The People of God of the First Covenant

“Sacraments”

Water Rituals

• Leviticus 14:8; 15:1-21; 11:1-39

• 1 Kings 7:23-26

• Numbers 5:11-31

• Numbers 19:1-22; 31:21-24

Rituals of Initiation

• Genesis 17:9-27; Joshua 5:2-7; Leviticus 12:1-5; cf. Exodus 12:4, 44-48

• Genesis 17:2; Leviticus 12:3

• Genesis 17:5

• Genesis 34:14-24

Ritual Meals

• Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14• Deuteronomy 12:3; Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 17:14• Leviticus 7:11-14• Genesis 26:28-30; 31:43-54• Exodus 24:9-11; cf. Deuteronomy 12:6-7; 14:22-

26• Exodus 12; Numbers 28:16-25; Deuteronomy

16:1-8

Ritual Sacrifices

• Leviticus 1; Numbers 28-29; Leviticus 12:6, 8; 14:19, 22; 15:15; 30; 16:24

• Leviticus 3; 7:31-34, 15; 19:6-8– Leviticus 7:11-18 [cf. Psalm 107; 2 Samuel 15:7-8]

– Exodus 29: 19-28, 31-34; Leviticus 8:22-29, 31-32

• Leviticus 4 – 5:13• Leviticus 5:14-6:7• Leviticus 2

Atonement Rituals

• See above:– Holocaust as atonement ritual– Purification (“sin”) offering as atonement ritual– Guilt offering as atonement ritual

Healing Rituals

• Psalms 32, 38, 88, 91

• Isaiah 38

• Prayer of Hezekiah

Funeral Rituals

• Deuteronomy 21:23; 1 Kings 14:10-14; 2 Kings 9:34-37; 2 Samuel 21:10-14

• Genesis 46:4• 2 Samuel 3:31-32; Job 21:33; Ecclesiastes

12:5; Jeremiah 9:17; Amos 5:16• Leviticus 19:27-28; Deuteronomy 14:1• 1 Samuel 28:14; Isaiah 14:11; Ezechiel

32:27

Marriage Rituals

• Genesis 2:21-24; 29:15-30; 16:1-2: Deuteronomy 21:15

• Genesis 24:4; 28:2; 34:12; Exodus 22:16

• Song of Songs 3:11 (cf. Isaiah 61:10); 1 Maccabees 9:37-39; Isaiah 61:10; Genesis 29:23-25; Song of Songs 4:1

• Jeremiah 16:9; Judges 14:12

Ordination Rituals

• See: conditions for admission for each of the structural elements of the People of God of the First Covenant