Portal:Bible/Featured chapter/Leviticus

God calls to Moses from the Tabernacle and tells him the laws of the sacrifices (korbanot). A burned offering ('olah) can be a bull, ram, male goat, turtle dove or pigeon, which the priest burns completely on wood on the altar.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses - children of Israel - Aaron and his sons

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Vayikra (parsha) - Tabernacle - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Korban - Bull - Kohen - Altar - Sheep - Goat - Fowl - Turtle Dove - Pigeon

A meal offering (minchah) is of choice flour with oil, from which priest will remove a token portion to burn on the altar, and the remainder the priests can eat. Meal offerings cannot contain leaven or honey, and are to be seasoned with salt. Meal offerings of first fruits are new ears parched with fire or grits of the fresh grain.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Aaron and his sons

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Vayikra (parsha) - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Korban - Flour - Oil - Frankincense - Kohen - Altar - Unleavened bread - Honey - Salt in the Bible - Corn

Sacrifices of well-being (shelamim) can be male or a female cattle, sheep, or goats, from which the priest will dash the blood on the sides of the altar and burn the fat around the entrails, the kidneys, and the protuberance on the liver on the altar.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Aaron and his sons

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Vayikra (parsha) - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Korban - Tabernacle - Kohen - Altar - Cattle - Lamb - Goat

Sin offerings (chattat) for unwitting sin by the High Priest or the community requires sacrificing a bull, sprinkling its blood in the Tabernacle, burning on the altar the fat around the entrails, the kidneys, and the protuberance on the liver, and burning the rest of the bull on an ash heap outside the camp. Guilt offerings for unwitting sin by a chieftain requires sacrificing a male goat, putting some of its blood on the horns of the altar, and burning its fat. Guilt offerings for unwitting sin by a lay person requires sacrificing a female goat, putting some of its blood on the horns of the altar, and burning its fat.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses - Children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Vayikra (parsha) - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Kohen - Bull - Tabernacle - Korban - Blood - Veil - Altar - Laying on of hands - Goat

Sin offerings are required for cases when a person is able to testify but does not give information, touches any unclean thing, touches human uncleanness, or utters an oath and forgets. Guilt offerings ('asham) are required when a person is unknowingly remiss about any sacred thing.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Vayikra (parsha) - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Cattle - Lamb - Goat - Kohen - Korban - Turtle Dove - Pigeon - Blood - Ephah - Flour - Oil - Frankincense

Guilt offerings are required when a person deals deceitfully or by robbery. The priests keep the fire burning, every morning feeding it wood. The meal offering (mincha) is presented before the altar, a handful burned, and the balance eaten by the priests. On the occasion of the High Priest’s anointment, the meal offering is prepared with oil on a griddle and entirely burned. The sin offering (chattat) is slaughtered at the same place as the burnt offering, and the priest who offers it eats it. If blood of the sin offering is brought into the Tent, the entire offering is burned.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses - Aaron and his sons

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Tzav - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - lying - deception - Robbery - Korban - Ram - Kohen - Linen - Vestments - Altar - Flour - Oil - Frankincense - Unleavened bread - Tabernacle - Ephah - Blood

The guilt offering is slaughtered at the same place as the burnt offering, the priest dashes its blood on the altar, burns its fat, tail, kidneys, and protuberance on the liver on the altar, eats the meat and keeps the skin. The priest offering it eats baked or grilled meal offerings, other meal offerings go to all the priests. The peace offering, if offered for thanksgiving with unleavened cakes or wafers with oil, goes to the priest dashing the blood. The peace offering is eaten the day it is offered. A freewill offering can be eaten for two days, and burned the third day. Meat that touches anything unclean is burned. Only a clean person eats peace offerings. Fat or blood is not eaten. One presents the peace offering himself, the fat is burned, the breast goes to the priests, and the right thigh to the priest offering the sacrifice.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses - Children of Israel - Aaron and his sons

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Tzav - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Korban - Blood - Altar - Kohen - Rump - Fat - Kidney - Liver - Holy of Holies - Unleavened bread - Unclean

God instructs Moses to assemble the whole community at the entrance of the Tabernacle for the priests’ ordination. Moses anoints and consecrates the Tabernacle and then Aaron and his sons. Moses leads forward a bull for a sin offering. Moses then brings forward a ram for a burnt offering and a second ram for ordination offering, as God had commanded through Moses.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses - Aaron and his sons

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Tzav - Vestments - Holy anointing oil - Cattle - Korban - Ram - Unleavened bread - Tabernacle - Tevilah - Ephod - Breastplate - Urim and Thummim - Mitre - Gold - Crown - Altar - Laver - Laying on of hands - Blood - Purification - Fat - Liver - Kidney - Consecration - Atonement

Moses instructs Aaron to assemble sacrifices (korbanot in Hebrew) to God, saying: “Today the Lord will appear to you." Aaron offers the korbanot and blesses the people. Moses and Aaron then go inside the Tabernacle, and when they come out, they bless the people again. The Presence of the Lord appears and consumes the korbanot. The people shout and fall on their faces.

PEOPLE: Moses - Aaron and his sons - יהוה‎ YHVH - Children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Shemini - Cattle - Domestic sheep - Korban - Goat - Tabernacle - Hod (Hebrew) - Glory (religion) - Atonement - Blood - Fat - Kidney - Liver

Nadab and Abihu offer strange fire, which God has not commanded, and God sends fire to consume them. Moses calls Mishael and Elzaphan to carry the bodies outside the camp. God tells Aaron that he and his sons must not drink wine or other intoxicants when they enter the Tabernacle. Moses becomes angry with Eleazar and Ithamar because the offering was not eaten. Aaron answered Moses: "Had I eaten sin offering today, would the Lord have approved?" And when Moses hears this, he approves.

PEOPLE: Nadab - Abihu - יהוה YHVH - Moses - Aaron - Mishael - Elzaphan - Uzziel - Eleazar - Ithamar - Children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Shemini - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - incense - Tabernacle - Holy anointing oil - Wine - Unclean - Korban - Holy of Holies - Goat - Atonement in Judaism - Blood

God instructs Moses and Aaron in the dietary laws of kashrut saying: “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

PEOPLE: יהוה YHVH God - Moses - Aaron - Children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Shemini - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Unclean animals - Kashrut - Taboo food and drink

God tells Moses that when a woman bears a child, she is to be unclean and complete a period of purification. She is to bring a sin offering, and the priest is to offer it on her behalf.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses - Children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Tazria - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Circumcision - Korban - Lamb - Pigeon - Turtledove - Tabernacle - Kohen

God tells Moses and Aaron that when a person has a rash it is to be reported to the priest, who is to examine it to determine whether the person is clean or unclean. Similarly, when an affection occurs in clothing, it is to be shown to the priest. If unclean, it is to be burned, but if the affection disappears from the article upon washing, it is to be washed again and be clean.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses - Aaron

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Tazria - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Leprosy - Kohen - Wool - Linen

God tells Moses the ritual for cleansing one with a skin disease. God then tells Moses and Aaron the ritual for cleansing a house with an eruptive plague.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses - Aaron

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai - Canaan

RELATED ARTICLES: Metzora (parsha) - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Leprosy - Kohen - Korban - Tabernacle - Lamb - Unclean - Atonement in Judaism - Turtledove - Pigeon

God tells Moses and Aaron the ritual for cleansing a person with a genital discharge. A woman with a menstrual discharge is to remain impure seven days or as long as her discharge lasts. God tells Moses and Aaron to put the Israelites on guard against uncleanness, lest they die by defiling God’s Tabernacle.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses - Aaron - Children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Metzora (parsha) - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Unclean - Tevilah - Turtledove - Pigeon - Tabernacle - Kohen - Korban - Atonement in Judaism

After the death of Aaron’s sons, God tells Moses to tell Aaron the ritual of Yom Kippur. On the tenth day of the seventh month, the High Priest was to put on the linen vestments, purge the Tabernacle, and make atonement for the Israelites once a year.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses - Aaron - Children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Acharei - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Yom Kippur - Holy of Holies - Veil - Mercy seat - Ark of the Covenant - cloud - Korban - Cattle - Domestic sheep - Vestments - Mitre - Tevilah - Goat - Atonement in Judaism - Casting lots - Scapegoat - Azazel - Tabernacle - Censer - Incense - Blood - Laying on of hands - Kohen

God prohibits Israelites from offering sacrifices to devils, from consuming blood, or eating anything that has died or has been torn by beasts.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses - Aaron and his sons - Children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Acharei - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Holiness code - Cattle - Domestic sheep - Goat - Tabernacle - Korban - Kohen - Blood - Devil - Devil worship - Kashrut - Atonement in Judaism - Tevilah - Unclean

God prohibits any Israelite from uncovering the nakedness of his relatives and in-laws. Israelites are not to allow their children to be offered up to Molech. A man cannot lie with a man as with a woman. God prohibits bestiality. God explains that the Canaanites defile themselves by adopting these practices, and any who do any of these things will be cut off from their people.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH God - Moses - Children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Leviticus 18 - Acharei - 613 Mitzvot - Ancient Egypt - Canaan - nakedness - Incest - Unclean - Adultery - Molech - Homosexuality - Zoophilia

God tells Moses to tell the Israelites to be holy, for God is holy. God's instruction then enumerates how people can be holy.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH – Moses – children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Kedoshim – 613 mitzvot – Holiness Code – Holiness – Sabbath – Idolatry – Korban – Gleaning – Theft – Lie – Deafness – Blindness – Ethic of reciprocity – Slavery – Lashon hara – Gossip – Domestic sheep – Prostitution – Witchcraft

God tells Moses to instruct the Israelites of the penalties for transgressions. God enjoins the Israelites faithfully to observe all God’s laws, because the land’s former inhabitants did all these. God designates the Israelites as holy to God, for God is holy, setting the Israelites apart from other people.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH God - Moses - children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Kedoshim - 613 Mitzvot - Molech - Capital punishment - Witchcraft - Sacred - Adultery - Nudity - Homosexuality - Religion and homosexuality - Zoophilia - Incest - Promised Land - Unclean - Kashrut

God gives Moses laws for the priests concerning contact with the dead, growth of their hair and beards, marriage, and physical requirements.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH God - Moses - sons of Aaron - children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Emor - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Kohen - Korban - Virginity - Marriage - Prostitution - Divorce - Sacred - Tabernacle - Capital punishment - Holy anointing oil - Blindness - Dwarfism - Scurvy - Veil - Holy of Holies - Altar

God gives Moses laws for the priests concerning the offering and eating of sacrifices.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses - Aaron and his sons - children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Emor - 613 Mitzvot - Leprosy - Unclean - Slavery - Divorce - Korban - Cattle - Domestic sheep - Goat - Blindness - Scurvy

God tells Moses to instruct the Israelites to proclaim the sacred feasts of the Sabbath, Passover, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH God – Moses – Children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Emor – 613 mitzvot – Priestly Code – Sabbath – Passover – Unleavened bread – Korban Pesach – Harvest – Sheaf – Kohen – Korban – Domestic sheep – Wine – Corn – Shavuot – Goat – Gleaning – Rosh Hashanah – Shofar – Yom Kippur – Atonement in Judaism – Lulav – Etrog

God tells Moses to command the Israelites to bring olive oil to light the lamps, and to bake twelve loaves to be placed in the Tabernacle every Sabbath. A blasphemer is brought to Moses and God tells Moses to take the blasphemer outside the camp and stone him. God instructs that anyone who blasphemes God is to be put to death, anyone who commits murder is to be put to death, and anyone who maims another person is to pay proportionately.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH God - Moses - Children of Israel - Aaron and his sons - Shelomith - Dibri

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Emor - 613 mitzvot - Priestly Code - Menorah - Veil - Olive oil - Tabernacle - Flour - Frankincense - Sabbath - Covenant - Holy of Holies - Ancient Egypt - Blasphemy - Tribe of Dan - Laying on of hands - Stoning - Capital punishment - Murder - Eye for an eye - Law

God tells Moses that every seventh year is to be a sabbath year, and every fiftieth year one of jubilee. God gives Moses laws for the buying and selling of property and slaves.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH God - Moses - Children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Behar - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Promised Land - Shmita - Shofar - Jubilee (Biblical) - Levite - Usury - Slavery - Slavery and religion

God warns against idolatry. God promises that if the Israelites follow God's laws, God will bless Israel; but Israel will be cursed for disobedience.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH God – Children of Israel – Moses

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Behar – Bechukotai – 613 mitzvot – Idolatry – Sabbath – Tabernacle – Covenant – Malaria – Fever – Pride – Pestilence – Jacob – Isaac – Abraham

God tells Moses to instruct the Israelites in the payment of vows when anyone vows to offer God the value of a human being, an animal, a house, or other property.

PEOPLE: יהוה‎ YHVH - Moses - Children of Israel

PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai

RELATED ARTICLES: Bechukotai - 613 Mitzvot - Priestly Code - Vow - Shekel - Silver - Kohen - Homer (unit) - Omer (Bible) - Barley - Jubilee - Gerah - Cattle - Domestic sheep - Tithe