Regulations regarding offerings

Leviticus 1:1 - 7:38

Admittedly this is another of those sections that starts to get to be tedious reading.
A couple of things become evident though:

1. Worship under the law was a fairly serious and complicated business...this speaks to a level of mystery that is lost on most of us today. These aren't regulations for regulations sake, there is deeper meaning in the detail that is worthy of consideration (though not here) if only for the sake of understanding the gravity of who God is and how we relate to Him.

2. There is also some serious consideration for hygiene/health in these sections. Practical instruction on how and when certain foods are to be eaten for very practical health reasons.

3. The Levites are already seeing the results of Jacob's parting words in Genesis:
(Gen 49:7)"I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel."
This is why they receive food from portions of the sacrifices. We'll find out later too that they get no inheritance in the land...only towns and fields.

Imagine too what this traveling horde of folks must have looked like spread out across the landscape. More than 600,000 men...probably at LEAST another 3-400,000 women (If we want to be really conservative, based on modern numbers the women may have outnumbered the men.)...who knows how many children...AND, based on what we're reading here about the expectancy that most of them have flocks to choose from for sacrificial animals, most likely literally millions of animals!!!

No wonder Moses gets frustrated so often...this would be a logistical NIGHTMARE!!!