Leviticus is a book focused on laws and rituals for the Israelites, emphasizing holiness and proper worship. It includes detailed instructions on offerings, dietary laws, and moral conduct. Through these guidelines, the book underscores the importance of purity, obedience, and reverence towards God. It teaches about the significance of atonement and the role of the priesthood in maintaining a relationship between God and His people, highlighting a life dedicated to spiritual and communal integrity.
1. And the LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,2. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, If any man of you bring an offering to the LORD, you shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.3. If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
1. And when any will offer a meat offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense thereon:2. And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests: and he shall take out of there his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it on the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet smell to the LORD:3. And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire. ¶
1. And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.2. And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood on the altar round about.3. And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2. Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not to be done, and shall do against any of them:3. If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bullock without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering.
1. And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he has seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.2. Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcass of an unclean beast, or a carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.3. Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled with, and it be hid from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2. If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie to his neighbor in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or has deceived his neighbor;3. Or have found that which was lost, and lies concerning it, and swears falsely; in any of all these that a man does, sinning therein:
1. Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.2. In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about on the altar.3. And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covers the inwards,
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2. Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;3. And gather you all the congregation together to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
1. And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;2. And he said to Aaron, Take you a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.3. And to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, Take you a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
1. And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.2. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.3. Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that the LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,2. Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which you shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.3. Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven footed, and chews the cud, among the beasts, that shall you eat.
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2. Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.3. And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,2. When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests:3. And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2. This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest:3. And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,2. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When any man has a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.3. And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;2. And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the mercy seat, which is on the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.3. Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2. Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them; This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, saying,3. What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that kills it out of the camp,
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I am the LORD your God.3. After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein you dwelled, shall you not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, where I bring you, shall you not do: neither shall you walk in their ordinances.
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2. Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy. ¶3. You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God. ¶
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2. Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, Whoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.3. And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
1. And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and say to them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:2. But for his kin, that is near to him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother.3. And for his sister a virgin, that is near to him, which has had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2. Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow to me: I am the LORD.3. Say to them, Whoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goes to the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow to the LORD, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.3. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; you shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. ¶
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2. Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.3. Without the veil of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening to the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,2. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to the LORD.3. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
1. You shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither raise you up a standing image, neither shall you set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.2. You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. ¶3. If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by your estimation.3. And your estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even your estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
