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April 7th: Leviticus 17 & Mark 5:21-43

Alastair Roberts

April 7th: Leviticus 17 & Mark 5:21-43

April 6, 2020
Alastair Roberts
Alastair Roberts

Slaughter and meat-eating regulations. The woman with the discharge of blood and Jairus' daughter.

Some passages referenced:

Genesis 9:3-6 (the law concerning blood); Genesis 9:6, Numbers 35:33 (similarity between description of shedding blood of an animal and shedding the blood of a human being); Isaiah 13:21, 34:14 (goats and demons in the wilderness); Leviticus 11 (food laws); Deuteronomy 12:15-28 (laws for slaughter and meat-eating in the land).

Numbers 32:41, Deuteronomy 3:14, Judges 10:3-4 (Old Testament Jairs); Mark 6:56, Acts 5:15, 19:12 (healing through touch of garments and other things associated with a healer’s body); Mark 7:34 (words preserved in Aramaic).

Reflections upon the readings from the ACNA Book of Common Prayer (http://bcp2019.anglicanchurch.net/).

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