Leviticus 5-7

Well back to the reason we are here, my Bible reading for the day.

We have:
12 burnt entrails
11 rams without blemish
10 shekels of silver
9 sprinkles of blood
8 sin offerings
7 pieces of unleavened bread
6 young pigeons
5 golden calfs (oh...wait that was earlier, we've gotten rid of those)
4 parts of an ephah of fine flour
3 cereal offerings
2 TURTLEDOVES (ok so this ENTIRE joke was just so I could use that!)
1 sweet and satisfying odor

Then we get more blood and and more sin forgiveness....nothing really new in today's reading.

Since I don't have anything really to discuss, let me just share my favorite part of today's reading (being a vegetarian, I especially love it)

ready........go

And he shall offer all its fat, the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, and the two kidneys and the fat thats on them at the loins, and the lobe or appendages of the liver, which he shall take away with the kidneys

I pretty much threw up a little after reading that part, who knew the liver had a lobe anyway....blahhh

Leviticus 1-4

With this reading we get all sorts of ways to atone for one's sins.

You are given several options and I'm not sure but I think ones no better or worse than the other.

You have your burnt offering, which involves A LOT of blood, blood smearing, sprinkling...etc

Then you have your cereal offering, which I like MUCH better. You can offer it raw, you can bake it, fry in a pan, it can be covered with oil... this seems like a way better choice for me. With the added benefit that Aaron and his sons get left-overs.

The smell of the cereal is JUST as sweet and satisfying to the Lord, so I say let the animals live.

Basically that's it for this first reading from Leviticus.

What I want to point out is the fact that we can look at these offerings and they seem archaic and strange. So what sets these crazy traditions apart from the ones we still hold on to. Are we picking and choosing?

We choose the 10 commandments, we choose the explanations for what we do when someone does__blank__ to us.

We do not choose burnt offerings for sin atonement, we do not choose to be still on the Sabbath (for the most part), we use baking powder liberally at all times....so who's to say what we hold onto and what we let go of?

...but I'm going to venture a guess its got a little something to do with Jesus (read with the Spanish pronunciation, please).

Exodus 30-43

Moses

by Frida Kahlo

1945

This is actually several day's readings.

We first find Mo getting instructions for a census. Everybody is to give a little in order that they have no plague fall upon them.

Now heres the part I know my dear friend simply loves, the rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less. No comment.

Then we get a bunch of directions, the big one seems to be "DO NOT WORK ON THE SABBATH!!!!!"

Things are just getting crazier and crazier. Moses is spending more time on the Mt. chatting it up with the Big Guy, getting pages and pages of instructions.

While he's doing this he's left in brother in charge down below to near disastrous consequences. He goes and does all sorts of stuff that he's not suppose to do, including making a GOLD CALF for the people to have as a god?!?

WHATEVER, I was even like COME ON! You can't be serious Aaron.

So I don't know what that was about, but neither God nor Moses was pleased. ......and so people had to be killed.

The good guys come forward and and Moses goes up to the Lord and sorta asks that he take the blame for them. God says no, that they must take the blame and he sends a plague.

Why doesn't Aaron get into trouble though?

Then God decides to show himself (sorta) to Moses, which is crazy to me. I just don't think of God as looking like anything.

Moses spends 40 days and 40 nights (always with the 40 days and 40 nights?) and he came down with the 10 commandments and super shiny skin (like Edward, for you Twilight people). It freaked everybody out so Moses wore a veil on his face after he talked to God.

We get through the building of the tabernacle and the tent and all the details about Aaron and his bathing.

God gives the instructions for all the feasts that and such that should be kept and the sacrifices that should be made.

That basically takes us out of Exodus.

Exodus 25-29

Again with today's reading, the specifics simply slayed me. The movie rolling in my mind of Moses trying to keep up with those directions had me rolling with laughter.


My "Believer on Retainer" told me I didn't really have to read all of those specifics about the building of the ark. I have to admit though, I was intrigued by the specific directions.

It does tend to lend to the authenticity of the Bible. Like, why would anyone leave that in after all of these years if it weren't important. I just keep thinking that through its many writes and rewrites, someone would have said

"can't we just leave all this useless drivel out, no one reads it anyway"

And because its still here, well to me that sort of says something; what is says I'm not quite sure.



I wish a had a video of myself reading about the blood and the mutilation of the bull, it would probably be quite funny.

The details, are confusing, again to me. I mean what is all the "fat that covers the entrails, and the appendage that is on the liver...." about?! and the blood! They are dabbing blood, pouring blood, sprinkling blood, pretty much everything but drinking blood.

The only sense I can make out of any of it, is like, its a big test. An obstacle course, to prove your love for the Lord?

I know I'm not suppose to be trying to figure it all out. Sometimes however, thats hard for me to turn off. At times I can be a bit like a 4yr old. I want to know why? Why this? Why that? Why?

I must say that I do like that the smell if the bull's entrails burning is a smell that is sweet and satisfying to the Lord.

I enjoy that visual.