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Annual Reading Schedule - Torah Given Through Mosheh - Week 24 - And You Shall Be Set-Apart (Leviticus 7:37-11:47)

Reading Questions

  1. Is smoking prohibited in the Scriptures?
  2. Should alcohol be drunk by someone before they engage in teaching others?
  3. What does the blood not being brought in have to do with eating the offering as mentioned by Mosheh (Moses) in Leviticus 10:18? What is Mosheh trying to say?
  4. Can we touch dead flies, cats, dogs, rabbits, catfish, or dead pigs?
  5. Can we eat crickets and grasshoppers?
  6. Can wood be cleansed?
  7. Can clay/pottery/earthen vessels be cleansed?
  8. If any unclean animal touches your oven or cooking range, the place where you cook, is that usable any longer?
  9. Can we become unclean by a cow?
  10. Leviticus 11:20 says to not eat a flying insect on all fours. Deuteronomy 14:19 is more broad and says that every creeping insect that flies is unclean for you and not to be eaten. We also learn in Leviticus 11:32 that whatever unclean carcasses fall on becomes unclean. One might want to then consider the making of honey and how it is quite probable from what I've heard from an experienced bee keeper that it is impossible to keep a dead bee from ending up in the honey. How then could any bee honey be clean?

Reading Notes

  • The phrase "Set-Apart" is a way of translating the Hebrew word "Qodesh" קֹּדֶשׁ (Strong’s # H6944). The Hebrew word "Qodesh" is defined in the Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible as "Set apart: Someone or something that has been separated from the rest for a special purpose." The King James translates this word in a variety of ways, including: "holy, sanctuary, hallowed, holiness, dedicated, consecrated".
  • The command to not touch unclean carcasses is why we should be looking for kosher certifications on not only food products, but soap and other products that provide certification where possible (even foil, plastic Tupperware, etc. sometimes can contain Kosher certifications if we look for it).
  • Obviously there is a lot more to walking in a Set-Apart manner than just what we eat and these commandments to only eat clean and avoid unclean also may represent spiritually and/or be a parable for how we spiritually must only take in what is clean and avoid unclean spiritual things as well. These notes are not comprehensive on what it means to be Set-Apart or to walk in Set-Apartness but just covering some basics from this reading. May Yahweh help us all to be pleasing in His eyes and to walk in Set-Apartness (1 Thessalonians 4:3-8)!

Related Verses

Body Is Temple: 1 Corinthians 6:19 and 2 Corinthians 6:16
No Abomination In House: Deuteronomy 7:26, 23:18
Avoid Uncleanness: Isaiah 52:11, 66:16-17, 2 Corinthians 6:17, Galatians 5:19-20, Ephesians 5:3, 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8, Revelation 21:27
Unclean Demons Into Unclean Animals: Matthew 8:32, Mark 5:13, Luke 8:33
Other Unclean Animals: Revelation 16:13, 18:2
Animal Dies of Itself: Deuteronomy 14:21
Eat Locusts: Matthew 3:4, Mark 1:6