- Animals okay to eat:
- land animals with cloven hoof and that chew cud
- sea animals with fins and scales
- some birds are out
- insects with four legs and jointed legs are okay
- If you touch unclean things you have to wash your clothes and are unclean until sunset.
- Any kitchen item touched has to be3 destroyed, even a stove or oven!
- This is tied to your holiness.
How this is about Jesus
- Jesus repeals this code for us in Mark 7
- The purpose was to illustrate the distinction between holy and defiled, which principle continues today
- Jesus revamps this in the sermon on the mount in Matthew 5:48
- The point of the food laws was NOT nutritional, but ethical: distinguish between clean and unclean. See verses 44-47.
Chapter 12
After birth, a boy is to be circumcised on the 8th day. The mother is unclean for 40 days, then brings a sin and burnt offering to the temple. If it's a girl she's unclean for 80 days. The reason for the impurity is probably the loss of blood during birth - emissions of fluid generally made you unclean. No reason is given for the double time for the girl, but it would go against Genesis 1:27 to say a daughter is less wanted or more impure inherently than a son.
How this is about Jesus
- Joseph and Mary fulfill this, and meet Simeon and Anna in the temple.
- This passage is a reminder of the curse and promise in Genesis 3. Birth would involve pain, now that we sinned, but through birth would come a redeemer to cleanse away all impurity (1 Timothy 2:15).
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