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• Leviticus 10

  Leviticus 10 recounts the deaths of Nadab and Abihu, sons of Aaron, who offered incense with "strange fire" that the LORD had not commanded. It then gives a prohibition against priests drinking wine or strong drink and regulations for eating the offerings.

• Leviticus 3

  Leviticus 3 sets out the procedure for the peace offering, presented from the herd or the flock (cattle, sheep, or goats). It declares that all the fat belongs to the LORD and closes with a perpetual statute forbidding the eating of fat and blood.

• Leviticus 9

  Leviticus 9 records how, on the eighth day, after the seven days of priestly ordination were completed, Aaron offered sacrifices for the first time and blessed the people, whereupon the glory of the LORD appeared and fire came out and consumed the offerings.

• Leviticus 14

  Leviticus 14 sets out the ritual for cleansing a person healed of leprosy (a serious skin disease) and restoring that person to the community, together with the regulations for inspecting and dealing with a plague that appears in a house.

• Leviticus 7

  Leviticus 7 sets out the regulations for the guilt offering and the peace offering, the portions given to the priests, and the command not to eat fat or blood. It concludes the priestly sacrificial regulations that begin in chapter 6.

• Leviticus 13

  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 16

  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 18

  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 11

  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 20

  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 17

  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 22

  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 15

  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 26

  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 21

  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 24

  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 19

  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 25

  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 23

  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 27

  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.