Leviticus Bible Nuggets

Leviticus Highlights

 

·       Chapter 1, instructions and procedures for burnt offerings are given to Moses. The entire sacrifice is to be burned upon the altar.  The blood is to be poured out on and around the altar. 

 

·  Chapter 2, instructions and procedures for Meat offerings are given. A portion is to be burned upon the Altar, while the remainder is for Aaron and his sons.

 

·  Chapter 3, instructions and procedure for peace offerings are given.

 

·  Chapter 4, instructions for sin offering are given. The sacrifice is slain at the door of the tabernacle. The blood is poured out at the altar. The fat is burned upon the altar. The body of the sacrifice is burned without (outside) the camp.

 

·   Chapters 5 and 6 covers the rules and regulations for trespass offerings. The procedure to be followed by Aaron and his sons are also given

·  Chapter 7, procedures  for various offerings are continued, more in detail. The children of Israel are forbidden to eat any fat or blood from the sacrifices. Portions out of the offerings for Aaron and his sons are established.  

·  Chapter 8, God instructs Moses to take Aaron and his sons and bring them unto the door of the Tabernacle before all the congregation of Israel. He dresses them with the garments made for them, and anoints them before the Lord. Sacrifices were made according to the procedures given.  

·  Chapter 9, offerings are made for the people and the priest according to the rules given by God.

·  Chapter 10, Nadab and Abihu, sons of Aaron, offered up strange fire before the Lord which he commanded them not. Fire went out from the lord and devoured them, and they died. The children of Israel are commanded to “put difference between Holy and Unholy, and between Unclean and Clean”. 

·   Chapter 11, the law of beast and fowl , creatures in the waters and them that creepeth upon the earth are given. They were told to make a difference between the clean and unclean, and between the beast that may be eaten and those that may not.

·   Chapter 12.  Laws are given concerning cleansing and purification of a woman after she has given birth to a male or a female child.  

·   Chapter 13, the law concerning leprosy is given. The determination of the plague in a person is made by the priest. If so found, that individual is put out of the camp for life.  

·  Chapter 14 covers the ceremonial law of the Leper in the day of his cleansing. 

·   Chapter 15, the procedures to follow for a man with a discharge or an emission of semen that makes him unclean, and for a woman in her menstrual period are given. Laws concerning any man or woman with a discharge and also a man who sleeps with a woman who is unclean are given.   

·  Chapter 16, Once a year atonement is to be made by the priest, for all the sins of the People of Israel.  He puts on the sacred linen garments, purges the Holy of Holies, the Tabernacle and the Altar. He makes atonement for himself and all the congregation. 

·  Chapter 17, the children of Israel are commanded that whenever an OX, Lamb, or Goat is killed, It is to be brought to the door of the tabernacle to offer an offering to the Lord. If this is not done, blood shall be imputed to that man, who will be cut off from his people. The same applies to any person that eateth blood. Life of the flesh is in the blood, and it is the blood that maketh atonement for your souls. When a hunter catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he is commanded to pour out the blood thereof and cover it with dust.

·  Chapter 18, the Israelites are forbidden to do after the abominations (doings) of the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan. These included; “thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind, for it is abomination. None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness.  

·   Chapters 19 and 20, the children of Israel are commanded, “Ye shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am Holy. Various laws for daily living are given, including making provisions for the poor and the stranger. They are also forbidden to make any cutting in their flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon themselves. They are also forbidden to give any of their seed (children) to Molech.  

·  Chapter 21, GOD spoke to Moses saying, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron. Tell them, A priest must not ritually contaminate himself by touching the dead, except for close relatives: mother, father, son, daughter, brother, or an unmarried sister who is dependent on him since she has no husband; for these he may make himself  ritually unclean,  but he must not contaminate himself with the dead who are only related to him by marriage and thus profane himself. "Priests must not shave their heads or trim their beards or gash their bodies. They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because their job is to present the gifts of GOD, the food of their God, they are to be holy. 

·   Chapter 22,  GOD spoke to Moses saying,  "Tell Aaron and his sons to treat the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate to me with reverence so they won't desecrate my holy name. I am GOD. "Tell them, From now on, if any of your descendants approaches in a state of ritual uncleanness the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate to GOD, he will be cut off from my presence. I am GOD.  "The priests must observe my instructions lest they become guilty and die by treating the offerings with irreverence. I am GOD who makes them holy. 

·   Chapter 23, GOD instructed  Moses to tell the People of Israel of the appointed feasts of GOD which are to be decreed as sacred assemblies.  "These appointed feasts are for presenting Fire-Gifts to GOD: the Whole-Burnt-Offerings, Grain-Offerings, sacrifices, and Drink-Offerings assigned to each day. These are in addition to offerings for GOD's Sabbaths and also in addition to other gifts connected with whatever you have vowed and all the Freewill-Offerings you give to GOD.  Moses posted the calendar for the annual appointed feasts which Israel was to celebrate. 

·   Chapter 24, God instructs Moses to command the children of Israel to bring pure olive oil to case the lamps to burn continually, without the Vail of the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation.  The son of an Israelitist woman blasphemed the name of the Lord and cursed.  Then GOD spoke to Moses saying; "Take the blasphemer outside the camp. Have all those who heard him place their hands on his head; then have the entire congregation stone him. Anyone who blasphemes the Name of GOD must be put to death. The entire congregation must stone him.

 

·   Chapter 25,  GOD spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai,  "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them: When you enter the land which I am going to give you, the land will observe a Sabbath to GOD.
 Sow your fields, prune your vineyards, and take in your harvests for six years.  But the seventh year the land will take a Sabbath of complete and total rest, a Sabbath to GOD; you will not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. Sanctify the fiftieth year; make it a holy year. Proclaim freedom all over the land to everyone who lives in it, a year of Jubilee for you: Each person will go back to his family's property and reunite with his extended family.   

·   Chapter 26, various decrees, laws, and instructions  that GOD established between himself and the People of Israel are given to Moses in Mount Sinai. They were told "If you live by my decrees and obediently keep my commandments,   I'll give you my full attention: I'll make sure you prosper, make sure you grow in numbers. "But if you refuse to obey me and won't observe my commandments,  I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your emenies: they that hate you shall reign over you. 

·       Chapter 27, the laws concerning vows, dedication, and redemption are given. Laws for tithe of the land and herd are also given.