Just a question I had...

Does Leviticus 5:1 sound confusing to anyone? It says:

And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

It seems a little funny to me that Christ would blame the hearer of someone else swearing or taking his name in vain. And when it says "then he shall bear his iniquity" whose iniquity are we talking about? I did look up the Greek for the word "hear" and it said,

"a primitive root; to hear intelligently

(often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.):--X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness."

So perhaps if a soul hears someone swear and proclaims/regards/or declares it he shall bear iniquity? The word witness also means "testimony; specifically, a recorder", so....maybe it has something to do with gossiping to someone else ( i.e."you know what I heard Mrs. Smith saying???")

And another thing...how much of the OT law is still true for our lives now? Obviously, making sure that our burnt offering's head is turned towards the northeast isn't something we have to worry about....but why was that stuck in the Bible?

As you can tell, I'm running in circles here so any input would be helpful :)

Thank you! I really love reading all of your thoughts, and having you here has helped me stay on track with my reading...mostly... :P

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I'll just admit it up front. Emma is practically in Matthew, and I'm sure Tiff is right on top of the reading too, but I'm not. We're supposed to do day 7 today, but I'm at more like 5...oh well, I'll catch up!

Anywho, I had a question. You know how the story of Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt, though the desert, and then into the promised land is a picture of Christ leading us out of the world, though our lives, and then into the "promised land?" So as I'm reading the story these spiritual pictures are popping up all over the place.

In lots of different places, but right now I've noticed it in chapter 13 especially, God (through Moses) talks about the unleavened bread. He really goes on about it quite a bit, so I'm thinking there has to be some spiritual picture there, but I'm not sure what it is. In Matthew 16:6 Jesus says "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees."

So I'm just wondering, do any of you know what the spiritual picture is with the unleavened bread?

EDIT:

So as soon as I had this posted I thought "you dummy!" Why don't you go see if you can find anything else in the word? So besides a lot more about the feast of unleavened bread and such, I did find this verse in I Corinthians 5:8 "Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."

I think this verse is another example of the "new law," if you will. The "law" of grace taking the place of the Old Testament law.

But I'm still not sure what the deal is with unleavened bread...