Leviticus 12 dealt with specifically female issues of purity, now Leviticus 15 deals primarily with male issues of purity after a “discharge”. Two thoughts come to mind after reading this chapter: I am glad we do not have to follow all of these laws anymore. Whoever wrote some of these laws must have had obsessive-compulsive disorder. Lawrence Boadt offers a helpful summary of Leviticus 16…. The taboos in chapters 11-15 are followed by the liturgy for the day of atonement in chapter 16. This rite is the climax of the first part of Leviticus. It is reserved to the high priest to place all the sins of Israel on the head of a goat once a year and drive the goat into the desert to die. It symbolizes God’s forgiving nature which always wipes the slate clean for his people. This is the origin of the idea of a “scapegoat.” [1] Boadt also gives a helpful summary of the section of Leviticus that begins with chapter 17…. The last part of Leviticus cons...