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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

Leviticus 24:10-23

Leviticus 24:10-23

After an Israelite woman's son blasphemes the Lord's name during a fight, Israel waits for God's judgment. The Lord requires justice, equal law for na...

Leviticus 24:5-9

Leviticus 24:5-9

Leviticus 24:1-4

Leviticus 24:1-4

Israel was to supply pure pressed olive oil so Aaron could keep the lampstand burning continually before Yahweh outside the veil. The earthly light wa...

Leviticus 24:10-23

The Penalty for Blasphemy

An Israelite woman's son blasphemes the Lord's covenant name during a fight and is brought before Moses. God applies one law to native and stranger al...

Leviticus 25:1-7

Sabbath of the Seventh Year

Israel was to work the land for six years and then give the Lord's land a Sabbath rest in the seventh. The command taught that the land belongs to God...

Leviticus 23:33-44

Leviticus 23:33-44

At the Feast of Booths, Israel was to spend seven days celebrating and remembering God's redemption from Egypt, patient covenant faithfulness through ...

Leviticus 24:5-9

The Bread of Life

Twelve loaves of showbread, representing Israel's twelve tribes, were arranged before the Lord on the gold table and replaced every Sabbath. The memor...

Leviticus 23:26–32

Leviticus 23:26–32

Leviticus 23:23-32

Day of Atonement

The Day of Atonement was Israel's most holy day, when the high priest entered the Holy of Holies with sacrifice and the people rested, fasted, examine...

Leviticus 23:23–25

Leviticus 23:23–25

Israel was commanded to observe a Sabbath rest and holy gathering on the first day of the seventh month, marked by the blowing of trumpets and an offe...

Leviticus 23:15–22

Leviticus 23:15–22

The Feast of Weeks closes the harvest cycle with thanksgiving to the generous, redeeming God who supplied Israel's food. The command to leave the fiel...

Leviticus 23:9–14

Leviticus 23:9–14

After Passover, Israel must bring the first sheaf of the barley harvest to the priest, along with burnt, grain, and drink offerings, acknowledging tha...