*Omitted (should not have been added to the Laws)
**Changed (a misinterpretation of the Law or based on the wrong scripture)
***No Longer Kept (No longer applicable today)
The following Laws pertain to the Tabernacle and its
components (oil, incense, Ark, etc.) and employees and instructions on how all
should be handled in service. You’ll
find that they all have *** in front of them, indicating they can no longer be
kept in today’s world, as there is no Tabernacle or Temple in which to keep the
Most High’s service. Note, how important
not reproducing the anointing oil and incense is to the Most High. This means, the anointing oil and incense was
meant for one place and for one people.
Not for 100,000 “temples” across the world to mass produce and use in their
own individual services. None-the-less, these Laws can be a reference for how
the holy priests of Israel were to honor their positions in the tabernacle and
Temple. Many churches have attempted to
imitate this order in their buildings but the true Levites, scattered today,
can never be replaced.
*** Law #307 To prepare the anointing oil
Ex. 30:31 “And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, this shall be a holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
The command is to prepare the anointing oil.
***Law #308 Not to reproduce the anointing oil & ***309 Not
to anoint with anointing oil
Ex. 30:32 “Upon man’s flesh shall it not be poured, neither
shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and
it shall be holy unto you.”
The commands are two; to not reproduce the anointing oil for
other purposes and not to anoint a person with anointing oil.
***Law #310 Not to reproduce the incense formula
Ex. 30:37 “And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye
shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be
unto thee holy for the Most High.”
The command is not to reproduce the incense formula for
other purposes.
***Law #311 Not to burn anything on the Golden Altar besides
incense (Ex. 30:9)
Ex. 30:9 “Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor
burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering
thereon (upon the lamps the Aaron light vs. 8)
The command is not to burn anything on the golden alter
besides incense.
***Law #312 The Levites must transport the ark on their
shoulders
Num. 7:9 “But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because
the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon
their shoulders.
The command here is that the Levites only transport the Ark
on their shoulders
***Law #313 Not to remove the staves from the ark
Ex. 25:15 “The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they
shall not be taken from it.
The Law is not to remove the staves from the Ark
***Law #314 The Levites must work in the Temple
“Num. 18:23 “But the Levites shall do the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be
a statue forever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel
they have no inheritance.
The Law says the Levites must work in the Temple. It was their responsibility and had the
Tabernacle/Temple existed today, according to scripture this would still be the
case for the Levite, “forever.” However,
the Nation is scattered and the present day Levite tribe specifically is not
identified among the Israelite descendants.
***Law #315 No Levite must do another’s work of either a
Kohen or a Levite
Num. 18:3 “And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of
all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary
and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
The Law states that no Levite does the work of another
Levite/Kohan
***Law #316 To dedicate the Kohen for service
Lev. 21:8 “Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he
offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord,
which sanctify you, am holy.”
The Law is to dedicate the Kohan for service
**/***#317 The kohanic work shifts must be equal during
holidays
Deut. 18:6-8 “If a Levite come from any of thy gates out of
all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto
the place which the Most High shall choose; Then he shall minister in the name
of the Most High, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before
Him. They shall have like portions to
eat, beside that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.”
According to Maimonide’s List, the Law here says the Kohan’s
work shifts must be equal on holidays. However it doesn’t quite say that in
scripture. It says the coming Levite
shall minister as all his brethren and they shall eat equal portions, so we do
see equality among them. There’s no
mention of holidays. This no is no
longer observable but if it where it would need to be changed. The true Law is for the Kohen to eat equal
portions.
***Law #318 The Kohanim must wear their priestly garments
during service
Ex. 28:2 “Thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy
brother for glory and for beauty.”
Kohanim must wear priestly garments during service. Verse 3 goes on to say, “…to consecrate him,
that he may minister unto Me in the priest’s office.”
***Law #319 Not to tear the priestly garments
Ex. 28:32 “And there shall be a hole in the top of it
(priestly robe), in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round
about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a habergeon, that it be not rent.
This Law is no longer observable today, as no Levitical
priest is identified to wear this garment and no temple exists to work in.
***Law #320 the breastplate must not be loosened from the
Ephod
Ex. 27:28 “And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings
thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above
the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from
the ephod.
The breastplate of the priestly garment must not be loosened
from the ephod.
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