Leviticus

(Answers)

Updated 12/2023

 

CHAPTER 1

  1. Bulls, sheep or goats, and birds (turtledoves or pigeons) were used for the burnt offerings. The bulls, sheep, or goats had to be a male withoiut blemish.

CHAPTER 2

  1. Leaven (yeast) was not tp be included in the grain offering.
  2. All grain offerings must be of fine flour, anointed with oil and frankincense, and salt must be included in the grain offering.
  3. A memorial portion of the flour, oil, and frankincense was offered by fire upon the altar.

CHAPTER 3

  1. A male or female bull, lamb, or goat was used for a peace offering.
  2. The animal must be unblemished.
  3. The two kidneys, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and all the fat that covers and is on the entrails was the Lord’s.

CHAPTER 4

  1. a. A young bull without blemish was used for the sin offering of the priest. b. Some of the blood was sprinkled seven times before the veil., some put on the horns of the altar of incense, the rest was poured at the base of the altar of burnt offering c. The fat of the entrails, the two kidneys, and the fatty lobe on the liver was burned on the altar of burnt offering. The rest of the animal was burned outside the camp where the ashes are dumped. (vs. 12)
  2. a. The blood was sprinkled before the veil seven times and some put on the horns of the altar of incense, and the rest poured out at the base of the altar of burnt offering. (17-18) b. The bull was burned the same as the sin offering for the priests. The fat of the entrails, the two kidneys, and the fatty lobe of the liver was burned on the altar of burnt offering. The rest of the bull was burned outside the camp.
  3. a. A male kid goat without blemish was used for a ruler or leader’s sin offering. b. The blood was placed on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and the rest poured out at the base of the altar. c. On the altar of burnt offering.
  4. a. A female kid goat or lamb was used for the sin offering of the people. (28,32) b. The blood was placed on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and the rest poured out at the base of the altar. c. On the altar.

CHAPTER 5

  1. The one hearing another’s oath must speak up and tell the truth of the matter. Otherwise, he will be guilty of wrong also.
  2. If a person touched anything unclean, whether the carcass of a beast, livestock, or creeping thing, any human uncleanness, or if he made an oath thoughtlessly he would be guilty of a trespass requiring a sin offering
  3. A person who sinned unintentionally regarding the holy things of the Lord would have to sacrifice a ram without blemish and make restitution for the harm he has done plus 1/5 more and give it to the priests.
  4. a. Sin committed in ignorance is still sin. b. A ram without blemish was offered as a burnt offering for sin committed in ignorance.  c. God says he is guilty of his iniquity. The action of the sin is still sin whether a person knew it or not.

CHAPTER 6

  1. a. Anyone who had stolen or concealed in any way something that belong to another he was to restore it fully, plus 1/5 (20%) more. (vs.5) b. Paying the extra fifth to the owner covered the trouble and damages he suffered.
  2. The burnt offering was to remain all night on the altar until morning.
  3. The ashes of the burnt offering would be set to the side and then taken to a clean area outside the camp.
  4. A fire was always to burn on the altar of burnt offering. It should never go out.
  5. The remainder of the grain offering was to be eaten by Aaron and his sons with unleavened bread in the court of the tabernacle.
  6. Aaron and is sons were to offer 1/10 of the grain offering each day, half in the morning and half in the evening.
  7. The meat of the sin offerings was to be eaten by Aaron and his sons and all male priests in the court of the tabernacle.

CHAPTER 7

  1. The meat of the burnt offering was for the male priests who offered it.
  2. The skin of the animal offered as a burnt offering was for the priest who offered it.
  3. Unleavened cakes were offered but leavened bread could be offered for the thanksgiving offering.
  4. A vow or voluntary peace offering must be eaten by the next morning. On the third day it must be burned with fire.
  5. The people could not eat the fat of the ox, sheep, or goat nor the blood of any bird or beast.
  6. Aaron and his sons could keep the breast and the right thigh for themselves (These were waved in a certain way or pattern before God giving credit to the one who dedicated it.)

CHAPTER 8

  1. Moses consecrated Aaron and his sons as priests before the Lord.
  2. The second ram was used to consecrate Aaron and his sons.
  3. The breast and the right thigh were burned on the altar of burnt offering.
  4. The consecration period continued for seven days. 

CHAPTER 9

  1. The day after Aaron and his sons were consecrated (the eighth day) the elders and people of Israel were to bring their sin offering and their burnt offering. The people of Israel also brought a peace offering and a grain offering.

CHAPTER 10

  1. a. Nadad and Abihu offered unauthorized incense on a censer to God.  b. God killed them. c. God is to be worshiped holy and according to His way. This brings honor and glory God to Him, not us.
  2. a. The priests were not to partake of any intoxicating drink when they went into the tabernacle of meeting. b. The priests needed to be able to discern between the clean and unclean, the holy and unholy, and be able to teach the children of Israel all the statues of the Lord.

CHAPTER 11

  1. The people could eat animals that had split hooves and also chewed the cud.
  2. Of those in the water the people could eat those with both fins and scales in the seas or river.
  3. Birds that ate flesh (carnivores) could not be eaten.
  4. If they touched an unclean animal or the carcass of an unclean animal the people had to wash their garments and would be unclean till evening.
  5. An earthen vessel must be destroyed and whatever was in it.
  6. If they touched the carcass of a clean animal they would have to wash their clothes and be unclean until evening.
  7. The people could not eat of the creeping things or that which crawled on its belly.

CHAPTER 12

  1. a. A woman would be unclean for seven days after having a son.  b. A son was circumcised. On the eighth day after he was born c. The mother’s purification period was thirty-three days.
  2. a. A woman would be unclean fourteen days after having a daughter.  b. The mother’s purification period was sixty-six days after having a daughter. c. The possible difference in purification could be that the males were circumcised on the eighth day and were ceremonially clean. The females had no ceremonial cleaning. Therefore, the daughter and mother would be unclean at the same time. The mother would still be unclean at the end of the daughter’s purification. The mother then would have to bear another period of purification.

CHAPTER 13

  1. A leprous person was isolated to keep the disease from spreading among the people.
  2. God spoke to Moses and Aaron concerning the law of leprosy.

CHAPTER 14

  1. The one to be ceremonially cleansed would first have two living birds presented, one that would be killed and the other that would be set free. The blood of the killed bird would be put on the one to be healed and on the bird to be set free. After this, the one to be cleansed would shave his head and wash his clothes and body. On the eighth day he would shave off all his hair, his beard, and his eye-brows and would present a trespass offering, a burnt offering, and a grain offering.
  2. The one to be cleansed would wait seven days after coming into the camp before the cleansing could be completed.
  3. The house was scraped, old stone taken away and replaced with new ones.
  4. If theleprous condition spread they broke the house down and destroyed all the parts in an unclean place.

CHAPTER 15

  1. a. They would be unclean until the discharge was finished. b. After the discharge had stopped, they would wait for seven days and then wash themselves and their clothes. On the eighth day they would bring a burnt offering and a sin offering to the priest.
  2. If there is an emission of semen by the man or a man with a woman they must bathe themselves and wash any garment that may have semen. They will be unclean until evening.
  3. A woman would be unclean for seven days during her monthly impurity.
  4. If a man could not restrain himself then he too would be unclean for seven days and must separate himself from others.
  5. Once a woman’s discharge was done she would count an additional seven days and she would be clean. On the eighth day she would go to the priest and offer a sin offering and a burnt offering.

CHAPTER 16

  1. a. The Day of Atonement was a ceremonially atonement for the Priest, the Most Holy Place, the altar, and the sins of the whole congregation whatever they might be. b. The day of Atonement is done once a year on the tenth day of the seventh month (Yon Kipper).  c. The blood of the sacrifices was taken behind the veil and sprinkled on mercy seat. No other sacrifices were sprinkled on the mercy seat.
  2. The sacrifice goat represents Jesus and atonement for sins. The scapegoat represents Israel and us, the sinner, set free under grace.

CHAPTER 17

  1. a. The people were never to eat the blood of any animal. b. The blood is its life and is used to make atonement for the sins of the people.

CHAPTER 18

  1. The children of Israel were never to lie with any of their close relatives.
  2. God hates when a man lies with another man. It is an abomonation to Him.
  3. God would vomit or remove them out of the land as He would do to the people already there.

CHAPTER 19

  1. The people were never to make any molded gods as idols to worship.
  2. The people were to leave the corners of the land and the gleanings for the poor.
  3. Literally they were not to mistreat the deaf or blind who could not defend themselves. Figuratively, they were not to lead the weaker brother astray or take advantage of anyone who does realize or understand what they are doing.
  4. The fruit of the trees was not allowed to be eaten until the fifth year, after the offering of first fruits to the Lord in the fourth year.
  5. They were to love strangers as themselves for they were once mistreated strangers in a foreign land.

CHAPTER 20

  1. Anyone who cursed his father or nother was put to death.
  2. Mediums were put to death.

CHAPTER 21

  1. A priest was to marry a virgin of his own people.
  2. Anyone who had any physical defect was unclean and could not approach the veil or the altar.

CHAPTER 22

  1. The priest would remain unclean until he washed himself and when the sun went down. Then he could eat of the holy offerings, it is his food.
  2. The priests could not eat anything that died naturally or was torn by beasts.
  3. Offerings that were blemished, blind, maimed, broken, or with skin disease or had any defect would not be accepted.
  4. A mother and her young could not be sacrificed on the same day.

CHAPTER 23

  1. The Sabbath day was the day of rest. It was the seventh day in which no work was to be done.
  2. The Passover feast and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were held in the first month.
  3. The Feast of First Fruits was a wave offering to God at the beginning of harvest season.
  4. Seven Sabbaths plus one day after the wave offering of first fruits were counted before the Feast of Weeks was celebrated.
  5. The Feast of Trumpets was a Sabbath rest day, a memorial day to God, observed on the first day of the seventh month.
  6. The Feasts of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles was held in the seventh month (the first, the tenth, and the fifteenth respectively).
  7. The Feast of Tabernacles was a feast to celebrate God’s provision for the children of Israel in the wilderness when they lived in booths.

CHAPTER 24

  1. The lamps outside the veil were never to go out. All day and all night the lamps burned.
  2. The showbread was eaten by Aaron and his sons after replacing it with the new showbread each Sabbath.
  3. A blasphemer of God would be stoned to death.

CHAPTER 25

  1. The land was sown six years and then rested for one year.
  2. Every 50 years was the time for release for a person to receive their freedom and for land to be returned to the original owner.
  3. God would bless their sixth year with more than enough to carry them through even to the ninth year.
  4. The people were not to charge their brethren interest.

CHAPTER 26

  1. If they obeyed God, they would have peace and blessings on their land and against their enemies.
  2. If they disobeyed, they would be hungry, be taken by enemies, and have no blessings.
  3. God's warning was through the destruction, plagues, loss of life, and other punishment, which was an effort to reform the people.

CHAPTER 27

  1. Any dedication of property or people to the work of the priesthood.
  2. The value of the property plus 1/5 more was required to redeem your property.