Leviticus 11–15: On Why You Can Step on Bugs and Eat Rock Badger Nuggets—And Still Go to Church (Bible Talk, Ep. 38)

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🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In Leviticus, uncleanness results from death. That’s the big idea of Leviticus 11–15 and its discussion of chewing the cud, leprosy, and bodily discharges.

Alex Duke chats with Jim Hamilton and Sam Emadi about the next section of Leviticus.

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0:00.0	At any rate, these things all seem to reflect, as I said a moment ago, the results and the presence of death.
0:11.7	And that comes into the world because of sin, but not every instance of the outworkings of death can be directly tied in a one-for-one way to a particular sin that
0:23.0	somebody committed, but nevertheless, because death results from sin, it is regarded as unclean.
0:34.8	Welcome to episode 38 of Bible Talk, a podcast brought to you by Nine Marks. Nine Marks
0:39.8	exists to help pastors build healthy churches. For more, you can visit Nine Marks.org. My name is
0:45.3	Alex Duke, and with me are my two friends, Sam Amati and Jim Hamilton. So last week, we talked about
0:50.0	Aaron and his sons getting their priest's license. And we talked about how the deaths of
0:55.0	Nadab and Abihu, we talked about the deaths of Nadab and Abihu for offering unauthorized fire. And
1:00.4	because this is a 9 Marks podcast, we talked about what all of this has to do with church
1:04.3	membership and discipline. So that was Leviticus 8 through 10. And today we have Leviticus 11 through 15. And boys, it's a dozy.
1:13.5	It is a doozy because we get to talk about chewing the cud and animals with cloven feet and
1:19.7	frosted flaky skin, leprosy, I think, right? And bodily... I'm never going to be able to eat
1:25.8	frosted flakes again. I'm glad you caught the cereal pun. Thank you.
1:28.7	And last but not least, bodily discharges.
1:31.7	But before we get into these details, any high-level comments on the sort of organization of these 11, 12, 13, 14, 5 chapters of Leviticus?
1:40.7	Either of you, any comments for us about how we can understand these in the sort of flow of the book?
1:45.4	I don't have literary structure, but I would make a comment about what I think is the rationale.
1:51.0	Hopefully I'm not getting ahead of you.
1:52.4	No, that's fine. I mean, that was my next question, but same thing.
1:54.5	Yeah, so I think that the rationale behind all of this is that uncleanness results from death. And the regulations about like the flaking
2:03.3	skin or the bodily discharges, these are informed by what happens when something that's
2:09.1	part of your living body is no longer part of your living body. So the skin that's flaking off you,
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