key verse: 2
THUS HE WILL NOT DIE
After having spoken about the purity of the people (consumption, sexuality, leprosy concerning the clothes and the houses), God for a long time speaks about the holiness in this second and final part of Leviticus (the high priest, the place, the moral life, the ceremonies, the sentences, the choice of victims, the feasts, the utensils, the years, the vows, etc).
1. This is how he will enter in the sanctuary (1-28)
God absolutely wanted to keep his community in holiness. All places and all objects are concerned. The high priest must carefully observe these rules so that the purification of the temple is perfect and accomplished. Aaron must overcome his feelings to proceed. He must bring the young bull for his own atonement. He will make this atonement in the blaze and with the perfume, then with the sprinkling of blood. He will go out to continue the office of atonement with one of the two goats brought by the people. One will be offered to the Eternal God and the other will be as Azaziel, which will be chased in the desert. God's will to keep his people in holiness is absolute, so the man who chases the goat must wash before entering in camp.
2. A perpetual prescription (29-34)
This ceremony is annual, Aaron will not enter at any time. It's a holy place forbidden to mankind. Aaron will enter once a year (29). He must bring the offerings which are fully conformed to God's request. But above all, the heart must be pleasing to God, humbled enough before Him (29b, 31). The man who is anointed and inherits from father to son, can officer this ceremony of atonement, so that the people are forgiven from all their sins. It's a perpetual ceremony because it was received on Mount Sinai.
Prayer: Lord, make me holy, because you are holy, making me understand your tireless interest for me.
Bottom line: thus you will not die
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