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Leviticus
The Offerings (Chapters 1-7)
- Burnt Offerings (Chapter 1)
- Qualified burnt offerings (vss 1-2)
- Herds (vss 3-9)
- Flocks (vss 10-13)
- Fowls (vss 14-17)
- Meat Offerings (Chapter 2)
- Priests treatment of meat/bread offerings (vss 1-3)
- Oven-baked bread (vs 4)
- Pan baked bread (vss 5-6)
- Fried bread (vss 7-11)
- First-fruit corn offerings (vss 12-16)
- Peace Offerings (Chapter 3)
- Qualified peace offerings (vss 1-5)
- Sheep offering (vss 6-11)
- Goat offering (vss 12-17)
- Sin offerings (Chapters 4-5)
- Sinning ignorantly (vss 1-2)
- Priests sin (vss 3-12)
- Congregational sin (vss 13-21)
- Ruler sin (vss 22-26)
- Common people sin (vss 27-35)
- Sinning consciously (5:1-13)
- Lamb for the trespass offering, or…
- Two turtledoves or pigeons for the trespass, or…
- Ephah of flour – handful is burnt on the altar as sin offering, the remainder is kept by the priests as a meal offering.
- Sinning ignorantly (vss 1-2)
- Trespass offering (Chapter 5:14 – 6:7)
- Trespass ignorantly (vss 14-19)
- Trespass consciously (6:1-7)
- Priests administration of the offerings and consecrated items (6:8 – 7:38)
- Administration of the burnt offering (6:8-13)
- Administration of the meat offering (6:14-18)
- Administration of the consecration of priests (6:19-23)
- Administration of the sin offering (6:24-30)
- Administration of the trespass offering (7:1-6)
- Administration of the sin offering (7:7-8)
- Administration of the meat offering (7:9-10)
- Administration of the peace offering (7:11-21)
- Portions to be eaten and portions to be burned, not eaten (7:22-38)
The Consecrations (Chapters 8-15)
- Consecration of the Priests (Chapters 8-10)
- Aaron and sons ordained (Ch.8)
- Aaron offers sacrifices (Ch.9)
- Opposition from Nadab and Abihu (Chapter 10:1-7)
- Rules for priests (Chapter 10:8-20) – Contention about Eleazar and Ithamar not eating the goat of the sin offering. Moses gets on to them. Aaron explains the situation because Nadab and Abihu had been killed for offering strange fire they didn’t feel it was right to eat it. Moses agrees. It shows that the priests consuming the offering to bear the iniquity of the people.
- Clean and unclean animals (Chapter 11)
- Clean & Unclean beasts (11:1-8)
- Clean & Unclean fish (11:9-12)
- Clean & Unclean birds (11:13-19)
- Clean & Unclean flying creeping insects (11:20-23)
- Cleaning death off of things (Notice in all hygiene codes there is an understanding of direct contact transmission and secondary contact transmission)
- Hygiene from touching dead animals (11:24-26)
- Animals with paws are unclean (11:27-28)
- Other unclean creeping things (11:29-31)
- Washing vessels that dead animals touched (11:32)
- Destroy earthen vessels dead animals touched (11:33)
- Food or drink items in these vessels are unclean (11:34)
- Ovens and counter-tops become unclean (11:35)
- Waters become unclean (11:36)
- Seed that contacts death immediately or by contaminated water (11:37-38)
- Clean beast that dies by itself is unclean (11:39)
- Don’t make yourself abominable with creeping things (11:41-43)
- Childbirth instructions (Chapter 12)
- Birth of a son (12:1-4)
- Birth of a daughter (12:5)
- Offering to accompany childbirth (12:6-8)
- Leprosy (Chapters 13-14)
- Diagnosing leprosy (13)
- Cleansing leprosy (14)
- Hygiene regarding bodily fluids (Chapter 15)
- Dysentery (15:1-15)
- Semen (15:16-18)
- Menstruation (15:19-30)
- What comes out of the body is unclean (15:31-33)
The Redemptions (Chapters 16-27)
- The Day of Atonement (Chapter 16)
- Sprinkling blood (16:1-19)
- Scapegoat (16:20-28)
- Explanation of the day of atonement (16:29-34)
- Instructions concerning the offering of blood (Chapter 17)
- Cursed sexual practices of the heathen (Chapter 18)
- Forbidden intimacy with close kin (18:6-18)
- No intimacy with an unclean woman (18:19)
- Forbidden intimacy with neighbor’s wife (18:20)
- Don’t sacrifice your children (18:21)
- No homosexuality (18:22)
- No bestiality (18:23)
- The land will not tolerate these perversions (18:24-30)
- 24 Rules for living (Chapter 19)
- Capital punishment and crimes for which there is no sacrifice of the previous mentioned practices (Chapter 20)
- Priestly instructions (Chapters 21-22)
- Priests touching the dead (21:1-4)
- Priests are forbidden to cut their hair or cut themselves for the dead (21:5-6)
- Priests marriage instructions (21:7-8)
- Priests’ daughters (21:9)
- High priest instructions (21:10-12)
- High priest will marry a virgin (21:13-15)
- High priest cannot have any defects (21:16-24)
- 13 Regulations on how to partake of the holy things (22:1-16)
- Unacceptable offerings and restatement of some acceptable things (22:17-33)
- Holidays for the nation (Chapter 23)
- Seventh-day Sabbath (23:1-3)
- Passover (23:4-9)
- First-fruits (23:10-15)
- Pentecost (23:16-22)
- Trumpets (23:23-25)
- Atonement (23:26-32)
- Tabernacles (23:33-44)
- Tabernacle furniture administration (Chapter 24:1-9)
- Lamp-stand (24:1-4)
- Shew bread (24:5-9)
- Blasphemy gets capital punishment whether Israelite or stranger (Chapter 24:10-23)
- Sabbaths (Chapters 25-26)
- Sabbath year (25:1-7)
- Seven Sabbath Years known as Jubilee (25:8-22)
- Redemption of land (25:23-38)
- Redemption of people (25:39-55)
- Blessing and Cursing (26)
- Redemption laws for dedication (Chapter 27)
- 26 purchase prices
Leviticus is the most boring book in the Bible. It’s full of laws and regulating details of all aspects of Hebrew life. It gives instructions to the priests and to the people. There are between 121 and 140 individual statues depending how you count them.
Why did God want to regulate so much of their lives?
- Did God need Israel to do these things to approach Him? No.
- Moses communed with God face to face so-to-speak. He didn’t have to go through any tabernacle. So why all the micromanagement?
- There are two reasons for this.
- First, to give some physical representation to the spiritual truths that would eventually come to fruition in Jesus Christ. (Sacrifices, consuming the offerings as part of the sanctification process in Leviticus 10)
- Second, the details were not for God. He didn’t need them. Neither did the prophets before. The management of life was for the people. That in everything they did there was a constant reminder of who their heavenly king was. Paul picked this up in Colossians 3:23.
