BRAGADAYJAH 344
And so the Lord God, the God
of Abraham, and Isaac and Jacob, concluded his directions to the children of
Israel concerning their need for holiness; “Ye shall not walk in the manner of
the nation which I cast out before you; for they committed all these things;
therefore I abhorred them. But I have
said unto you, you shall inherit their land and I will give it unto you to
possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey; I am the Lord your God who have
separated you from other people.”
“Therefore, you shall put
difference between clean beasts and unclean, between clean fowls and unclean,
and you shall not make your souls abominable by beasts, or by fowls, or by any
living thing that creeps on the ground which I have separated from you as
unclean.”
“And you shall be holy unto
me, for I, the Lord am holy; and I have separated you from other people that
you shall be mine.”
“A man also or a woman who
has a familiar spirit, or who is a wizard, shall surely be put to death; they
shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.”
So God was telling his
people, I have separated you from other people, for they were unclean. They
were unclean and filthy in their flesh, in how they lived and in what that ate;
you must be not like them. You are
special in my sight; but you must adopt a holy life style and continue in it,
and live live holy lives.
And finally he warned them to
stay away from those who possess or seem to possess or practice witchcraft or wizardry;
these powers, are by implication not of God; but of the devil; avoid such
people and if at any time any of your people indulge in such practices,
eliminate them. More
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