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• Leviticus 13Bible

  Leviticus 13 sets out the regulations by which the priest examined diseases of the skin and of the hair of the head and beard, as well as spots appearing on garments and leather, and pronounced them clean or unclean.

• Leviticus 16Bible

  Leviticus 16 contains the regulations for the Day of Atonement, when the high priest Aaron enters the Most Holy Place once a year to make atonement for himself, for the people, and for the sanctuary. It describes the rite in which one of two goats is sent into the wilderness for Azazel.

• Leviticus 18Bible

  Leviticus 18 commands the people of Israel not to follow the customs of Egypt and Canaan. It contains laws prohibiting sexual relations with close relatives, adultery, offering children to Molech, same-sex intercourse, and bestiality.

• Leviticus 11Bible

  Leviticus 11 contains the dietary laws that distinguish creatures that may be eaten (clean) from those that may not (unclean), together with regulations on the uncleanness incurred by touching their carcasses. It closes with the words "ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy."

• Leviticus 20Bible

  Leviticus 20 prescribes penalties for Molech worship, turning to mediums and wizards, cursing one's parents, and forbidden sexual relations, and it commands Israel to be a holy people set apart to God.

• Leviticus 17Bible

  Leviticus 17 requires that animals used for sacrifice be slaughtered and offered at the tabernacle of the congregation, and it forbids the eating of blood because the life is in the blood.

• Leviticus 22Bible

  Leviticus 22 contains the purity regulations that priests must observe when eating the holy things (sacred objects and food dedicated to God), together with the requirement that offerings presented to God be without blemish.

• Leviticus 15Bible

  Leviticus 15 is a chapter of purity law addressing the uncleanness caused by bodily discharges and the procedures for cleansing. It sets out, in turn, regulations for a man's running issue, an emission of semen, a woman's menstruation, and a prolonged flow of blood.

• Leviticus 26Bible

  Leviticus 26 proclaims the blessings that will follow faithfulness to the covenant and the punishments that will come in escalating stages if it is broken. It also promises that, even after Israel has been scattered, God will remember the covenant He made with the patriarchs if the people confess their sin.

• Leviticus 21Bible

  Leviticus 21 sets out the holiness regulations that priests and the high priest must observe. It addresses funerals and mourning, marriage, and the sacrificial duties of priests with physical blemishes.

• Leviticus 24Bible

  Leviticus 24 contains regulations for the sanctuary lamps and for the bread set out every Sabbath (the showbread), followed by the execution of a man who blasphemed the name of the LORD and the law of retaliation expressed as "eye for eye, tooth for tooth."

• Leviticus 19Bible

  Leviticus 19 is a collection of ordinances, gathered under the command "Ye shall be holy," that address worship, relations with one's neighbor, protection of the poor and the stranger, and justice in judgment and commerce. The chapter contains the verse "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

• Leviticus 25Bible

  Leviticus 25 contains the regulations for the sabbatical year and the Year of Jubilee given at Mount Sinai. It commands that the land rest in the seventh year and that, in the fiftieth year, sold land be returned and fellow Israelites who had sold themselves be set free.

• Leviticus 23Bible

  Leviticus 23 sets out Israel's appointed feasts in order: the Sabbath, Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the day of the firstfruits sheaf, the feast held fifty days later, and the seventh-month observances of the blowing of trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

• Leviticus 27Bible

  Leviticus 27, the final chapter of Leviticus, sets out the valuation and redemption of persons, animals, houses, and fields vowed to the LORD, along with regulations on devoted things and the tithe.

• AzazelBible

  Azazel is a Hebrew word in the Day of Atonement regulations of Leviticus 16. It is connected with the goat that bears the people's sins and is sent away into the wilderness. Because its meaning is uncertain, it has been interpreted in several ways.

• Purification after ChildbirthBible

  Purification after childbirth is an Old Testament ordinance under which a woman who had given birth, after completing a prescribed period, brought offerings to the sanctuary to have her ritual purity restored. It is set out in Leviticus 12, and in Luke 2 Mary observes it.

• Feast of TrumpetsBible

  The Feast of Trumpets was an Old Testament festival observed on the first day of the seventh month of Israel's religious calendar. It was marked by the blowing of trumpets and a holy convocation, as prescribed in Leviticus 23 and Numbers 29.

• Strange FireBible

  Strange fire is an expression from the incident in Leviticus 10 in which Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, died after offering incense in a manner God had not commanded. The underlying Hebrew phrase means "strange" or "foreign" fire.

• DibriPeople

  Dibri is a man of the tribe of Dan who is named once in the Old Testament, in the book of Leviticus. His daughter Shelomith was the mother of the man who blasphemed the name of God in the wilderness and was stoned to death.