This page accompanies my Leviticus Notes.

I.                     Introduction

II.                   Offerings

a.        Animal offerings (1:3-17)

                                                               i.      Bull offering (3-9)

                                                              ii.      Sheep or Goat offering (10-13)

                                                            iii.      Bird offering (14-17)

b.       Grain offerings (2:1-16)

                                                               i.      Offering of flour (1-3)

                                                              ii.      Offering of baked goods (4-10)

                                                            iii.      Prohibition on Yeast (11-13)

                                                            iv.      Offering of firstfruits of grain (14-16)

c.        Fellowship Offerings (3:1-17)

                                                               i.      Bull fellowship offering (1-5)

                                                              ii.      Sheep fellowship offering (6-11)

                                                            iii.      Goat fellowship offering (12-16)

                                                            iv.      Lasting covenant against eating blood and fat (17)

d.       Unintentional Sin Offerings (4:1-35)

                                                               i.      If a Priest sins (1-12)

                                                              ii.      If the whole community sins (13-21)

                                                            iii.      If a leader sins (22-26)

                                                            iv.      If a member of the community sins (27-35)

1.        and brings a goat (27-31)

2.        and brings a lamb (32-35)

e.        Unknown Sin Offerings (5:1-19)

                                                               i.      Lesser Sins (1-13)

1.        Failure to speak up (1-2)

2.        Touching human uncleanness (3)

3.        Taking an oath (4)

4.        Sacrifices (5-13)

a.        of a lamb (5-6)

b.       of two doves (7-10)

c.        of wheat (11-13)

                                                              ii.      Greater Sins (14-19)

1.        The offering of a ram (14-16)

2.        Repetition of the sacrifice instructions? (17-19)

f.         Known Sin Offerings (6:1-7)

                                                               i.      restitution (1-5)

                                                              ii.      penalty (6-7)

g.       Regulations on Offerings (6:8-30; 7:1-38)

                                                               i.      on burnt offering (8-18)

                                                              ii.      on grain offering (19-23)

1.        on the normal grain offering (19-20)

2.        on the ordination offering (21-22)

                                                            iii.      on sin offering (24-30)

                                                            iv.      on guilt offering (7:1-10)

                                                             v.      on fellowship offering (11-36)

1.        expression of thankfulness (12-15)

2.        expression of freewill or vow offering (16-18)

                                                            vi.      meat regulations (19-35)

1.        clean and unclean (19-21)

2.        prohibition on eating fat (22-27)

                                                          vii.      mode of bringing offering (28-30)

                                                         viii.      priests’ portion (31-36)

                                                             ix.      Conclusion (37-38)

III.                 Ordination of Aaron and his sons (8:1-36)

a.        Preparations and gathering of materials (1-2)

b.       Assembly of the people (3-4)

c.        Dressing Aaron (5-9)

d.       Anointing Aaron and the tabernacle with oil (10-12)

e.        Dressing Aaron’s sons (13)

f.         Offering the bull (14-17)

g.       Offering the first ram (18-21)

h.       Offering the ordination ram (22-25)

i.         Offering the bread (26-29)

j.         Final anointing (30)

k.        Instructions to eat and wait (31-36)

IV.                 Sacrifices on the Eighth Day (9:1-24)

a.        Introduction (1-4)

b.       Gathering the People (5-7)

c.        Calf as sin offering (8-11)

d.       Burnt offering (12-14)

e.        Goat as people’s sin offering (15)

f.         People’s burnt offering (16)

g.       People’s grain offering (17)

h.       Fellowship offering (18-21)

i.         Aaron steps down (22)

j.         Fire from the Presence of God (23-24)

V.                   The Problems with Aaron’s Sons (10:1-20)

a.        Nadab and Abihu offer unauthorized fire (1-7)

b.       More instructions to the priests (8-15)

c.        The Uneaten sin offering (16-20)

VI.                 Animal Regulations (11:1-47)

a.        Animals you can and cannot eat (1-8)

b.       Sea creatures you can eat and not eat (9-12)

c.        Birds you cannot eat (13-19)

d.       Bugs you can and cannot eat (20-23)

e.        The results of uncleanness (24-28)

f.          Ground animals you cannot eat (29-31)

g.       Effects of unclean animals on other objects (32-40)

h.       Conclusion (41-47)

VII.               Childbirth Regulations (12:1-8)

a.        Time of uncleanness for a boy (1-4)

b.       Time of uncleanness for a girl (5)

c.        Sacrifice after time of uncleanness (6-7)

d.       Adjusted sacrifice for poor folks (8)

VIII.             Regulations on Diseases (13:1-59; 14:1-57)

a.        Skin Diseases (13:1-46)

b.       Mildews (13:47-59)

c.        Cleansing of Skin Disease (14:1-32)

                                                               i.      If you’re wealthy(14:1-20)

                                                              ii.      If you’re poor (14:21-32)

d.       Mildews in houses (14:33-57)

                                                               i.      If it is destructive (14:33-42)

                                                              ii.      If it was destructive and returns (43-45)

                                                            iii.      The effects of the closed house (46-47)

                                                            iv.      Purifying the cleansed house (48-53)

e.        Conclusion (54-57)

IX.                Regulations on Bodily Emissions (15:1-33)

a.        Man with a Bodily Emission (1-15)

b.       Man with an Emission of Semen (16-18)

c.        Woman with her Period (19-24)

d.       Woman with a Continuing Period (25-31)

X.                  Conclusion on Uncleanness (15:32-33)

XI.                Day of Atonement Instructions (16:1-34)

a.        Introduction (1-2)

b.       Preparations (3-10)

c.        Atonement in the Most Holy Place (11-16)

d.       Atonement for the Tent of Meeting (16)

e.        Atonement for the Altar (17-19)

f.         Handling of the Scapegoat (20-22)

g.       Afterwards

                                                               i.       for Aaron (21-25)

                                                              ii.      for the Scapegoat handler (26)

                                                            iii.      for the handler of the remains of the sacrifice (27-28)

h.       Final Instructions (29-34)

XII.              Daily Instructions (17:1-16)

a.        All sacrifices to be at the tabernacle (1-9)

b.       Ban on eating blood (10-16)

                                                               i.      General Ban (10-12)

                                                              ii.      Commandment to Drain Blood (13-14)

                                                            iii.      Uncleanness from eating field kills (15-16)

XIII.            Ban on Detestable (Mostly Sexual) Practices (18:1-30)

a.        Introduction (1-5)

b.       Prohibitions on Incestuous Hetero Relationships (6-20)

c.        Prohibition on Child Sacrifice (21)

d.       Prohibitions on Unnatural Sexual Acts (21-23

e.        Explanation of Results (24-28)

f.         Conclusion (29-30)

XIV.            Miscellaneous Commandments (19:1-20:27)

XV.              Specific Commandments for Priests (21:1-22:16)

a.        Remaining Clean (21:1-15)

b.       No Priests with defects (21:16-24)

c.        Ways the priests can become unclean (22:1-9)

d.       Rules for eating the sacred offerings (22:10-16)

XVI.            Repetition of rules on animals to be offered (22:17-33)

XVII.          Rules on the Festivals (23:1-44)

a.        Introduction (23:1-3)

b.       Passover (23:4-14)

c.        Pentecost (23:15-21)

d.       Field Reaping Regulations Repeated (23:22)

e.        Trumpet Festival (23:23-25)

f.         Day of Atonement (23:26-32)

g.       Feast of Tabernacles (23:33-36;39-43)

h.       Out of Place Conclusion (37-38)

i.         Conclusion (44)

XVIII.        Practices in the Holy Places (24:1-9)

a.        Dealing with the oil in the lamp (1-4)

b.       Dealing with the showbread and the incense (5-9)

XIX.            A Blasphemous Interlude (24:10-23)

a.        A Woman blasphemes (24:10-16)

b.       More penalties for crime (24:16-23)

XX.              Provisions on Property (25:1-55)

a.        Observing the Sabbath year (25:1-7)

b.       Observing the Jubilee year (25:8-17)

c.        Eating during Sabbath (and Jubilee?) years (25:18-22)

d.       More on land sales (25:23-34)

                                                               i.      Intro (23-24)

                                                              ii.      Dealing with the poor (25-28)

                                                            iii.      Houses in walled and unwalled cities (29-31)

                                                            iv.      Levite property (32-34)

e.        Dealing with the part part deux (35-43)

f.         Slave regulations (44-55)

                                                               i.      Sources of slaves (44-46)

                                                              ii.      Alien slaveholders (46-53)

                                                            iii.      Jubilee and slaves (54-55)

XXI.            Prizes and Penalties (26:1-46)

a.        Final rules (1-2)

b.       Prize for Obedienece (3-13)

c.        Penalty for Disobedience (14-39)

                                                               i.      Simple Disobedience (14-20)

                                                              ii.      Continued Disobedience (21-22)

                                                            iii.      Continued Further (23-26)

                                                            iv.      Ultimate Disobedience (27-39)

d.       Possibility of Reconciliation (40-45)

e.        Conclusion (46)

XXII.          Regulations on Dedications to the Lord (27:1-34)

a.        Dedicating a Person to the Lord (1-8)

b.       Dedicating an animal (9-13)

c.        Dedicating a house (14-15)

d.       Dedicating Land (16-25)

                                                               i.      Dedicating family land (16-21)

                                                              ii.      Dedicating purchased land (22-25)

e.        You can’t dedicate the firstborn (26-28)

f.         Strange verse on destruction (29)

g.       Tithing (30-33)

XXIII.        Conclusion (27 :34)