Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Leviticus is a book about a perfect holy God who wants to draw near to his people who

are, unfortunately, completely depraved and sinful.

It walks us through the very messy and detailed process of how that can be possible.

There are a lot of components involved, so set your mind to press through on the days

when it's not easy.

You'll be grateful you did, just like you tell your kids when you take them with piano

and swim lessons.

Those things are good, but your kids ability to see that it's good just hasn't developed

yet.

So put on your swim cap.

Here we go.

First things first, who are the Levites?

They're the descendants of Levi, one of the twelve tribes of Israel slash sons of

Jacob, and just yesterday we saw that God appointed this particular tribe or line to

be the priests in the Tabernacle.

So we'll be dealing with a lot of things pertaining to priests.

They are the mediators between the holy God and the sinful people.

God is going to show them what steps are necessary to make this relationship functional.

There are three primary ways of being that are laid out in this book, unclean, clean,

and holy.

In general, the people are unclean, always God is holy, and the purpose of these rituals

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