The English name Leviticus comes from the Latin Leviticus, which is in turn from

the Ancient Greek: Λευιτικόν,[2] Leuitikon, referring to the priestly tribe of the
Israelites, “Levi.” The Greek expression is in turn a variant of the rabbinic
Hebrew torat kohanim,[3] "law of priests", as many of its laws relate to priests.

In these first chapters of Leviticus, the Lord gives detailed instructions to Moses
about how to conduct various kinds of sacrifices: the burnt offering, grain
offerings, offerings of well-being, sin offerings, guilt offerings, etc.

The text goes on to speak of what could be called a Sabbath of Sabbaths. The Year
of Jubilee is set by counting off "seven Sabbaths of years," or seven times seven
years. The fiftieth year, then, is to be the Year of Jubilee (25:8-10). It is
proclaimed with the blowing of the ram's horn on the Day of Atonement, the tenth
day of the seventh month.

The Year of Jubilee is a time of Sabbath rest, a time of homecoming, and a time of
liberation. The land is to lie fallow, as it does in the Sabbath year. Each
Israelite is to return to his ancestral land and to his clan. Debts are to be
forgiven, Israelite slaves are to be set free, and land is to be returned to its
proper owners. In other words, if a person falls on hard times and is forced to
sell his land or himself to pay off debts, the sale is not permanent. Both land and
people are set free in the Year of Jubilee.

This vision of liberation is based on two primary theological claims. The land
belongs not to the one who buys it, but to the Lord: "The land shall not be sold in
perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants" (25:23).
Likewise, Israelites may not be anyone's slaves, "For they are my servants, whom I
brought out of the land of Egypt" (25:42; see also 25:55). Both the land and the
people belong to the Lord, and both are released in the Year of Jubilee from any
illegitimate claim on them.

Lot's of Blood

Chapters 1-7 cover the many animal sacrifices of Israel’s worship. Leviticus is
bathed in blood. This is something God wanted to impress upon Israel. Sin is death,
and death is the only thing that can atone for sin. It is also important to
remember that many of the animal sacrifices were eaten. These sacrifices were akin
to congregational meals today. The sacrifices also provided fellowship.

Summary: Five Kinds of Sacrifices

1. The Burnt Offering: This sacrifice was completely burned except for the skin. It
was an atonement for sin.

2. The Grain or Meal Offering: These offerings were given to support the priests.

3. Peace Offering: This offering was eaten by the priests and in some cases by the
worshipers.

4. Sin Offerings: These offerings were made for unintentional sins. The sacrifice
varied depending on the leadership status of the worshiper.

5. Trespass Offerings: These were similar to the Sin Offerings except that they
also involved money that was given as restitution for whatever loss the person’s
sin may have caused.

08 - Aaron and Sons Consecrated

These sacrifices follow the order given by the LORD on Mt. Sinai in Exodus 29.10-
34. Moses washed Aaron and his sons and clothed them. Reminds us of baptism. He
anointed the Tabernacle and Aaron with oil. Moses offered a Sin Offering and a
Burnt Offering. Two more rams were offered as well as bread. The blood is placed on
the right ear, thumb and toe to symbolize a kind of covering with blood. These were
special offerings for the consecration of Aaron and his sons. Finally, they were
all confined to the Tabernacle for seven days to complete their consecration.

Aaron was the brother of Moses and Miriam. God met Moses at the burning bush and
told him to demand that Pharaoh release the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt.
Moses hesitated, claiming that he could not speak well. Therefore, God said that
Aaron would serve as Moses' spokesman. When the law was given at Mount Sinai, God
designated Aaron as Israel's first high priest. Aaron built a golden calf for
Israel to worship, which enraged God and Moses, but Aaron was, in time, consecrated
as high priest. Some challenged Aaron, but God confirmed Aaron's position by
miraculously making Aaron's wooden staff produce buds. Aaron died in the
wilderness and did not enter the promised land

09 - First Sacrifices in the Tabernacle

Moses directs Aaron and sons give a sin offering and burnt offerings. The people
offer sin offerings, burnt offerings and peace offerings. Moses said they would see
the glory of the LORD, and they did. They shouted and fell on their faces.

10 - Profane Fire of Nadab and Abihu

These sons of Aaron offered profane fire (probably entered after drinking alcohol,
see vv9ff). Fire devoured them, and they are carried outside the camp. The LORD
spoke to Aaron (only here for Aaron) that neither he nor his sons should drink
intoxicating drink when they go into the tabernacle.

Three Important Categories

"Holy, Clean, Unclean"

God taught the people of Israel that there were three important categories that
they needed to respect as His own chosen people.

Holy = Someone or something who was clean and dedicated to the service of the LORD
(sacrifices/worship)

Clean = Someone or something that could be dedicated to the service of the LORD
(Holy) or could receive the services of the LORD (sacrifices/worship) and was
allowed in the community of Israel. While there may have been some hygienic value
in some of these distinctions, God’s concern was much more about how these outer
things could be used to ensure the inner cleanliness and holiness of the heart
through His word.

Unclean = Someone or something that needed to be purified before it could receive

the services of the LORD (sacrifices/worship) or be allowed into the community of
Israel. This was not necessarily someone or something that was sinful. It just
needed the required purification.

Purification was God’s way of helping the people realize that the services of the
LORD (sacrifices/worship) were special gifts from Him. Purification reminded the
Israelites that they were His special (Holy) people. These rites of purification
applied only to the people of Israel.

Ritual purity 11-15

Isralites can be impure in just a few ways by contact with reproductive fluids, by
having skin disease, by touching mold or fungus and by touching a dead body. All of
these were associated with mortality with the loss of life.
Become impure whem you are contaminated by touching death. And death is the
opposite of gods holiness because gods essence is life. and impuriti is not sinful
its normal and temporary it will last a week or and then its over. It will only
sinful if you are impure and walk into gods presence carrying these symbol of death
and impurity on body. The last way of becoming impure was by eating certain animals
that are unclean kosher food laws or the jewish dietary apply in here. All of these
are set of cultural symbols that remind israel that gods holiness was to effect all
areas their lives

Day of atonement 16-17

A lot of isralite's didn't notice a lot of sin happening that goes unnoticed that
people are deal with. So 1 time a year a priests would take two goats, one of those
goats will killed and its blood is carried right into gods presence where it
symbolic covers or atones for israel sin.

God says that the blood of a goat is its life, and so the goats life is offered as
a substitute. it;s receiving gods punishment for israel sin so that people dont
have to.

The second goat is the priest puts his hands on it and then he confesses all the
sins of israel its like hes placing the sin on the goat and then that goat gets
cast out forever into wilderness. And it's called the scapegoat. Its very powerful
image of how god is graciously removing israels sin.

Moral purity 18-20

Israelites were called to live differently than the Canaanites. (The people who
lived in the area known as the Southern Levant -- which is now recognized as
Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Lebanon, and parts of Syria) They were
took care for the poor instead of overlooking them. They were have a high level
sexual integrity and they were to promote justice throughout their entire land.

qualification of priest 21-22

The priests were called to the highest level of moral integrity and ritual holiness
because they represented the people before god but the also represented god to the
people.

Ritual 23-25 the seven annual feast

And each of these retold a different part of the story about how god redeemed them
from slavery in egypt and brought them the wilderness on their way to the promised
land. and by celebrating this feasts regularly israel would remember who they were
and who god was to them. Passover, unleavened bread, first fruits, weeks/petecost,
trumpets, day of atonement

call to covenant faithfulness 26-27

Moses calling Israel to be faithful to all of the terms of the covenant and he
describes the blessings of peace and abundance that will result if israel obeys all
of these laws. He also warns them that if they are unfaithful and dishonor gods
holiness, it will result in disaster and ultimately exile from the land promised
abraham.