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April 17, 2019

Mosaic Law #14

OUTLINE OF LEVITICUSChapters 1-7 Laws of Five Primary SacrificesChapters 8-10 Initiating PriesthoodChapters 11-15 Distinguishing Clean & UncleanChapters 16 Day of AtonementChapters 17-26 “You shall be holy for I am holy”

24 Sexual Sins in Leviticus

6 Sexual Sins in Deuteronomy

Entire List of 30 Sex Sins in Only 2 Books

Only 6 Actually Stated in N.T.

First 24 in Leviticus 18

Sexual Sins ?

Sexual Sin ?

At least 24( Probably all 29 )

of 59 Abominationsare Sexual in Nature.

All 24 are SEXUAL

1 Corinthians 6:18Flee immorality.Every other sin

that a man commitsis outside the body,

but the immoral mansins against his own body.

Let’s finish sexual sins first:Leviticus 19:20-22Leviticus 20:10-21

Leviticus 19:2You shall be holy

for I, the Lord your God,am holy.

Leviticus 20:26Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples

to be Mine.

1 Peter 1:14-16Do not be conformed

to the former lustswhich were yoursin your ignorance,

but like the Holy Onewho called you,

be holy yourselves alsoin all your behavior; because it is written,"YOU SHALL BE HOLY,

FOR I AM HOLY."

“Most of ancient Near Easterners believed all things were born into being. This was a major tenet of theirbelief system. They believed that not only animals were born, but also plants. This is the reason that they'sowed their field with two kind of seed,' i.e., male and female as they thought of it.” (Thomas Constable)

Leviticus 19:19

“ The mixture of wool and linen was used in the tabernacle and in the high priest’s outer garments, and itwas thus reserved for sacred use. This interpretation is also current in the Dead Sea Scrolls (4 QMMT).Sowing of two types of seed is also prohibited in the *Hittite laws, with a death threat to violators.(John Walton, Victor Matthews and Mark Chavalas)

“All the symbolical, mystical, moral, and utilitarian reasons that have been supposed to lie at thefoundation of these commands, are foreign to the spirit of the law. And with regard to the observance ofthem, the statement of Josephus and the Rabbins, that the dress of the priests, as well as the tapestriesand curtains of the tabernacle, consisted of wool and linen, is founded upon the assumption, which cannotbe established, that (the Hebrew word) is a term applied to linen. Keil and Delitzschll rights reserved.)

“This precept, like the other two, was in all probability designed to root out some superstition; andaccordingly, Maimonides informs us that he found it enjoined in old magical books that the idolatrouspriests should clothe themselves in garments of linen and woolen mixed together, for the purpose ofperforming their ceremonies. A secret virtue was attributed to this mixture. The law, it is to be observed,did not prohibit the Israelites wearing many different kinds of cloths together, but only the two specified;(Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown)