Leviticus 13:47–59
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 go looking for a more palatable Psalm. We have laws about skin diseases, and now we have laws about moldy clothes. It is very easy for our sophisticated sensibilities to dismiss this as part of an ancient, primitive purity code that has nothing whatever to say to us, apart from perhaps a general lesson on the wisdom of using Clorox. But to do this is to profoundly misunderstand the God we worship and the book He has written. He is the God of skin and bone, of stone and timber, and as we see here, of wool and linen. The Creator of the warp and the woof is intensely interested in the integrity of the warp and the woof.