Week 5 Leviticus
Leviticus.
It’s a bit of a relief that I already made my decision to read through at the beginning of the year. What that means is that today I don’t have to ask myself: should I bother reading Leviticus? To read or not to read isn’t the question.
Still…even though I’ve decided to read everything I do make distinctions when I read. For example I differentiate between what I’d call Gram-Weight Readings and Kilogram-Weight Readings. My informal MHJ Weighting-Scale doesn’t have anything to do with estimating the importance or value of a book – in fact my basic rule is that all sixty-six books are valuable. The MHJ Weighting-Scale is really just a personal and practical way to help me determine the time I’ll devote to different readings – a kind of pace-determiner scale.
Gram-Weight Readings will tend to get less time; Kilogram-Weight Readings get more time. Skimming along versus diving down.
If I re-ordered the five books of Moses according to my Weighting-Scale the bible would look like this: Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Numbers, Leviticus – heaviest to lightest.
Which explains why I spent thirty-one days reading the ninety chapters of the heftier Genesis-Exodus. It was all I could afford. It also explains why it’s unlikely I’ll spend the whole month of February on the ninety-seven chapters that are in Deuteronomy and the much lighter-weight Numbers-Leviticus.