Leviticus 7 to 10: The calm before the storm

Leviticus 7

More rules about trespass and sin offerings and who gets the leftovers...

Verse 6 "Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy."

So there were female priests? But they weren't in the protein-grubbing gang...

Burn, sprinkle blood, tabernacles. Yawn.

Verse 26 "Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings."

Leviticus 8

God gives Moses some get-up instructions for Aaron. Gotta keep up appearances.

Verse 6-7 "And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. And he put upon him the coat and girded him, with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplaste the Urim and the Thummim."

And they kill a bullock. Annoint, purity, yadder yadder yadder.

Verse 31 "And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons. Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregationL and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it."

Leviticus 9

And Aaron sacrfices a bullock, goat and lamb, which the LORD torches

Verse 24 "And thre came a fire out form before th LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat which when all the people saw, they shouted and fell on their faces."

Leviticus 10

Aaron's kids get torched by the LORD, and Moses consoles Aaron by saying 'that's how it goes, mate.'

Verse 1-3 "And Nadab and Abihu, he sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer and put fire therein and put incense thereon, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is tit that the LORD spake, saying I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace."

And the LORD gives some complicated rules for Moses' cronies to follow, which they muddle, and Moses chews out Aaron's kids. Aaron takes up their cause and Moses so 'oh, that's alright then'.

Ah, next chapter gets going with the strange rules Leviticus is known for...