About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible::

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: I was uncertain of how to accomplish this, mindful of Revelation 22:18-19, which says that nobody is to add to, or to take away from what was written in the Bible. After lots of prayerful contemplation, the Lord had it on my heart that I’m not to change the meaning of what is written in the Bible. He has also shown ways to add to people’s understating of that meaning, without altering the meaning, by putting that info within [brackets]. This is primarily accomplished with the KJV Bible and lots of prayers, but at times, BibleGateway.com, Biblehub.com, NIV Bible, Webster Dictionary, and other internet resources, as needed. Debra Seiling

About Understanding the Bible:

Understanding the Bible: After reading Isaiah 28:10 many times over the years and not totally understanding it, it recently became apparent to me that the Lord God has this passage as the means for understanding the Bible. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10 KJV. Being prayerful about this passage, and looking up 'precept' in the Webster's Dictionary, it gave this passage a whole new meaning, once 'commandment' is substituted for 'precept'. Within brackets are additional words the Lord had on my heart to aid in understanding the meaning. For commandment must be [built up] upon commandment; commandment upon commandment; line upon line, line upon line; [developing understanding] here a little, and there a little.

The Table Format:

The Table Format: I was overwhelmed with how to explain the process for determining if someone had leprosy in Leviticus 13, which seemed very complicated. After praying, "Lord, if this is difficult for me to understand after reading it many times, how can this be explained to others?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was for me to put it into a vertical chart to visually see the process. This made it much easier for me to follow the progression. After doing so, I prayed, "Lord, how can this be conveyed to readers, so that they can understand this process?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was to put it within the lines of a table. Being a stiff-necked, stubborn person, as it's often called in the Bible, I prayed, asking the Lord God if He's sure that's really what He wanted me to do? I reluctantly put Leviticus 13 into a table format. When I read this difficult leprosy process within a table format, it suddenly became easier for me to understand. That's because it builds line upon line, as explained in the Understanding the Bible section. Shortly after that, the Lord God had it on my heart, to put all of The Books of the Bible in Smaller Chunks within a table format, to aid in understanding, line upon line.

3/06/2023

Leviticus 21:1-24 Rules for Priests

 

Rules for Priests

Leviticus 21:1-24          The Third Book of Moses Called Leviticus

The Lord [told] Moses, Speak to the priests, [Aaron’s] sons, No Priest shall defile himself [by] the dead among his people. Except for his [closest relatives]: his mother, father, his son, his daughter, his brother & his virgin sister [without a] husband.  

[A priest] is a chief man among his people & he shall not defile himself. [Priests] shall not make [any] baldness on their heads, neither shall they shave the [edges] of their [beards,] nor make [any] cuttings in their flesh. 

They shall be holy to their God & shall not profane the Name of their God, for the offerings of the Lord made by fire & the bread of their God, [which] they offer. Therefore they shall be holy. 

[The priests] shall not take [in marriage] a wife who is [an unfaithful harlot] or profane. Neither shall they take a [divorced] woman for [a priest] is holy to his God. You shall sanctify [the priest, because] he offers the bread of your God. 

He shall be holy to you for I, the Lord, who sanctifies you Am holy. If the daughter of a priest plays the [unfaithful harlot,] she shall be [burned] with fire, because she profanes her father. 

He, [who] is the high priest, among his brethren, who has anointing oil poured on his head & is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor [tear] his clothes [nor] go near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother. [Ecclesiastes 3:4 a time to weep & a time to laughter; a time to mourn & a time to dance.] 

Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God, [because] he has [on his head] the anointing oil of his God upon him. I am the Lord & he should take a wife [who is a virgin] of his own people to [marry.] he shall not take a widow, divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot. Neither shall he profane his [lineage] among his people: for I, the Lord, do sanctify him.  

The Lord [spoke] to Moses, saying, speak to Aaron, saying, [Whoever] he [is] of your [descendants] in [future] generations who have any [defect,] a blind man, a lame man, a man with a [disfigured] face or nose, or anything [superficial,] or any limb too long, a man with a broken foot or broken arm or a [hunchback] or a dwarf, [one with] a [defect] in his eyes, has scurvy, scabbed, or is [castrated] or has [damaged testicles,of the descendants] of Aaron, the priest, shall not come [close] to offer the bread of his God.

He [who] has a blemish, he shall not come [close] to offer the bread of his God.  [Although,] he [may] eat the bread of his God, both the holy & the most holy, only he [can’t] go to the veil or come [near] the altar, because he has a [defect,] [so] he [doesn’t] profane My sanctuaries:

For I the Lord do sanctify them. Moses told [this] to Aaron & his sons & to all the children [people] of Israel.