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Leviticus used to be the first book that Jewish children studied in the synagogue. In the modern church it tends to be the last part of the Bible that anyone looks at seriously. Because Leviticus is largely concerned with subjects that seem incomprehensible and irrelevant today—rituals for sacrifice and regulations concerning uncleanness—it appears to have nothing to say to twenty-first-century...

lifetime. Man’s sinful nature requires that he repeatedly seek divine forgiveness and that he renew his dedication to God and his covenant vows. The cereal offering also served a practical purpose—of providing the priests with their staple foodstuffs. The priests and the Levites had no land of their own and were entirely dependent on the people’s good will. The Levites relied on the tithes, but the priests relied on the sacrificial offerings, and particularly on the cereal offering, as it was the
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