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After Egypt, the Isaraelites camp at Mt. Sinai for a year. They receive the Ten Commandments, build the tent worship center,a nd receive around 600 laws that govern their actions – many of which are in this book Sacrificial Lamp (4:27-35) – God creates a complicated system of animal sacrifice, and it helps serve as a dramatic object lesson and visual aid for the people. First it gives the people a way of expressing their sorrow for sing and being assured of the forgiveness of God. And then, with the animal's death, it reminds the people about the seriousness that sin conveys. Sin causes spiritual death. The ritual involves the worshiper to lay a hand on the head of the animal. God said, “Life is in the blood, I have given you the blood of animals” to sacrifice in place of your own” (17:11). Thoughts on Food – The rules of Food are that the Jews can eat animals that chew the cud and have a split hoof (i.e cattle), fish that have fins and scales, and certain insects (locusts, crickets and grasshoppers are all examples). The Jews can't eat pigs, camels, shellfish, lizards, and many birds. God doesn't explain why, but some researchers believe that God was preventing the Jews from health problems like Idolatry, since some of those animals that were banned were used in Pagan rituals – esp. the pig. People who ate nonkosher food became unclean and had to follow certain cleansing rituals before they could worship God. Holy Days – Yom Kippur (the day of Atonement), became the holiest day of the year to the Jews. On that day, the high priest offers sacrifices for the sins of the whole nation. He first sacrifices a bull for the sins of his family. Then he sacrifices a goat for the nation. He then lays his hands on the head of a second goat, called at “Scapegoat” and confesses the sins of Israel. The scapegoat is led into the desert andc released to die “so that it can take away their sins.” In the New Testament, the images of a scapegoat becomes relative to Jesus “who died to take away the sins of many (Hebrews 9:28).
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After Egypt, the Isaraelites camp at Mt. Sinai for a year. They receive the Ten Commandments, build the tent worship center,a nd receive around 600 laws that govern their actions – many of which are in this book Sacrificial Lamp (4:27-35) – God creates a complicated system of animal sacrifice, and it helps serve as a dramatic object lesson and visual aid for the people. First it gives the people a way of expressing their sorrow for sing and being assured of the forgiveness of God. And then, with the animal's death, it reminds the people about the seriousness that sin conveys. Sin causes spiritual death. The ritual involves the worshiper to lay a hand on the head of the animal. God said, “Life is in the blood, I have given you the blood of animals” to sacrifice in place of your own” (17:11). Thoughts on Food – The rules of Food are that the Jews can eat animals that chew the cud and have a split hoof (i.e cattle), fish that have fins and scales, and certain insects (locusts, crickets and grasshoppers are all examples). The Jews can't eat pigs, camels, shellfish, lizards, and many birds. God doesn't explain why, but some researchers believe that God was preventing the Jews from health problems like Idolatry, since some of those animals that were banned were used in Pagan rituals – esp. the pig. People who ate nonkosher food became unclean and had to follow certain cleansing rituals before they could worship God. Holy Days – Yom Kippur (the day of Atonement), became the holiest day of the year to the Jews. On that day, the high priest offers sacrifices for the sins of the whole nation. He first sacrifices a bull for the sins of his family. Then he sacrifices a goat for the nation. He then lays his hands on the head of a second goat, called at “Scapegoat” and confesses the sins of Israel. The scapegoat is led into the desert andc released to die “so that it can take away their sins.” In the New Testament, the images of a scapegoat becomes relative to Jesus “who died to take away the sins of many (Hebrews 9:28).
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