bacame the permanent property of the new owner. It would not be given back inthe Year of Jubilee.
Q.What about a house in a village or settlement without fortified walls?	A. Leviticus 25:30 = The earlier regulations for landowners applied to houses in villages and settlements, or any place outside fortified walls.
Q. What priveledges of ownership did the Levites enjoy?	A. Leviticus 25:32 = They could always buy back any house they sold within the cities that belonged to them. The Year of Jubilee gave them back too.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 25:33 = The cities reserved for the Levites were the only property they were allowed to own in all Israel.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 25:34 = It was considered their permanent ancestral property.
Q. How were poor relatives to be treated?	A. Leviticus 25:35 = As family, living in their houses, charging them no interest on any money they borrowed from you.
Q. What if they went bankrupt and sold themselves to a relative?	A. Leviticus 25:39 = They were not to be treated as slaves, but as hired servants or foreigners living with them, and only until the Year of Jubilee.
Q. Then what?	A. Leviticus 25:41 = They were free to return to their clan and ancestral property.
Q. Why could the Israelites never be sold as slaves?	A. Leviticus 25:42 = Because they were God's servants, whom God brought out of Egypt.
Q. How was a servant of a relative treated?	A. Leviticus 25:43 = Well. Their relative masters could never exercise pwer over them in a ruthless way.
Q. Was slavery tolerated by God?	A. Leviticus 25:44 = Yes. They could purchase male and female slaves from among the foreigners who lived amongst them.
Q. What were the rules?	A. Leviticus 25:45 = 1). They could purchase a slave's children 2). Were treated as property 3). Were passed down to their childrren as a permanent inheritance.
Q. What if a foreigner living amongst the Israelites became rich and an Israeli sold himself to him?	A. Leviticus 25:47 = He retained the right of redemption -- by kinsman redeemer (uncle, nephew or anyone else who was a close relative). He could even redeem himself.
Q. What was the price of a slave's freedom?	A. They calculated the number of years remaining until Jubilee, whatever it costed to hire a servant for each year remaining.
Q. What were some rules of conduct between foreign servants and Israeli servants?	A. Leviticus 25:53 = Foreign servants were not allowed to treat Israeli servants ruthlessly.
Q. How does it rain?	A. Leviticus 26:4 = God sends it down.
Q. How is it determined just how long threshing season and grape harvest was?	A. Leviticus 26:5 = God made righteous people to have each season extend to the next.
Q. Who determines who sleeps safely at night?	A. Leviticus 26:6 = God does.
Q. Who protects us from our enemies?	A. Leviticus 26:6 = God does.
Q. Would would be so kind as to remove the wild animals from the land?	A. Leviticus 26:6 = God is.
Q. What ratio of rightous men to enemies did God mention?	A. Leviticus 26 = 5 righteous men to 100 enemies; 100 righteous men to 10,000 enemies.
Q. What was that for?	A. Leviticus 26 = 5 Israelites would kill 100; 100 Israelites would kill 10,000 -- if they were obedient to God.
Q. What else did God want to give Israel?	A. Leviticus 26:9 = 1). More children as promised to Abraham, fulfilling the covenant between them 2). Surplus of crops 3). God desired to live amongst them, walk amongst them and develop the relationship between them. 4). A good memory of just how good their God was to them.
Q. What did God punish?	A. Leviticus 26:14 = 1). Breaking commandments 2). Breaking covenant
Q. How did one break covenant?	A. Leviticus 26:15 = By rejecting God's laws and treating His regulations with contempt.
Q. How did God punish?	A. Leviticus 26:16 = The offender suffered from 1). sudden terrors 2). wasting diseases 3). burning fevers 4). failing eyesight 5). life faded away 6). Other people would reap what you sowed in your field 7). God would turn away so that your enemies would defeat you 8). Enemies would rule you 9). You would run, though not even chased.
Q. What if you didn't repent, even after all this?	A. Leviticus 26:18 = 1). Punishment times seven 2). God would break down your arrogant spirit.
Q. How?	A. Leviticus 26:19 = 1). Draught 2). Hard soil for your crops 3). No matter how hrd you worked the field, nothing would grow.
Q. And if you still disobeyed?	A. Leviticus 26:21 = 7 more disasters 1). God would release wild animals that would kill your children and destroy cattle so that their numbers would be dwindled and the roads would be deserted.
Q. And if you still disobeyed?	A. Leviticus 26:24 = 1). God would be hostile toward you 2). He would strike you 7 times over for your sins.
Q. How?	A. Leviticus 26:25 = 1). God would send armies 2). In fleeing, God would send plague 3). You would be conquered by your enemies 4). Your food supply would be destroyed so that 1 loaf of bread had to feed ten families 5). Food rationing would be instilled by your enemies 6). No food and even much food would satisfy your hunger
Q. And if they still didn't listen?	A. Leviticus 26:27 = 1). The full vent of God's hostilities would be released. Punishment was 7 times for sins: 1). They would eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters 2). God would destroy their pagan shrines 3). He would cut down the incense altars 4). He would leave corpses piled up besides their lifeless idols 5). God would despise them 6). He would make their cities desolate 7). Destroy their places of worship 8). God would take no pleasure in offerings of incense. 9). God would devastate the land 10). Enemies would be shocked by the destruction as they came to occupy the land 11). The people would be scattered 12). God would attack them with his own weapons 13). The land would be desolate 14). Their cities would lay in ruins 15). They would be exiled in the land of their enemies 16). The land would finally have its Sabbath.
Q. And if they survived all this?	A. Leviticus 26:36 = 1). In exile, they would be demoralized in the land of their enemies 2). Live in constant fear and fall, even though not pursued, because they'd be tripping each other in flight 3). They would have no power to stand before their enemies 4). They would die among the foreign nations 5). They'd be devoured in the land of their enemies 6). Survivors would rot away in enemy lands because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.
Q. Was there any hope after that?	A. Leviticus 26:40 = 1). Confession of their sins and that of their ancestors for betraying God and being hostile toward Him 2). They would be humbled 3). They would pay for their sins
Q. How would God respond?	A. Leviticus 26:42 = 1). He would remember Abraham's covenant 2). He would remember the land 3). He would recognize that they had paid for their sins by the above turmoils.
Q. Where were all these laws, regulations and instructions given?	A. To Moses on Mount Sinai.
Q. What other offerings were there?	A. Leviticus 26 = Redeeming gifts -- if a person dedicated anotherperson to the Lord by paying the value of that person.
Q. Was there a scale?	A. Leviticus 27:3 = Yes. 1). Males between 20 and 60 were valued at 50 pieces of silver. 2). Females of the same age were valued at 30 pieces of silver. 3). Boys between ages 5 and 20 wee valued at 20 pieces of silver 4). Girls of the same age were valued at 10 pieces of silver 5). Boys between 1 month and 5 years were valued at 5 pieces of silver 6). Girls of the same age were valued at 3 pieces of silver. 7). Women over 60 were valued at 10 pieces of silver 8). If you couldn't pay it, the priest would set a special price.
Q. Could a house be dedicated to the Lord?	A. Leviticus 27:14 = Yes. The priest assessed its value. Houses and animals could be bought back (redeemed) for the value plus 20 percent.
Q. How was land value assessed?	A. Leviticus 27:25 = By standard sanctuary shekel.
Q. What could they not dedicate to God?	A. Leviticus 27:26 = Firstborn cattle or sheep.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 27:26 = Because they already belonged to God.
Q. What treatment did a dedicated house, land, person or animal receive as part of being specially set apart?	A. Leviticus 27:28 = They could never be sold or redeemed.
Q. Why?	A. Leviticus 27:28 = They were holy.
Q. Could you set apart a person to God who was already set apart for death?	A. Leviticus 27:29 = No.
Q. What was the tithe?	A. Leviticus 27:30 = 1). A tenth (tithe) of the produce of the land 2). Every 10th animal from the herds and flocks. They were set apart as holy.
Q. Where did these commands come from?	A. Leviticus 27:34 = They were given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

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