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 to piano and swim lessons. Those things are good,

but your kid's 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 12 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 and laws set out in this book is to get the

people from the state of being unclean to the state of being clean or even holy. There are various ways this has to be approached. First, we'll look at a lot of offerings. While we're in these more challenging parts about sacrifices and offerings, I want to point you to a short article that explains these five major offerings in brief, the burn offering, the grain offering, the peace offering, the sin offering,

and the guilt offering. We'll link to that article in our show notes today. We open with Moses

speaking with God at the tent of meeting, a phrase that now represents the tabernacle. It's very

confusing that they use these same terms to refer to different things, but just know that once the

tabernacle exists, that's what

the phrase tent of meeting refers to. Everything we read today was God talking to Moses at the

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