Leviticus – General
Leviticus 1:3, 10 - Only unblemished males are to be killed and offered to God. Females don't even make good burnt offerings.
Leviticus 1-9 - God gives detailed instructions for performing ritualistic animal sacrifices. Such bloody rituals must be important to God, judging from the number of times that he repeats their instructions. Indeed the entire first nine chapters of Leviticus can be summarized as follows: Get an animal, kill it, sprinkle the blood around, cut the dead animal into pieces, and burn it for a "sweet savour unto the Lord."
Leviticus 4:20, 26, 31, 35 - In Leviticus we are repeatedly told that sins are forgiven by offering bloody sacrifices to God. But in Hebrews 10:4, 11 this is explicitly denied.
Leviticus 4:2, 13, 22, 27 - "If a soul shall sin through ignorance...." But how can someone "sin through ignorance?" Don't your have to at least know that an act is wrong before it can be sinful?
Leviticus 5:2-3 - If you touch any unclean thing (like a dead cow or a bug) or the "uncleanness of man" (?), then you'll be both unclean and guilty.
Leviticus 5:8-9 - Wringing off the heads of pigeons for God.
Leviticus 5:15, 17 - According to these verses it's possible to sin without even knowing that you've done something wrong.
Leviticus 7:1-6 - The holy law of trespass offering: Find an animal; kill it; sprinkle the blood around; offer God the fat, rump, kidneys, and caul; burn and eat it in the holy place, for "it is most holy."
Leviticus 7:18-27 - Be careful what you eat during these animal sacrifices. Don't eat fat or blood, these are for God. (And he doesn't like to share!)
Leviticus 9:8-21 - More killing, sprinkling of blood, waiving animal parts, and burning carcasses "before the Lord."
Leviticus 10:1-3 - Two of the sons of Aaron "offered strange fire before the Lord" and "there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.... And Aaron held his peace." So Aaron just watched as his sons were burnt to death by God.
Leviticus 10:6-9 - If priests misbehave at the tabernacle by uncovering their heads, tearing their clothes, leaving with holy oil on them, or by drinking "wine or strong drink", then God will kill them and send his wrath on "all the people."
Leviticus 11:5-6 - The bible says that hares and coneys are unclean because they "chew the cud" but do not part the hoof. But hares and coneys are not ruminants and they do not "chew the cud"!
Leviticus 11:10-12 - Clams, oysters, crabs, lobsters, and shrimp are abominations to God. Then why did he create them?
Leviticus 11:13, 19 - Bats are birds to the biblical God. No clue…
Leviticus 11:23 - Be sure to watch out for those "other flying creeping things which have four feet." (I wish God wouldn't get so technical!) I guess he must mean four-legged insects. You'd think that since God made the insects, and so many of them (at least several million species), that he would know how many legs they have! Not four!
Leviticus 12:1-8 - Women are dirty and sinful after childbirth, so God prescribes rituals for their purification. If a boy is born, the mother is unclean for 7 days and must be purified for 33 days; but if a girl is born, the mother is unclean for 14 days and be purified for 66 days. This is because, in the eyes of God, girls are twice as dirty as boys.
Leviticus 14:2-52 - God's treatment for leprosy: Get two birds. Kill one. Dip the live bird in the blood of the dead one. Sprinkle the blood on the leper seven times, and then let the blood-soaked bird fly off. Next find a lamb and kill it. Wipe some of its blood on the patient's right ear, thumb, and big toe. Sprinkle seven times with oil and wipe some of the oil on his right ear, thumb and big toe. Repeat. Finally find another pair of birds. Kill one and dip the live bird in the dead bird's blood. Wipe some blood on the patient's right ear, thumb, and big toe. Sprinkle the house with blood 7 times. That's all there is to it! Why do we even battle with doctors and medicine these day’s?
Leviticus 15:2-15 - Long, tiresome, and disgusting instructions regarding the treatment of men who have a "running issue" out of their "flesh." Very enlightening! "And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean ..."
Leviticus 15:16-18, 32 - This passage tells you what to do if you get your "seed of copulation" on yourself, your clothes, or your partner. Thank God this is in the Bible.
Leviticus 15:19-30, 33 - God lays down the law on menstruating women. Such women are to God both filthy and sinful, and anyone who comes near them is contaminated by them.
Leviticus 18:21,23 - Don't let your "seed" pass through the fire or "lie with any beast." You probably weren't planning on doing these things, but now you know just in case you get the urge sometime.
Leviticus 19:18 - "Love thy neighbour as thyself." This is by far the best verse in Leviticus, and one of the best in the entire bible. It seems out of place here, however, since in the next chapter God orders us to kill wizards (20:6), children who are disrespectful toward their parents (20:9), adulterers (20:10), and homosexuals (20:13). And throughout the Old Testament, God encourages the Israelites to kill their neighbours every chance they get. (See Numbers 31 and 1 Samuel 15 for just two of many examples).
Leviticus 19:19 - "Thou shall not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shall not sow thy field with a mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee." I'm glad God told me about this, I was just about to do some of these awful things.
Leviticus 19:20-22 - If a man has sex with an engaged slave woman, scourge the woman, but don't punish the man.
Leviticus 19:26-28 - Don't eat anything with blood, observe times, round the corners of your head, mar the corners of your beard, make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, or print any marks on you.
Leviticus 20:9 - "For every one that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death." Couldn't we try spanking first?
Leviticus 20:10 - Both parties in adultery shall be executed.
Leviticus 20:11 - "And the man that lieth with his father's wife ... both of them shall be put to death." Which? The man and his father? The father and his wife? Or the man and his father's wife? Oh heck, just kill all three.
Leviticus 20:12 - If a man "lies" with his daughter-in-law, then both must be killed.
Leviticus 20:13 - According to the Bible, all homosexuals must be executed.
Leviticus 20:14 - If you "lie" with your wife and your mother-in-law, then all three of you must be burned to death. Your poor wife!
Leviticus 20:15-16 - If a man or woman "lie with a beast" both the person and the poor animal are to be killed.
Leviticus 20:18 - If a man has sex with a menstruating woman, they both "shall be cut off from among their people." But Lev.15:24 says that such a man "shall be unclean seven days." I wonder which is the correct punishment?
Leviticus 20:23 - Contrary to popular opinion, the god of the bible does not love everyone.
Leviticus 20:27 - People with "familiar spirits" (witches, fortune tellers, etc.) are to be stoned to death. What is the definition or classification of a witch? Hundreds / thousands of innocent women have been killed in God’s name!
Leviticus 21:7 - Priests can't marry "whores", "profane", or divorced women. Why? Because "he is holy unto his God" and they would defile him. Does he catch a cold also very easily?
Leviticus 21:9 - A priest's daughter who "plays the whore" is to be burned to death. But not others?
Leviticus 21:11 - The high priest shall not "go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother." This must have been quite the popular thing back then…
Leviticus 21:13-14 - A priest can only marry a virgin. No harlots, widows, or divorced women will do. (God really likes virgins.)
Leviticus 21:16-23 - Handicapped people cannot approach the altar of God. They would "profane" it. Although he is the one who created them!
Leviticus 22:11 - "But if the priest buys any soul with his money ..." It must be OK to buy slaves; even priests do it.
Leviticus 23:12-14, 18 - God gives us more instructions on killing and burning animals. I guess the first nine chapters of Leviticus wasn't enough? He says we must do this because he really likes the smell; it is "a sweet savour unto the Lord."
Leviticus 23:14, 21, 31, 41 - God tells Moses that his law shall be "a statute forever." But Rom.7:6 says that God's law is "dead."
Leviticus 23:29-30 - Don't do any work on the Day of Atonement or God will destroy you.
Leviticus 24:10-23 - A man curses and blasphemes while disputing with another man. Moses asks God what to do about it. God says that the whole community must stone him to death. "And the children of Israel did as the Lord and Moses commanded."
Leviticus 24:16 - Anyone who blasphemes or curses shall be stoned to death by the entire community.
Leviticus 24:20 - An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. If we apply this rule then we'll all wind up toothless and blind.
Leviticus 24:20 - "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." Even to the slaves?
Leviticus 25:39 - God's instructions for buying your brother for a slave.
Leviticus 25:44-46 - God tells the Israelites to make slaves out of their neighbours. The "heathens" and "strangers" are to be their possessions forever.
Leviticus 26:7-8 - God tells the Israelites to "chase" their enemies and make them "fall before you by the sword." He figures five of the Israelites will be able to "chase" a hundred of their enemies, and a hundred will be able to "put ten thousand to flight."
Leviticus 26:16-39 - God describes torments that he has planned for those who displease him. The usual stuff: plagues, burning fevers that will consume the eyes, etc. but he reserves the worst for the little children. He says "ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it", "I will send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children", and "ye shall eat the flesh of your sons... daughters."
Leviticus 26:41 - "If then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled ..." How can a heart be "uncircumcised" or “circumcised” for that matter? And if a heart can be “circumcised” then why do you have to cut of the foreskin?
Leviticus 27:3-7 - God estimates the value of human life in Rand’s and cents. Of course, to God, females are worth considerably less than males; but neither is worth much.
