Leviticus 19.18, “You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.” Of course it is the second half of this verse that Jesus uses to speak of the greatest commandment. Jesus puts together ...
Leviticus 19:18Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD. Treasury of Scripture The young man said to him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? All. Mark 10:20 And he answered ...
InLeviticus 25:47-49, we’re told that redemption is part of God’s plan for society. If an Israelite becomes poor and must sell themselves to a foreigner, they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them, or if they prosper, ...
In the plural, the word may also mean the span of life (Psa_102:3 [4]) Psalms 102:3 LEB for my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are charred like a hearth. or a year (Lev_25:29; 1Sa_27:7). Leviticus 25:29 LEB “‘ And if a man sells a residential house in a walled...
Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexuality” as we now understand it – as the caring, loving and sexual relationship between people of the same sex. These texts are about relationships that cross boundaries of purity (between clean and unclean) and ethnicity (...
Leviticus 17:10-13, 14 (NLT) “And if any native Israelite or foreigner living among you eats or drinks blood in any form, I will turn against that person and cut him off from the community of your people, for the life of the body is in its blood. I have given you the blood on...
[12] And yet, Deuteronomy 23:19 shares one intriguing feature with the two Priestly verses in Leviticus: toʿevah vocabulary. Verse 19 ends by declaring the wages and fees of both the zonah and the kelev to be abominations to God.[13] But what does the term toʿevah mean in ...
Leviticus Q+R This summer we've been releasing a Q+R series we did on Youtube covering hard questions in the Old Testament. This week we are in the book of Leviticus, a very confusing, very ancient book. Tim and Jon discuss issues about being "unclean" in the Old Testament, whether ...
The Old Testament used a form of the word to forbid mating cattle of different species (Leviticus 19:19). The Law also forbids harnessing together an ox and a donkey to plow a field (Deuteronomy 22:10). The point of this phrase will soon become clear. Those in Christ are something ...
Another type of marriage that God has no part of is a homosexual marriage. For “you shall not lie with a male as with a woman. IT IS AN ABOMINATION” (Leviticus 18:22). “Therefore, God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among...