Leviticus has lots of rules!

Aside from many sacrifices Leviticus has lots of rules. Some of them I really don't understand and others I think I know what they are saying but they don't make much sense to me. Like why a woman is unclean 2x as long when she gives birth to a girl vs a boy. It also helped me to understand some Jewish traditions better but I didn't see anything that explained why their Sabbath is on Saturday. Everything says the 7th day. It seems like people arbitrarily decided when the first day of the week is so the 7th day being Saturday seems arbitrary. I did some looking up on the internet and it says that Jesus rose from the tomb the day after the Sabbath which is why Christians celebrate on Sunday - the first day of the week. I don't know if that is accurate. Well I know that is the day they found the rock moved, but I am not far enough into the NT to know if they started meeting on Sunday after the Lord was resurrected. I don't personally think they exact day is as important as some people make it out to be (like Jews and Christians fighting over who is right) as long as you keep your Sabbath day holy.

And the reason Leviticus has so may rules seems to be because the people were unable to govern themselves and kind of liked to bend the rules if they were vague or flat out make things up - like worshiping the golden calf. I am glad that we now have more principles and guidelines and are for the most part left to govern ourselves. Although in some respects I see much more defined guidelines, like for the strength of youth being more specific on what defines chastity etc. Which is sad because that implies we aren't doing so well...