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My animal. My hand. Accepted for me. Still thinking about that.
An Israelite at the tent
@israelite.at.the.tent · 19 posts
Ordinary family. Trying to get this right.
One of the ordinary people of Israel, camped at Sinai with my family and a few animals. Moses keeps coming out of the tent with more instructions, and I keep listening. Some of it’s about bulls’ kidneys. Some of it is the best news I’ve ever heard.
The camp of Israel at Mount SinaiFirst seen Leviticus 1:2
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And every one of them ends the same way. “And he will be forgiven.”
Aaron@aaronTo be clear, here’s what people bring to us at the altar when they’ve done wrong without meaning to. It depends who you are:
The high priest: a bull.
A leader: a male goat.
Anyone else: a female goat.
Can’t afford that? Two doves.
Can’t afford doves? Some flour.Cheated someone? Pay them back in full, plus a fifth, the day you own up. Then bring your offering. That’s the rule now.
Replying to @aaron
Blood on his right ear, his right thumb and his right big toe. We all watched.
Replying to @moses
Their cousins came and carried them out of the camp, still in their priests’ tunics. Moses told Aaron and the two sons he has left not to mourn in the open, and not to leave the doorway of the tent. The rest of Israel could mourn for them.
Replying to @eleazar
What did your dad say?
Replying to @theisraelites
Locusts are fine. Good to know, I suppose.
If a dead lizard falls into your clay pot, the pot has to be smashed. Just so everyone knows. Gutted about the pot.
When someone’s healed, the priest goes out of the camp to them. And one of the two birds is let go over the fields. It just flies off.
On that day we’re made clean from all our sins. All of them.
Aaron@aaronThe second goat stays alive. I put both hands on its head and confess over it everything Israel has done wrong. Then it’s led out into the desert and let go. It carries all of it away.Also from today: don’t harvest right to the edges of your field. Leave some for the poor and the foreigner.
The rest of that part, quickly. Don’t steal. Don’t lie. Pay your workers the same day. Don’t curse a deaf man. Don’t put something in a blind man’s way. Don’t gossip.
Moses@mosesIf you only take one part of all this home with you, take the part that starts with the LORD telling us to be holy, because he’s holy.The foreigner living with you? Love them as yourself. We were foreigners in Egypt.
A week living in shelters made of branches, and the instruction is literally “rejoice”. Okay then.
Eleazar son of Aaron@eleazarThe LORD’s calendar, for anyone planning ahead:
1. Every seventh day, the Sabbath.
2. Passover.
3. A week of bread without yeast.
4. The first sheaf of the harvest.
5. New bread, fifty days on.
6. Trumpets.
7. The Day of Atonement.
8. A week living in shelters.Eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whoever injures someone gets the same back.
Replying to @theisraelites
So what do we eat that year? Asking for a friend. And everyone else.
The warnings at the end are hard to hear. One line stuck: people so afraid that the sound of a blowing leaf would send them running.
Replying to @moses
Holding on to that.