Leviticus is a holiness code for a holy people, marked solely by their identification with a Holy God and loyalty to The One.
Holy means peculiarly set apart, but also points to transferable principles and concepts.
Each section ends with a summary statement of The One's name and character providing the rationale for peculiar and particular expectations on those who bear and wear that name.
The principles are revealed as we meditate on the particulars.
Thus, the holiness code still has great value and propelling power, even for gentile followers of Jesus who see it fulfilled in him.
Leviticus 19:26-37
26 You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying. 27 You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD.
29 Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.
30 You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD.
31 Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
32 You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.
33 And if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him. 34 The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
35 You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume. 36 You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37 Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them: I am the LORD.
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