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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...

with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.… And I will dwell among the people of Israel, and will be their God.” After the covenant was broken by the manufacture of the golden calf Moses pleaded with God to renew his covenant: “If thy presence will not go with me, do not carry us up from here” (Exod. 33:15). All human efforts are in vain without divine aid. The same point is made several times in Lev. 26. If the Israelites disobey the law, God will walk contrary to them (vv.
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