It is moral (a flat-rated tithe is referred to in the Bible's Leviticus) and populist.

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He talks in detail about his faith, and in speeches can cite the books of Micah and Isaiah, or how Leviticus and Deuteronomy cannot be applied letter-for-letter to the modern world.

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Another piece is a clay vessel in the form of a piglet that was made nearly 3, 000 years before the Old Testament book of Leviticus made the pig anathema in most of the Middle East.

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