with life in God’s Presence through increasing holiness, the overall goal being fellowship and union with God.28 Once more, the aim of Levitical legislation must be kept in view. Whether the laws pertain to sacrifice, to distinguishing between clean and unclean, or to ethical and moral behaviour, the aim of the laws is fellowship and union with the living God. For this reason, though Leviticus is often characterized thematically by holiness,29 it is preferable to discern holiness not as an end in
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