Twenty of the twenty-seven chapters in Leviticus and thirty-five of the paragraphs start with Adonai spoke to Moshe [Moses]. Ninety-nine percent of the book is the Lord speaking, not Moses going into the tent of meeting and coming out and saying, “Thus says the Lord.” In Leviticus, God is speaking. That’s how potent this book is. If we think this is just an ancient Jewish sacrificial rules and regulations manual to maintain holiness in everyday life, then we miss the point of the book. God wants Christians to be holy too. Both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, God says, be holy,
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