Comprehensive list of things banned in Leviticus

[kristopher]

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Here’s chapter and verse on a more-or-less comprehensive list of things banned in the Leviticus book of the bible. A decent number of them are punishable by death.

Unless you’ve never done any of them (and 54 to 56 are particularly tricky), perhaps it’s time to lay off quoting 18:22 for a while?

1. Burning any yeast or honey in offerings to God (2:11)

2. Failing to include salt in offerings to God (2:13)

3. Eating fat (3:17)

4. Eating blood (3:17)

5. Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve witnessed (5:1)

6. Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve been told about (5:1)

7. Touching an unclean animal (5:2)

8. Carelessly making an oath (5:4)

9. Deceiving a neighbour about something trusted to them (6:2)

10. Finding lost property and lying about it (6:3)

11. Bringing unauthorised fire before God (10:1)

12. Letting your hair become unkempt (10:6)

13. Tearing your clothes (10:6)

14. Drinking alcohol in holy places (bit of a problem for Catholics, this ‘un) (10 )

15. Eating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof (cf: camel, rabbit, pig) (11:4-7)

16. Touching the carcass of any of the above (problems here for rugby) (11:8)

17. Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales (11:10-12)

18. Eating – or touching the carcass of - eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. (11:13-19)

19. Eating – or touching the carcass of – flying insects with four legs, unless those legs are jointed (11:20-22)

20. Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws (good news for cats) (11:27)

21. Eating – or touching the carcass of – the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon (11:29)

22. Eating – or touching the carcass of – a...

http://leviticusbans.tumblr.com/post/23730370413/76-things-banned-in-leviticus

[delrem]

1. Sounds like a fun life.

[Scuba]

2. Number 12 is killing me. So are numbers 60, 61, 72 and 75.

I'm also pretty pissed about people not observing the appropriately numbered 65.

[RKP5637]

3. Oh for the good old times! n/t

[stonecutter357]

4. K&R!

[KansDem]

5. Pretty specific about whom you can't and can't have sex with...

25. Having sex with your mother (18: 7)

26. Having sex with your father’s wife (18:8)

27. Having sex with your sister (18: 9)

28. Having sex with your granddaughter (18:10)

29. Having sex with your half-sister (18:11)

30. Having sex with your biological aunt (18:12-13)

31. Having sex with your uncle’s wife (18:14)

32. Having sex with your daughter-in-law (18:15)

33. Having sex with your sister-in-law (18:16)

34. Having sex with a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter (bad news for Alan Clark) (18:17)

36. Having sex with a woman during her period (18:19)

37. Having sex with your neighbour’s wife (18:20)

39. Having sex with a man “as one does with a woman” (18:22)

40. Having sex with an animal (18:23)

[T_i_B]

6. All but 2 of those are still considered taboo today

Although I'm sure somebody will make the usual hillbilly inbreeding jokes.

[bananas]

7. "The more a person sins, the more grace he will receive, so sin with gusto" - Raputin

[SwankyXomb]

8. Most of the rules had a sound basis.

I said most, not all.

The dietary ones generally came from observing people getting sick and dying from eating those animals.

[Nitram]

10. Swanky, I think only a few (not most) of them have a sound basis.

If you remove the sex-based ones. Most seem based on superstition or a traditional moral code.

[Nitram]

9. RE#19: all flying insects have 6 legs.

[Mosby]

11. your post violates the sop for good reads

[DonViejo]

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