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How did I ever misread this?

I was always had the mental picture that only the priests were allowed to sacrifice at the Tent of Meeting. (I don't know whether this is true for the Temple service, but I'll look into that.)

But reading Leviticus 1 this morning it stood out to me that the man bringing the sacrifice has to slaughter the animal and cut it apart. The priests then place the meat on the altar. If the #sacrifice is a pigeon then the #priest does everything.

Is this how you understand it as well as this is news to me and I have read these passages many times in my live and never "saw" this?

#sacrifices #tentofmeeting

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This is and has always been so, in both the Mishkan (Tabernacle) and the Hekal (Temple). Certain sacrifices must be brought by a kohain (priest), but many or most can optionally be slain by the offerer with oversight by a kohain. A few sacrifices MUST be slain by the offerer personally.
To make a sacrifice lawfully, the offerer must be a member of the people of Yisrael and in a properly cleansed state. Yet, even uncleansed gentiles could make a sacrifice through the kohanim as intermediaries, though they were not allowed into the Temple precincts to witness it. This is all according to Torah law.
If anyone wishes to learn Torah law in detail, both the rabbinical version of 613 and those commands not listed specifically by the rabbis, I recommend our recent series on this which can be found on the YouTube channel of Sabbath Keepers Fellowship. It goes through the entire yearly cycle of Torah portions, week by week, listing and briefly expounding on every command. The series is presently new, having just recently been completed, and is still raw and unedited, but all available to view. Soon, we hope to have the edited version complete, which will omit the post-lesson comments and questions by others and will be much shorter.
For those who claim or wish to be truly "Torah-Observant," learning what all Torah law is becomes rather important, don't you think?
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Yes, , now that you pointed it out "he" seems to refer to the one bringing the burnt offering. Whenever the priest is reffered to, it says "the priest" clearly. Good eye!

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This is how I understood and taught it in our congregation.

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"And I will feed thine oppressors with their own flesh"
וְהַאֲכַלְתִּי אֶת־מוֹנַיִךְ אֶת־בְּשָׂרָם

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Thought for Today: Tuesday June 25
The better we know YHVH’s Word, the more clearly, we will know His will. That means your sense of vision as you share your faith with others is the reflection of the heart of YHVH Elohiym.

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TS2009 Be still, and know that I am Elohim; I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth!

Sometimes, the best blessing is in the still of things. Like @ 4 am, before people start their cars to go to work. Or in a close neighbor being gone for several days. Yah is in the stillness. He is inviting you to commune with Him. Stillness is an extra blessing for those of us who have adhd...stillness of the mind is rare for us! An extended time to relax from a busy mind, give thanks, and really feel His presence does wonders for the soul!

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The book of the Covenant:

Exo 24:7 BSB Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

So all the contents of Exodus chapters 20-23 amount to the Book of the Covenant. To be His people, these are the minimum statutes we must keep. There are more detailed laws later on how to keep these first few, but the Ten Commandments were just the opening act to this Covenant at Sinai.

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I was just thinking on that this morning as I finished with Exodus. I asked a similar question some months ago as to which books/chapters is the Book of the Covenant that is refered to. The general accepted answer was that the Book of the Covenant = the first five books (Torah) and some of the other books in the Old Testament.

BUT it later became clear to me that all these writings weren't included in the Book of the Covenant.

Yes, they all have bearing, just like the New Testament, to explain what the Covenant laws are, but it isn't part of the Covenant agreement.

I now hold that Exodus 20-23 is the actual content that got read before the people and not most of the Old Testament.

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The Hebrew text of Joshua 2:15 says Rahab let the spies down from her window with a rope because her house was built into the city wall, but the Septuagint just says she let them down from her window. Curious.

Since Rahab was using her roof as a place to dry flax, she probably had a rope/pulley system to lift the flax from the fields outside up to her roof. This is why she was able to lower the spies without help.

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Check out the Torah Portion reading for this week!

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Remember Cinderella? She’s a servant in her own home, oppressed by her adopted family, and unable to access her true identity as her father’s heir. We like that story because Cinderella finally steps into her noble identity and receives everything that has been kept from her. But it’s a fairy tale, right? Nothing like that could ever happen in real life.
Revis Daggett can tell you that this is no fairy tale for the multitudes of Hidden Jews, or Anusim, of the Americas. As a native of West Texas, she began to encounter clues about these children of Israel whose ancestors hid their identity and fled to the New World in search of refuge from the holocaust of the Spanish Inquisition. In this five-part interview, Revis shares her journey of discovery, not only of the Jewish ancestry of her Hispanic neighbors, but of her own Anusim identity.
Torah is a key component in this journey to discover our Hebraic roots. Contrary to what we may have heard, keeping Torah doesn’t bring us into legalistic bondage, but reorients us to the Law of Freedom. That’s the topic of discussion in the midrash by Barry Phillips and David Jones. As we hear in the music of Dylan White and Will Spires, this is a matter of trust that matures us into a reflection of our Creator.
https://bneyyosefna.com/revis-....daggett-the-shadow-o