Leviticus 11:44(NKJV)
For I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you
Shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that
creeps on the earth.
Leviticus 11:45(NKJV)
For I am the LORD Who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You
shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
- Author
- Moses
- Date written
- About 1400 B.C. (1445 B.C.)
- Theme
- Holiness (A form of the word holy is found 78 times within the book of Leviticus)
- Priesthood
- Purpose
- The book of Leviticus is a handbook for the priests and Levites outlining their duties in worship, and a guidebook of holy living for the Hebrews. The Hebrew meaning of Leviticus is “And He Called.” The Greek meaning is “Matters Pertaining to the Levites.”
- Content
- Offerings: Leviticus 1:1-7:38
- Leviticus 1:2(NKJV) “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When any one of you brings an offering to the LORD, you shall bring your offering of the livestock-of the herd and of the flock.
- Priesthood: Leviticus 8:1-10:20
- Leviticus 8:2(NKJV) Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, a bull as the sin offering, two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;
- Guidelines for Holy Living: Leviticus 11:1-15:33
- Leviticus 11:2(NKJV) “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, “These are the animals which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth:
- Foods, Childbirth, Leprosy, and Bodily Discharges
- The Day of Atonement: Leviticus 16:1-34
- Leviticus 16:2(NKJV) and the LORD said to Moses: “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat, which is on the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
- Leviticus 16:3(NKJV) Thus Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering.
- Practical Holiness: Leviticus 17:1-22:33
- Eating (do not eat blood)
- Unlawful Sexual Relations
- Punishments for Sin
- The Sabbath, Feasts, and Seasons: Leviticus 23:1-25:55
- Leviticus 23:44(NKJV) So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
- Offerings: Leviticus 1:1-7:38
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The Three |
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Feast of Unleavened |
Celebration |
March – April |
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Feasts of |
50 days after |
May – June |
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Feast of |
Celebration |
September- October |
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- The Year of Jubilee: Leviticus 25:8-17
- Blessings and Retribution: Leviticus 26:1-27:34
- Leviticus 26:3-4 (NKJV) If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, then I will give you rain in its season. the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- The Year of Jubilee: Leviticus 25:8-17
- Christ in Leviticus
- Jesus as the Spotless Sacrifice
- 1 Peter 1:19(NKJV) but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
- Jesus as our High Priest
- Jesus as our Jubilee
- Jesus as the Spotless Sacrifice
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