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Peace is _____

Ancestors. DNA.

Read the text.

What is Peace_____

What is Well-Being_______

Christological connection

Application:

Presents a male or female (ambivalence in gender) A

Lay his hand on the head (specificity in exchange)B

The one present must present a peace offering. A’

a. Peace offering is also called the “Well-being” offering.

b. The Peace offering is voluntary notice “if his offering is a peace offering”. It is voluntary just like the burnt offering and grain offering.

c. The skin along with most of the meat is retained by the offerer in distinction of the burnt offering which becomes the property of the officiating priest (7:8)

d. The ceremonies of the covenant in Exod 24:5; Num 6–7; and Deut 27:7

e. The peace offering is elsewhere associate with a shared banquet (e.g., Solomon’s feast for his servants in 1Kgs 3:15).

Luke 5:33–35; Matt 11:19; Psalm 107:21; Psalm 116:17–19;

The offerings found the levitical laws not the other way. It is offering before instruction but you will say how about 1Sam, Obedience before Sacrifice? But Samuel means that the sacrifice makes no sense without obedience doing the will of God (as we see in Psalm 40). What the structure of Leviticus shows us is that approach to God in holiness is the foundation on which our communal ethics will be built.

The peace offering is present at covenant ratifications(

Why the ambivalence of gender?

The peace offering was meant to be eaten. And because God desires to eat and commune his people, the gender plays no role.

Point to the example of Abraham and Sarah eating with God (Gen 18

This doesn’t mean that there is a beautiful significance for gender distinctiveness in animal sacrifice, some of the animals had to be male (for instance the sin offering/reparation offering) but it does mean that Leviticus presents a beautiful world with a multi-coloured labyrinth of scents, smells, blood and gender all ordered around one thing and one thing alone - worship and communion with God.

Why lean his hand?

The word “lean hand” (samak yad) is to be distinguished from placing hand (sam yad). In the latter the person laying the head is bestowing a blessing, in this case the person placing the hand is applying pressure. The picture is of a lot of work. It is a picture of wrestling. In fact, in later rabbinical writings, it was forbidden to lay hands on a live animal during Sabbatth.

Another important thing to notice is that the offerer is meant to lean one hand, it is only on the Day of Atonement that the High Priest leans both hands. So the picture here is not so much of the transference of sin.

Why reserve the suet (i.e the kidney and entrails) for God?

Ps 139:13 You knitted me in my inward parts

The kidneys and liver is the picture of the inner life. Notice the sacrifice even mirrors the three compartments of the tabernacle.

Outer court = the life of the animal (v.1-2a)

Inner court = the symbols of covenant devotion (Note: it is the one who is presenting it)/the splashing of blood (v.2b-3)

Most inner court = The Sons of Aaron offer it up (v.5) and communion and feasting

Why the sequence that the peace/well-being offering will be place on or with the burnt offering? In other words why the order?

The offering is peace itself and peace is given in the offering.

Why the reference to not eating blood and the perpetual statute?

See Lev 3:17; 7:26; 17:1-7;

Eating the blood is touching the body of Christ before intercession.

The blood rite of the peace offering was of quintessential significance.

1 Sam 2:13–14 refers to the peace offering. And we can understand how heinous this was for Israel’s destiny and eventually the glory of the Lord.