[annalex]

Leviticus 5:17-19 [...] probably just another of those Jewish traditions

Yes, more or less, it is. The Old Testament Law was absent grace and was given the Jews in order to give them simple rules easy to follow. Christianity arrives to a deeper understanding of sin as willful defiance of God, not an ignorant mistake. Note, also that the Hebrew Law is very lenient in this case.

[Elsie]

...was given the Jews in order to give them simple rules easy to follow.

Poorly catechized I see.

Or maybe WELL catechized!!!

At least NON-biblical reasoning is sure in evidence!!

---

Galatians 3:19

Douay-Rheims Bible

Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come, to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.