Leviticus

Leviticus 27

Leviticus 27

The Lord regulates how Israel may dedicate people, animals, houses, fields, and tithes to him, including how some dedicated things may be redeemed. As...

Leviticus 26:40-46

Leviticus 26:40-46

Leviticus 26:14-39

Leviticus 26:14-39

The covenant King warns Israel that despising his statutes and breaking his covenant will bring escalating curses: terror, famine, defeat, desolation,...

Leviticus 26:14-39

Curses of the Covenant

God warns Israel that persistent covenant-breaking will reverse his blessings into escalating curses: disease, defeat, famine, wild beasts, siege, exi...

Leviticus 26:40-46

Promises for Repentance

God promises that when his chastened people humble themselves and accept their guilt, he will remember his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Ev...

Leviticus 26:1-13

Leviticus 26:1-13

The covenant Lord commands Israel to reject idols, keep his Sabbaths, reverence his sanctuary, and walk in his statutes. He promises obedient Israel r...

Leviticus 25:39-55

Leviticus 25:39-55

God's law distinguishes an impoverished Israelite servant from a permanent slave: because Israel belongs to the Lord who redeemed them from Egypt, fel...

Leviticus 25:35-38

Leviticus 25:35-38

Israel must sustain a brother who falls into poverty as it would a stranger or sojourner, taking neither interest on money nor profit on food, because...

Leviticus 25:23-34

Leviticus 25:23-34

Because Israel's land ultimately belonged to God, inherited fields could not be sold permanently. A relative could redeem lost property, and otherwise...

Leviticus 25:18-22

Leviticus 25:18-22

Israel's sabbatical-year obedience required concrete faith: they were not to cultivate their fields in the seventh year, so God promised a sixth-year ...

Leviticus 25:8–17

Leviticus 25:8–17

After seven cycles of sabbatical years, Israel was to sound the Jubilee trumpet, consecrate the fiftieth year, proclaim liberty, return people to thei...

Leviticus 25:1-7

Leviticus 25:1-7