This is the Bible Book Club where each episode we dive deep into the only book book written 2,000 years ago that can still change your life today. Welcome to the Club. Hey, if you've been enjoying the Bible Book Club and listening to these Leviticus episodes drop each week,

you may enjoy also binging the Bible Book Club.

And if you didn't start with us in Genesis, you can go back.

And you can binge Genesis and Exodus, and then you'll be caught up on Leviticus so that can kind of

fill in your week if you're looking for something later in the week besides the Mondays that drop

for Leviticus. Anyway, last episode in chapter 19, we got into the laws for moral purity,

were also called holy living. These included everything from honoring your parents to

don't cheat or lie or steal. Some of them were pretty much like, duh, and other ones were a little

more interesting. But the bottom line was, love your neighbor as yourself, the golden rule,

because God's premise for these laws was just love.

And then we also got into chapter 20, which was painful, and it covered all the penalties that occur when you break a command.

The consequences were tough, and many required death by various different methods.

And so just be encouraged now because now that we're through 19 and 20, you're almost done with

Loviticus. I know, we are closing in. Chapter 1920 in the last episode completed our circuit

of all the purity laws. Remember, we did purity and then we did atonement and then we came back

to purity. So we're done with purity. In this episode, we're going to move down our outline and once again delve back

into the priesthood, which we covered on our way to purity in the beginning. And I want to say

that I've experienced the word purity in a different way since studying this. Even being aware

while we're singing songs in church on Sunday, whenever they say something about pure, I'm like, I'm experiencing this different now because I understand really what it means to be pure.

Well, it's mentioned, you know, being clean or unclean, which is the purity theory there, is mentioned a lot in the New Testament.

And I'm the same way. It didn't resonate to me like it is now. When I hear it in the New Testament,

I go, oh, well, the Jews would have really known what that meant, whereas it just doesn't,

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