Law Sermon Assignment - Justification Leviticus 14:33-42
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Law Sermon Assignment - Justification Leviticus 14:33-42 Context of Passage The context is important for the understanding of this passage. It is part of a section of Leviticus that gives instructions on purity and impurity, where the focus shifts from the sanctuary to everyday life. Chapters 11-15 of Leviticus deal with a variety of situations that produce uncleanness, situations that defile a body or environment and thus limit a person's ability to come near to God's holy presence. These purification rituals for an unclean house are part of the purification rituals for unclean persons or clothes, which are described as showing sara'at.1,2 This in a person is often translated as leprosy, but actually covers a wide range of skin disease and includes mildew on cloth or a house. These were designated as a major impurity.3 Such serious disease made their victim unclean whilst they were present.4 The instructions for inspection, removal and subsequent...


