Today, I am reading and commenting on  Leviticus 19-21.

Today’s passage starts off with God telling Moses to tell the people to be holy because the Lord their God is holy.  We also should seek to be holy because the Lord ,our God, is holy.   After this introduction, God gave Moses a bunch of commands to give the people.  Many of these commands were followed by one of two statements: either “I am the Lord your God,” or, “I am the Lord.”  I think that this statement refers us to the first of the Ten Commandments (or, Ten Words): “I am the Lord your God.  You shall have no other gods before me.”  Personally, I think the reference Jesus makes to the greatest commandment from Deuteronomy makes that meaning even clearer: “The Lord our God, the Lord is one.  Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”  So, the point of following these commands with one of those two statements is designed to remind us that following these commands is how we follow that first, most important one.  Oh, I know that some of these no longer govern our behavior as followers of Christ (e.g. “Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.”).  However, I do not see a single one which is directly followed by one of those statements which I do not believe represent behavior which we should model.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.