From Leviticus 22-24:
1. It is interesting to see that sacrifices will not be qualified as pure and without blemish if they have the testicles bruised, crushed, torn or cut. That would mean that no steer would qualify. I wonder if they even raised steer. (For those of you who do not know, a steer is a bull with his testicles removed. It helps keep a strong flavor caused by male chemicals - perhaps testosterone - from pervading the meat.)
2. No one was to eat the sacred offering food, except for the priest and his family. It is nice to know, however, that God made provision for those who would live with the priest on certain occasions, such as slaves or a divorced priest's daughter who had come back home to live.
3. Which one? - I wonder about the son of the Israelite mother and Egyptian father. It states that the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. Since there were two people fighting, I assume that this refers to the one with the Egyptian father. However, would it not have been easier to say the one with the Egyptian father to make it clearer? Or was it the other individual? In the second case, it makes me feel happy to see that God was not a respecter of persons, regardless of heritage, if they did not respect His name. However, regardless of the individual, it shows us how grievious it is to God when we use His name in vain or curse His name.
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