Leviticus 17

Leviticus 17:1-16

Leviticus 17:1-16; Leviticus 18:1-30; Leviticus 19:1-37; Leviticus 20:1-271. Personal Holiness (Leviticus 17-20)(a) The People of God, Being a God-Governed and Theocratic Nation, are to be a Separated People Their lives are to be characterized by otherworldliness. “ After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.” “ Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.” “ (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not anyone of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God” (Leviticus 18:3; Leviticus 18:24-25; Leviticus 18:27-30). The keynote to their conduct shall be “ I the Lord” -a consciousness of the immediate presence of Jehovah-and not the customs of the people around about.