Concise Survey of
THE OLD TESTAMENT

And How It Contrasts With the New Testament


Lesson Three
The Law of Moses
1500 BC

Exodus
DAY ONE:
25:1���� Was the tabernacle (tent of worship) paid for by tithing?� ______________
25:10�� According to the footnote, how many feet long and wide was the golden Ark of the Covenant?� _________________
25:18f� On the cover were to be two ________________________ (angels), one at each end facing each other, with their ____________________ spread _________________ and outward over the ___________________.
25:14�� It was to be carried with __________________________ on each side.� We might think this is not very important and God would want us to carry it with best way or the most ceremonious way we could.� However, in 2 Samuel 6:3, they moved the ark by putting it on a _________________.� Verses 6 and 7 says that the oxen stumbled and the ark started to fall to the ground so a man named Uzzah took _________________ of the ark.� What did God do to this man?� ______________________________� How important is it to worship God the way he said and not our way? ___________________________________� _________________________________________________________________________________________
����������� According to Hebrews 9:4, what was placed inside this ark?� ______________________________________
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25:23�� According to the footnote [if you have a NIV translation], how many feet long, wide and high was the table of shewbread? ___________________
25:30�� According to Leviticus 6:16, the bread placed on this table was to be made without ___________________.� Do you think God would have been pleased had they made it with yeast "because it tastes better that way"?� __________
25:32�� The golden lampstand was divided in half with _____________ branches on each side of the upright stand.
25:37�� There was to be a cup at the top of each of the six branches and one in the middle, making a total of __________ cups for seven lamps.� How important do you think it was for them to have exactly seven branches, despite what they thought might be prettier or give more light?� See below.
����������� Revelation 1:12 depicts the Son of God standing amidst _______________ golden lampstands.� Verse 20 says they represented ________________________ churches.
26:1f��� The tabernacle (tent of worship) was made of ten curtains, each 42 feet long and 6 feet high.� How many square feet would that make the tabernacle?� ____________________
26:33�� Another curtain was used as a room divided to separate the ________________ Place from the Most ______________ Place.
26:34�� What was placed behind the curtain in the Most Holy Place? _______________________________ __________________________________________
����������� (Note:� Only one person was allowed to enter the Most Holy Place, the High Priest, and even then just once a year - see below.)
����������� Matthew 27:51 says that at the moment of Jesus' death, what tore in the temple?� _____________________
����������� Hebrews 10:19-20 says we all can now enter the ________________________________________________ because symbolically Jesus became the ________________ and invites us all to enter in.
����������� Would this symbolism have had any meaning to us if the Jews had not put the curtain exactly where God told them to? __________
DAY TWO:
27:1���� According to the footnote, how many feet long and high was the altar for burnt offerings? _____________________
27:2���� What was to be placed on each corner of the altar? ______��
30:10�� Once a year, the high priest was to make ______________ for the people's sins on its _____________________ with _______________________.
����������� In Luke 1:69, at the birth of John the Baptist, his father said next soon God would raise up a descendant of David to be a __________________ of salvation for us.
27:9���� Outside the tabernacle was to be a courtyard, also enclosed with curtains, the south and north sides being how many feet long? ___________________
27:12�� The west and east sides were to be how many feet long?� _______________
30:1f��� The golden altar for burning incense was how many feet long, wide, and high?� ________________________
30:6���� Where was this altar to be placed? ___________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________
����������� Do you think God would have been pleased if they had placed it somewhere else?� ____________� Would it have interfered with the symbolism this later offered?
����������� Revelation 8:3 says that in heaven in front of the throne of God is the altar of incense which now offers the fragrant ____________________________ of all the saints (Christians).
30:21�� What did God say would happened if the priests did not use the bronze basin to wash in?� _______________________
����������� Since Revelation 1:6 says all Christians are now priests, what is the relationship between this washing and the washing of baptism which the first-century Christians practiced (Acts 22:16)?� ____________________________
30:30�� To consecrate Aaron as high priest and his sons as priests, what did Moses do to them?� ______________
����������� Why do you think that, when Jesus proclaimed himself the anointed one (Luke 4:18-21, 28), the Jews became so angry and tried to kill him? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________
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����������� To answer the question, "How important was it that they follow God's pattern exactly," look at Hebrews 8:5.� This tabernacle and its furnishings served as a ______________ and shadow of what is in ______________________.
Leviticus
Named after the Levite Tribe which became priests and their aides
DAY THREE:
BURNT OFFERINGS
1:3������ The burnt offering must be a male without _____________.� (Compare with 2 Corinthians 5:21 and Hebrews 9:14) "God made him who had ________� sin...."Christ...offered himself un___________________ to God.
1:9������ It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, an __________________ pleasing to the Lord.� (Compare with Ephesians 5:2)� Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a _________________________ offering and sacrifice to God.
2:13���� Season all your grain offerings with __________________.� Do not leave the salt of the _______________ of your God out....add ______________________ to all your offerings.� (Compare with Matthew 5:13)� You are the ____________ of the earth.
FELLOWSHIP OFFERINGS
3:17���� You must not eat any fat or any blood.� (Compare with Acts 15:20) ....abstain from...meat of strangled animals and from blood.
SIN OFFERINGS
4:1f����� The Law of Moses provided for sacrifices for anyone who sins _______________________________.� (Compare with Acts 17:30) In times past God overlooked such ____________________________________ ______________________________, but now he commands all people everywhere to ___________________________.� (See Romans 1:20; 2:12-15; 3:9 & 23 regarding repenting and obeying God by instinct.)
4:12f��� Part of the bull of offering is to be eaten.� The rest must be taken _____________________ the camp.� (Compare with Hebrews 13:11-12)� The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp.� And so Jesus also suffered ________________________ the __________ gate to make the people ______________ through his _______ blood.�
GUILT OFFERINGS�
7:6,9��� Any male in a priest's family may ___________ it [sacrifice]....Every grain offering ______________ in an oven or ___________ in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who offers it.� (Compare with 1 Corinthians 9:13-14.) Don't you know that those who work in the _______________________ get their __________________ from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?� In the same way, the Lord has ________________________ that those who____________ the gospel should receive their _________________ from the gospel.
7:26f��� You must not eat the _____________________________ of any bird or animal.� If anyone eats __________________, that person must be ________________________________ from his people.� (See Acts 17:10b) ...abstain...from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
8:15���� Moses slaughtered the bull and took some of the ________, and with his finger he put it on all the horns of the altar to ____________________ to altar....to make _____________ for it.� (Compare with Hebrews 9:21-23) "This is the blood of the covenant....he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies.� In fact, the law _______________________________ that nearly everything be ___________________ with blood, and without the ____________________________ of blood there is no forgiveness.� It was ___________________ for the _____________________ of the heavenly things to be purified with these ________________________."
9:7������ "Come to the altar and _______________________ your __________ offerings and your burnt offerings and make ____________________________________ for yourself and the people."� (Compare with Hebrews 7:24 & 27) Because ____________________ lives forever, he has a permanent __________________....Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer ______________________________ day after day, first for his own sins and then for the ________ of the people.� He _____________________ for their sins once for all when he offered ________________ ____________________________________.
DAY FOUR:
10:1f��� We tend to think that God will overlook things we do in worship, even though he did not tell us to do those things.� Look at what happened to two of the sons of Aaron, Moses' brother and the first High Priest of the Jews:� "....took their censers, put ____________________________________________ in them and added _____________________________; and they offered ______________________________ fire before the Lord, contrary to his command.� So ___________________ came out from the presence of the Lord and ________________ them, and they died before the Lord."� When God tells us to do something, we're to do it his way, not our way.  He is God, not us.
10:9 ��� "You and your sons are __________ to drink ___________ or other ______________________ drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die."� (Compare with 1 Timothy 3:2-3) Now the ____________________ [elder] must be above reproach....not given to _________________.
CLEAN & UNCLEAN FOOD
11:2f��� They were allowed to eat any animals with a split _____________ and chewed the _____________.� (Compare with Acts 10:11-14 & 28) ...heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down....contained all kinds of four-footed __________________________....Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter, Kill and ____________."� "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied.� "I have ever _________ anything impure or _____________________....You are well aware that it is against our law for a __________ to associate with a __________ or visit him.� But _______________ has shown me that I should not all any man impure or __________________________."
HEALTH REGULATIONS
13:6���� Anyone with a sore or rash that does not go away is to have a priest look at it.� Then on the _________________ day, the priest is to ________________________ him again, and if the sore has faded and has not spread in the _____________, the priest shall pronounce him _________; it is only a rash.� The man must wash his _____________, and he will be ____________________.� (Compare with Luke 5:13-14)� Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man.� "I am willing," he said.� "Be ________________!"� And immediately the _____________________ left him.� Then Jesus ordered him..."show yourself to the _________ _________ and offer the sacrifices that ________________ commanded for your cleansing."
15:25�� When a woman has a discharge of ______________ for _______________ days at a time other than her _________________ period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be ______________________ as long as she has the...
15:31�� ...discharge....You must keep the Israelites ________________ from things [and people] that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for ________________________________ my ______________________________.� (Compare with Mark 5:25-29) A woman was there who had been subject to _______________________ for _____________ years.� She had suffered a great deal under the care of ________________ doctors and had __________________ all she had....When she heard about Jesus....Immediately her __________________ stopped.
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT
16:2���� Aaron [the High Priest] was not to enter any time he wanted into the ___________________________________ ______________________ Place which was behind the __________________________ where the Ark of the Covenant was.� (Compare Hebrews 9:7-8) Only the ________________ ___________________ entered the _______________________ ____________________, and that only once a year, and never without ______________, which was offered for himself and for the __________ the people had committed in ignorance.� The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the _________________ had not yet been disclosed as long as the first __________ was still standing.
16:3���� This is how Aaron is to enter the sanctuary area:� with a young bull for a ______________________ offering.� (Compare Hebrews 9:24-25) For ___________ did not enter a manmade _______________ that was only a __________________ of the true one; he entered _______________ itself, now to appear for us in God's presence.
16:6���� Aaron is to offer the bull for his own _____________________________ offering to make _______________________ for himself and his household.� (Compare Hebrews 9:12) He [Jesus] did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own ________________, having obtained ___________________ redemption.
DAY FIVE:
16:10�� The _____________ chosen by lost as the ______________ shall be presented _______________ before the Lord to be used for making ________________________ by sending it into the ____________________ as a scapegoat.� (Compare 1 John 2:2) He [Jesus] is the _______________ _____________________ for our sins.
16:14�� He [High Priest] is to take some of the bull's _________ and with his finger _______________ it on the front of the atonement ____________________ [lid of ark in the Holy of Holies].� (Compare Hebrews 10:21-22) He [the High Priest] sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies...without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
16:34�� This is to be lasting ordinance for you:� _______________ is to be made ________ a ____________ for all the sins of the Israelites.� (Notice, God did not leave us guessing what should be done once a year.)� (Compare Hebrews 10:3-4) Those sacrifices are an annual________________________ of sins, because it is ________________________ for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
17:11f� "I will set my face ____________________ that person who eats ____________ and will cut him off from his people.� For the _________________ of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make _____________ for yourselves on the altar; it is the ____________ that makes atonement for one's life."� (Compare Acts 15:20) "....abstain from....___________________."
HUMAN RELATIONS
18:22�� Do not lie with a ________ as one lies with a __________; that is ____________________________.� (Compare Romans 1:27)� In the same way the __________________ also abandoned natural relations with _____________ and were inflamed with __________________ for one another.� Men committed ______________ acts with other _______ and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
19:12f� Do not _________ falsely by my name.� (Compare Matthew 5:33-37)� You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not break your oath, but keep the oath you have made to the Lord.'� But I tell you, Do not ________ at all....Simply let your Yes be _______, and your No be _______.
20:9���� If anyone _______________ his father or mother, he must be put to __________________.� (Compare Matthew 15:4-6) "God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'� But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might ________________ have received from ____________ is a gift [I have instead] devoted to __________,' he is not to honor his father _____________.� Thus you _______________ the word of _______________ for the sake of your _______________________."
RELIGIOUS DAYS
23:3���� There are __________ days when you may work, but the seventh day is a ___________ of rest, a day of sacred ______________________.� (Compare Hebrews 4:9-10 and Revelation 14:13) There remains, then, a ______________ rest for the people of God [in the Christian era]; for anyone who enters ______________ rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his....Blessed are the dead who _____________ in the Lord from now on.� Yes, they will _______ from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.
23:16�� [From the Passover] count off _____________ [pent] days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord from wherever you ____________.� (Compare Acts 2:1) When the day of Pente-cost came, they were all together in one place.
23:34�� On the fifteenth day of the ___________________ month the Lord's Feast of ______________________ begins, and it lasts for seven days.� (Compare John 7:2, 14) But when the Jewish Feast of _____________________ was near....halfway through the Feast did ___________________ go up to the Temple courts and begin to teach.
23:36�� ....on the ________________ day hold a sacred _______________________ and present an offering made to the Lord by fire.� It is the ___________________ assembly.� (Compare John 7:37) On the last and __________________ day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a ___________________________ ________________________, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me a drink!"
DAY SIX:
24:16�� Anyone who _________________________________ the name of the Lord must be put to _____________________ ....when he blasphemes the ___________, he must be put to death.� Compare Matthew 26:63-66:� The high priest said to [Jesus]....are you the Christ, the Son of God....then the high priest tore his clothes and said, "He has spoken _________________!"� "....He is worthy of death," they answered.�
24:20�� Fracture for fracture, _____________ for ______________, _______________ for _____________.� As he has ______ _________ the others, so he is to be __________________. Compare Matthew 5:38-39:� You have heard that it was said, "__________ for ____________, and _____________ for _______________." But I tell you, Do not __________ _______________________ an evil person.� If someone strikes you on the ____________________ cheek, turn to him the _______________________ also.
25:23�� The land must not be sold __________________, because the land is mine and you are but ________________ and my tenants.� Compare 1 Peter 2:11:� Dear friends, I urge you, as ________________ and __________________ in the world, to abstain from sinful desires which war against your soul.
26:12�� I will walk ___________ you and be your ____________, and you will be my ________________.� Compare 2 Corinthians 6:16:�� What agreement is there between the temple of _______________ and ____________________?� For ______________ are the __________________ of the _________________ God.� As God has said, "I will live with them and walk _____________ them, and I will be their God, and they will be my _________________."
26:41�� ....then when their _________________________________ hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin....� (Compare Acts 7:51) You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears!� You are just like your fathers.
OBEDIENCE AND DISOBEDIENCE
26:2���� Observe my ______________________ and have reverence for my sanctuary.
26:3,6� If you follow my ___________ and are ________________ to obey my commands....I will grant peace in the land.
Numbers
Named after the Census
NOTE:� The early part of this book involves their original census after leaving Egypt.� The last part involves their last census 40 years later before entering the Promised Land.
Most of this book is repeated in Deuteronomy.� "Deu" in Hebrew means twice or second; "teronomy" means testimony or telling.� These events - their early wanderings - were covered in the lesson on Moses.
3:5-7��� Which tribe did God give Aaron, the High Priest, and his sons the priests, as their assistants?� __________________
����������� Centuries earlier, Abraham recognized a different priest, Melchizedek, priest-king of (Jeru)salem (Genesis 14:18-20).� Centuries later, God said he was doing away with the Levite priesthood and was now making Jesus the high priest after the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 7:11-12).� Hebrews 7:17 refers to Jesus as being a _______________ forever.� Hebrews 7:24-25 says Jesus has a ____________ priesthood because he will never die.� Hebrews 8:1 & 2 says that Jesus is now serving as our high priest in ________________ which is the true __________________.
3:12f��� God chose the Levites from all the twelve tribes to serve him in place of the ______________ male offspring.� Why did God claim the firstborn?� __________________________________________________ ________________________________________________
18:15f� The firstborn of every animal and person was claimed by God, but they could be redeemed ("bought back") at the tabernacle for how many shekels of silver?� ____________� One sheckel was worth $80.� Therefore, how much did it cost for couples to redeem their firstborn son? _____________________________
����������� Leviticus 12:3 says every male shall be _______________ on the _________________ day of their life.� Compare this with Luke 2:21 where ___________________________ was circumcised.�
����������� (NOTE:� This is where the Christian movement centuries ago decided babies needed to be baptized ~ a "Christian" continuation of this Jewish law.� To see whether they were right, search the New Testament for references to infant/baby baptism.)
����������� Leviticus 12:1-8 says every woman upon childbirth is considered ceremonially unclean (cannot go to the tabernacle to worship, etc.).� If she has a son (v. 1) she is "unclean" for how many days?� _________� Then she is to go to the tabernacle and offer a ___________________ as a burnt offering and a ______________________ for a sin offering.� But if she cannot afford the lamb, she may bring two _____________ ______________ or _______________.
����������� Compare this with Luke 2:22-24.� Do you think the newly weds Mary and Joseph were at least middle class or poor?� __________________________
LAW OF MOSES
177Categories and Sub-Categories
(Approximately 600 Commandments, Not Just Ten)
I.� Religious & Ceremonial Laws
  A.          Against Idolatry and Paganism
��� B.�������� Against False Spiritualists
��� C.������� Blasphemy
��� D.�������� Dedications
��� E.�������� Tithing
��� F.�������� Sabbath
��� G.������� Special Feasts
��� H.�������� Sacrifices and Offerings
��� I.��������� Other Rituals
��� J.�������� Rules for Priests
��� K.�������� Special Years
��� L.�������� Purification
��� M.������� Persons Excluded
��� N.�������� Special Vows
II.� Government
��� A.������� King
��� B.�������� Respect for Rulers
��� C.������� Judicial System
III.� Special Crimes
��� A.������� Against a Person
��� B.�������� Against Property
IV.  Personal Rights
��� A.������� Restitution for Loss
��� B.�������� Seduction
��� C.������� Injuries and Damages
��� D.�������� Masters and Servants
��� E.�������� Credit, Interest, Collateral
��� F.�������� Contracts and Agreements
��� G.������� Weights and Measures
��� H.�������� Inheritance
V.� Marriage, Divorce, Sexual Relations
��� A.������� Marriage
��� B.�������� Divorce
��� C.������� Sexual Violations
VI.� Health and Dietary
��� A.������� Health Regulations
��� B.�������� Dietary Regulations
VII.� General Welfare
��� A.������� Requirements for Benevolence�(Welfare Program)
��� B.�������� Respect and Support
��� C.������� Treatment of Animals
VIII.� Warfare
��� A.������� Preparation for Battles
��� B.�������� Rules of Siege
��� C.������� Camp Regulations
��� D.�������� Soldiers and Marriage
IX.� Responsibilities Toward these Laws
��� A.������� Obedience Required
��� B.�������� Duty to Promote
��� C.������� Blessings of Obedience
��� D.�������� Punishments for Disobedience�
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