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feat(lenses): Leviticus 1-10 lens content, batch 1 of Pentateuch-rest pilot (#820, #1782) #1801

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68 changes: 68 additions & 0 deletions content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev1.json
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"lenses": [
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"lens_id": "typological",
"guidance": "The 'olah goes up entirely in smoke (vv 6-9, 12-13) — wholly given is the type's signature. The pattern prefigures Christ offering himself wholly to God (Heb 10:5-10), no portion withheld for the offerer.",
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"guidance": "vv 3 and 10 require a male without blemish — Hebrew tamim, complete. Heb 9:14 takes that requirement up: Christ offered himself without blemish to God. The Sinai standard finds its perfection in Jesus.",
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"lens_id": "grammatical",
"guidance": "Hebrew 'olah (vv 3, 6, 9) is built on the verb 'alah, to go up. The offering is itself a going-up — its smoke rises to God. The Hebrew names what the eye sees: ascent as worship.",
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"guidance": "Three parallel descents from herd (vv 3-9), flock (vv 10-13), and bird (vv 14-17). The structure makes one point: the offering varies by means; the standard does not. Worship has tiers but no class.",
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{
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{
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"guidance": "v 1's esh zarah — strange or foreign fire — uses the adjective zar, what is alien, illegitimate. The same root appears at Num 3:4 and 26:61. The Hebrew warning travels: unauthorized worship, however well-meant, is foreign.",
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"guidance": "The chapter pivots on vv 1-3: action, judgment, divine speech. The literary structure makes the speech of v 3 the chapter's center — not the death of the priests, but the meaning of holiness God assigns to it.",
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"lens_id": "devotional",
"guidance": "v 3's 'those who come near me must regard me as holy' addresses today's worshipper too. To respond rightly is to obey God's pattern of approach, not to invent one. Reverent faith trusts the Word over the gut.",
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"lens_id": "canonical",
"guidance": "v 3's principle — among those who approach me I will be sanctified — echoes throughout Scripture as a sober refrain: Acts 5:1-11 (Ananias and Sapphira), 1 Cor 11:30 (the Lord's table), Heb 12:28-29 (acceptable worship).",
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{
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"guidance": "Hebrew minchah (v 1) is tribute, gift — used elsewhere for what Cain brought (Gen 4) and what kings bring vassal-style. The original audience would hear it as a fitting protocol: subject brings tribute to king.",
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"lens_id": "typological",
"guidance": "vv 11-13 — no leaven, no honey, but salt of the covenant. Leaven anticipates Christ's warning against the leaven of the Pharisees (Mt 16:6); covenant-salt anticipates Mk 9:50's saltiness imperative.",
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"guidance": "v 14's firstfruits — first and best, not the leftover. To respond as Israel did is to give God the head of the increase, not the tail. To trust the Giver of the harvest with the first sheaf is itself a worship-act today.",
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"guidance": "Unlike olah and chattat, the shelamim ends in a meal (vv 1-5, 6-11): worshipper, priest, and God all share. The meal-pattern foreshadows the Lord's table — fellowship around a sacrifice, not around a feeling.",
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"guidance": "The shelamim's shared-meal pattern echoes throughout Scripture — Ex 24:11 (elders eating before God), 1 Kgs 8:62-66 (temple-dedication peace offerings), and Lk 22:17-20 (the cup of the new covenant).",
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"guidance": "Hebrew shelamim is from shalom — peace, wholeness. The peace offering names what Christ achieves: 'since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God' (Rom 5:1). Sinai fellowship made permanent.",
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"guidance": "Hebrew chattat (vv 3, 14, 23, 28) carries both 'sin' and 'sin offering' — the same word names the problem and the remedy. The lexical doubling preaches: the offering takes the sinner's name on itself.",
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"guidance": "Blood applied to the horns of the altar (vv 7, 18, 25, 30, 34) — the pattern is contact-atonement: where the worshipper meets God, the blood meets first. Fulfilled at the cross where Christ's blood opens approach.",
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"guidance": "vv 13-21 cover unintentional sin even of the whole congregation — none too small, none too corporate. 1 Jn 2:2 lifts that scope to its limit: Jesus is 'the propitiation… for the sins of the whole world.'",
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"guidance": "vv 2, 13, 22, 27 — the unintentional sin still requires a sacrifice. Today the pattern teaches: ignorance is not innocence; we draw near in confession even of what we did not see at the time.",
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{
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"guidance": "Hebrew asham (vv 6, 7, 15) means guilt — but the same word is the offering and the price paid. Isa 53:10 picks up this exact word for the Servant: his soul makes asham. The Hebrew sets the trajectory.",
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"lens_id": "redemptive",
"guidance": "vv 14-19 require restitution plus a fifth (v 16) — covenant restoration costs more than the wrong, on purpose. The redemptive arc adds grace to justice: not breaking even, but more given back than was taken.",
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"guidance": "The asham pattern — v 15's reparation 'for the wrong he has done' — foreshadows the Servant's substitutionary asham of Isa 53:10-11. Guilt-payment plus reparation, both fulfilled in Christ's offering.",
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"guidance": "The chapter shifts audience as a structural pivot: vv 1-7 still address the people, then vv 8-30 turn to Aaron and his sons (v 9). The form changes who is hearing — and therefore who must perform the procedures.",
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"guidance": "vv 12-13 — the fire on the altar shall be kept burning, it shall not go out. The pattern reads as a worship-discipline today: tend the fire of devotion before it dies. Continuity in obedience is itself an offering.",
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}
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