Leviticus Flashcards
Theme of Leviticus
Dedication/Holiness (God’s Instruction On Holy Living - cf. 20:22-26)
Description of Leviticus
How unholy people can dwell among a holy God
A nation in gestation in preparation for legislation
Outline
- The Way to God — Sacrifice (1–17)
– Laws of five sacrifices (1–7)
– Laws of priests (8–10)
– Laws of purity (11–15)
– Laws of national atonement (16–17) - The Walk with God — Sanctification (18–27)
– Laws for the PEOPLE (18–20)
– Laws for the PRIESTHOOD (21–22)
– Laws for PRAISE (23–24)
– Laws for the PROMISED LAND (25–26)
– Laws for vows/PROMISES (27)
Chapters 1–7
Five Sacrifices
1. Burnt (1)
2. Grain (2)
3. Peace (3)
4. Sin (4–5)
5. Guilt (6–7)
Chapter 8–9
Ordination of Aaron and his sons, Aaron’s offerings before YHWH
Chapter 10
Nadab and Abihu offer strange fire
Chapter 11
Clean and Unclean Animals
Chapter 12
Atonement for giving birth
Chapters 13–15
Statutes for leprosy, cleansing a leper, cleansing bodily discharges
Chapter 16
Day of Atonement
Chapter 17
Statues against eating blood
Chapter 18
Statutes on Nakedness and sexual immorality
Chapter 19
Holiness of God and various statutes
Chapter 20
Consecration for the purpose of taking the land, separation from the other peoples
Chapter 21–22
Statutes for the priests
Chapter 23
7 Feasts
Chapter 24
The Lamps and Bread before YHWH
Chapter 25
Sabbatical (7) and Jubilee (50) years, treatment of the land and sojourners
Chapter 26
Blessing for obedience, judgement for disobedience
Chapter 27
Holy to the Lord
Lev 17:11
‘For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.’
Lev 19:2
“Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘You shall be holy, for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
Lev 20:20–26
‘As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people. ‘Therefore, you shall set yourselves apart as holy and be holy, for I am Yahweh your God. ‘And you shall keep My statutes and do them; I am Yahweh who makes you holy.
Lev 26:40–46
‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also how they walked in hostility against Me—I also was walking in hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make up for their iniquity, then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. ‘For the land will be forsaken by them and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making up for their iniquity because they rejected My judgments and their soul loathed My statutes. ‘Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so loathe them as to bring an end to them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God. ‘But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’” These are the statutes and judgments and laws which Yahweh has given to be between Himself and the sons of Israel by the hand of Moses at Mount Sinai.
