OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

1

• The burnt offering (1-17)

2

• The grain offering (1-16)

3

• The communion offering (1-17)

  • Do not eat fat or blood (17)

4

• The sin offering (1-35)

5

• Specific sins and required offerings (1-6)

  • Reporting sins of others (1)

• Alternative offerings for the poor (7-13)

• The guilt offering for unintentional sins (14-19)

6

• More on the guilt offering (1-7)

• Instructions on offerings (8-30)

  • The burnt offering (8-13)

  • The grain offering (14-23)

  • The sin offering (24-30)

7

• Instructions on offerings (1-21)

  • The guilt offering (1-10)

  • The communion offering (11-21)

• Eating fat or blood forbidden (22-27)

• The priestly share (28-36)

• Conclusion on offerings (37, 38)

8

• Installation of the Aaronic priesthood (1-36)

9

• Aaron makes installation offerings (1-24)

10

• Fire from Jehovah kills Nadab and Abihu (1-7)

• Regulations for priests regarding drinking and eating (8-20)

11

• Clean and unclean animals (1-47)

12

• Purification after childbirth (1-8)

13

• Regulations about leprosy (1-46)

• Leprosy on clothing (47-59)

14

• Cleansing from leprosy (1-32)

• Cleansing of infected houses (33-57)

15

• Unclean genital discharges (1-33)

16

• The Day of Atonement (1-34)

17

• The tabernacle, the place for sacrifices (1-9)

• Eating of blood forbidden (10-14)

• Regulations on animals found dead (15, 16)

18

• Unlawful sexual relations (1-30)

  • Do not imitate the Canaanites (3)

  • Various incestuous relations (6-18)

  • During menstruation (19)

  • Homosexual acts (22)

  • Bestiality (23)

  • ‘Stay clean, or the land will vomit you out’ (24-30)

19

• Various laws on holiness (1-37)

  • Proper harvesting (9, 10)

  • Consideration for the deaf and the blind (14)

  • Slander (16)

  • Do not hold a grudge (18)

  • Magic and spiritism forbidden (26, 31)

  • Tattoos forbidden (28)

  • Respect for the elderly (32)

  • Treatment of foreigners (33, 34)

20

• Worship of Molech; spiritism (1-6)

• Be holy and respect parents (7-9)

• Death for sex offenders (10-21)

• Be holy to stay in the land (22-26)

• Spiritists to be put to death (27)

21

• Priests to be holy and undefiled (1-9)

• High priest not to defile himself (10-15)

• Priests to have no physical defects (16-24)

22

• Priestly purity and the eating of holy things (1-16)

• Only sound offerings acceptable (17-33)

23

• Holy days and festivals (1-44)

  • Sabbath (3)

  • Passover (4, 5)

  • Festival of Unleavened Bread (6-8)

  • Offering of firstfruits (9-14)

  • Festival of Weeks (15-21)

  • Proper harvesting (22)

  • Festival of Trumpet Blast (23-25)

  • Day of Atonement (26-32)

  • Festival of Booths (33-43)

24

• Oil for the tabernacle lamps (1-4)

• Loaves of showbread (5-9)

• Abuser of God’s name stoned (10-23)

25

• The Sabbath year (1-7)

• The Jubilee year (8-22)

• Restoration of property (23-34)

• How to treat the poor (35-38)

• Laws on slavery (39-55)

26

• Keep away from idolatry (1, 2)

• Blessings for obedience (3-13)

• Punishment for disobedience (14-46)

27

• Redemption of vowed things (1-27)

  • People (1-8)

  • Animals (9-13)

  • Houses (14, 15)

  • Fields (16-25)

  • Firstborn (26, 27)

• Things unconditionally devoted to Jehovah (28, 29)

• Redemption of the tenth parts (30-34)