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The Need For a Standard
In this chapter we face the need for a standard, a measuring stick by which we can distinguish between things which are harmful and those which are harmless, between right and wrong and good and evil. That is not easy to do, as you well know. This section reveals the realism of S …

Clean And Unclean Food
Moles, rats, mice, and all kinds of lizards are unclean (vv. 29-30). Anyone who touches their dead bodies or anything touched by their dead bodies becomes unclean until evening (v. 31). If something made of wood, cloth, or leather touches one of their dead bodies, it must be wash …