July 23, 2018 - Day 106 - Leviticus 16

I am writing from my hotel room in Portland, OR.

Leviticus 16:

The wild ride through Leviticus continues.

Aaron is warned that he must not get to close to God or he will die.  God will appear in a cloud.

If Aaron wants to enter the "Most Holy Place," there are a series of instructions.  This includes bringing a bull (sin) and a ram (burnt), as well as wearing the correct clothing.  It appears he needs to sacrifice some goats as well.  One of the goats will be sent into the wilderness, though.

The bull and goat offerings are rather pedestrian.  You know the drill, slaughter it and then do the finger blood thing.

All of this somehow means what you did wrong is fine now that you killed your animals.

I understand that an animal was a prized possession, but it kinda sucks for the animal that its owner was doing things he or she shouldn't.  Oh well.

What if you had to sacrifice your dog or cat whenever you did something wrong?  Exactly.

Once Aaron does all this dumb stuff, he puts his hands on the live goat and transfers all the bad shit to the goat head.  Then the goat runs into the woods and everybody lives happily ever after.

Then Aaron has to wash his clothes and then do the burn part.

This chapter closes with a recap of sorts.


As I've said a thousand times, why would the creator of the universe care about any of this?

Oh yeah, said creator would not care because this is written by ancient people who didn't know what rain was.

YOU ARE LOVED.  YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO EARN THAT.

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