02.12.2015 Old Testament: Lev 14.34–42

To read the Bible in a year, read Leviticus 14 on February 12, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

The priests dealt with the people of Israel, but that sometimes included dealing with their things, such as their homes, looking for something bad in the house, that could affect the people inside,

“When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give you as a possession, and I put the leprous plague in a house in the land of your possession, and he who owns the house comes and tells the priest, saying, ‘It seems to me that there is some plague in the house,’ then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes into it to examine the plague, that all that is in the house may not be made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to examine the house…” (Leviticus 14.34–42). 

If the house was unclean, then the furnishings in the house became unclean. The uncleanness would extend to the people, and that would prevent them from worshiping the Lord.

Worshiping the Lord should highlight our lives, so that if something threatened to keep us from it, we would feel deprived, as these Israelites would have.