Leviticus 11:24–28
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a portion of Leviticus that causes many modern Christians to quietly close their Bibles and move on to the Psalms. We are confronted with laws about carcasses, about touching dead things, about washing clothes, and about being unclean until evening. It all seems very strange, very arbitrary, and very distant from our concerns about mortgages, school districts, and the latest political firestorm. Why in the world would God dedicate so much inspired ink to the proper handling of dead animals? The answer is that God was teaching His people a fundamental lesson about reality. Just as a child must learn the alphabet before he can read Shakespeare, so Israel had to learn the basic, tangible distinctions between clean and unclean before they could grasp the profound difference between holiness and sin, life and death.