Leviticus 14

At the end of chapter 14 we find the purpose of chapter 13 and 14 is to help distinguish between what is clean and what is unclean. Chapter 14 is dealing more with the outcome once a person or an item has been declared clean. The first two thirds of the chapter deal with the requirements to be considered clean. What an individual is to bring to the priest for a sacrifice once it has been determined they are clean.

In reading this chapter you will see that there is two different requirements concerning an individual found clean of a skin disease. The second requirement is for those that are poor and cannot afford the requirements that were laid out in the first section.

The final section of this chapter deals with two things, the requirements once a home is declared clean and what to do if the house is unable to be declared clean. In the case of the house not being able to have the mildew removed the whole house is to be scraped of plaster and removed. Interesting much like one would have to do if mildew were not able to be removed in a home today. Once a home has been declared clean the owner must bring a sacrifice to be presented to God.

The Application

As we talked about yesterday there is an importance to protect ourselves physically as well as spiritual from being unclean. Today we may not need to bring a sacrifice for skin diseases but we need to seek forgiveness for those things that would destroy our spiritual man.