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Leviticus 19:19-34: Lessons from rules on bondservants, mixing of cloths and seeds

Lev. 19:19-34 may seem like a disjointed collection of rules about managing servants, textiles and crops. But when we see that these are used as symbols elsewhere for characteristics of people, we can learn God’s lessons that transcend culture and time.

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Leviticus 19-20 — God teaches Israel how to be holy

Up to this point, most of Leviticus has described how the Levites were to serve God. Starting at this point, we now start to learn how God wants the people to serve him.