Monday: Sincere, but sincerely wrong

From Leviticus 9-12:

1. Sincere, but sincerely wrong - Aaron lost two of his sons pretty quickly during the service to the Lord as priests. I wonder if the sons realized they were not following God's orders in offering this unauthorized fire. So the way I take this is that even if your heart is in the right place, that is not enough. You must also do things in the proper way. It reminds me of when King David was having the Ark moved to Jerusalem the first time. They were transporting it on a wagon with two oxen pulling it, and in 2 Samuel 6 it records that Uzziah died because of the improper mode of transport. I am certain that all of their hearts were in the right place, but the way they did it was wrong.

2. The priests could not drink wine when they went into the Tent of Meeting. I did not realize that.

3. It sounds like the two remaining sons of Aaron made some mistake too, but that Aaron said that he had made the same mistake before. See Leviticus 10:19-20

4. See Leviticus 11:22 - Pass the grasshopper and cricket souffle!

5. Just a technicality, but flying insects do not walk on all fours, they walk on six legs. I assume all fours refers to the fact that they do not walk upright.

6. I did not realize it, but the woman, after giving birth, is to wait 33 days to be purified from the birth of a boy, or sixty six days after the birth of a girl. So even in Jewish culture there probably would be preference to have a boy rather than a girl.