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Leviticus

Old Testament · translated from the Hebrew

The book of holiness: how Israel can live near YHWH, who is holy. It teaches the sacrifices, the priesthood, clean and unclean, the Day of Expiation and the feasts.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. 14
  15. 15
  16. 16
  17. 17
  18. 18
  19. 19
  20. 20
  21. 21
  22. 22
  23. 23
  24. 24
  25. 25
  26. 26
  27. 27

How it is laid out

  1. The sacrificeschapters 1–7
  2. The priestschapters 8–10
  3. Clean and uncleanchapters 11–15
  4. The Day of Expiationchapter 16
  5. Living in holinesschapters 17–27

Key verses

Who wrote it

Almost the whole book is presented as words of YHWH to Moses (“YHWH spoke to Moses…,” 1:1). Jewish and Christian tradition attributes its writing to Moses. Authorship is debated.

When it was written

Debated. If Moses wrote it, in the time of the exodus from Egypt, around the 15th or 13th century BC.

For whom, and in what situation

The priests, descendants of Aaron, and all the people of Israel, camped at Sinai beside the sanctuary they had just set up.

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