LEVITICUS OUTLINE

A Ralph Johnson

Theme: Laws administered by the Levites, the priestly tribe

A book of holy living 

Around 1,400 B.C.

CHAPTERS &

KEY WORDS

OUTLINE

27ch(5) (brief)

 

 

I.         LAWS CONCERNING OFFERINGS (1:1—6:7)

1: Burnt offerings

A.      Burnt-Offerings (Morning & evening at main altar)

1.   Herd (2-9)

2.    Flock (10-13)

3.        Birds (14-17)

2: Meal offerings

B.      Meal-Offering   (chap. 2) 1

No leaven or honey 11. Must be salted 13

3: Peace offerings

C.      Peace-Offerings (chap. 3)

4: Sin offerings

D.      Sin-Offering (Unwitting sin) (4:1—5:13)

1.        Priest (3-12)

2.        Whole congregation (13-21)

3.        Ruler (22-26)

4.        Common people (27-35)

5: Trespass offerings

       a)  Kinds of sins (5:1-13)

-Failing to reveal knowledge of a crime (1)

-Touching a carcass (2)

-Touching an unclean person (3)

-Swearing rashly (4)

b)    Kinds of offerings (5-13)

E.     Trespass-Offering (unwitting sin) (5:14—6:7)

(Trespasses requiring restitution)

1.     General (5:14-19)

6: Priests

2.     Kinds of trespasses (6:1-7)

 

II.  LAWS CONCERNING THE PRIESTHOOD (6:8—7:38)

  1. Responsibilities and privileges (6:8—7:36)

1.        Burnt-offerings (6:8-11)

2.        Fire on the altar to be kept burning (6:12-13)

3.      Meal-offerings (6:14-16)

4.      Sin offering (6:17-18)

5.      Offerings for Aaron and his sons (6:19-30)

7: Priests

6.      Trespass-offerings (7:1-10)

7.      Peace-offering (7:11 -21)

8.      No fat or blood to be eaten (7:22-27)

9.      Wave and Heave-offerings (Part of Peace-offering) (7:28-36)

Conclusion (7:37-38)

 

8: Consecration

B.      Consecration of the priests: Aaron and his sons (chap. 8—9)

1.  General consecration (chap. 8)

9: Aaron

2,  Consecration before the people (chap. 9)

 

10: Nadab & Abihu

 

 

 

 

 

 
  1. Transgressions of Nadab and Abihu  (chap. 10)

1.        Burned for transgression –strange fire offered  (1-7)

2.        Warning, Priests not drink wine before entering (10:8-11)

3.        Meal-offering 12

4.        Wave breast 14

5.        Heave shoulder (10:15)

6.        Moses angered at not finding goat for the Sin-offering 16-20

 

 

III. LAWS FOR HOLY LIVING (chap. 11—20)

11: Meats

A.      Clean and unclean meats (chap. 11)

 

12: Birth

B.       Purification at birth: Boys 7+33=40 days; Girls 14+66=80 (chap. 12)

 

13: Leprosy

C.      Leprosy (chap. 13—14)

1.        Skin (1-46)

2.        Garments (47-59)

14: Leprosy

3.        Cleansing (1-32)

4.        Houses (33-53)

15: Discharges

D.      Fleshly discharges (chap. 15)

1.        Flesh (1-15)

2.        Men’s seed (16-18)

3.        Women’s menstruation (19-24)

4.        Discharges of women at other times (25-30)

              Conclusion (31-33)

16: Atonement
  1. Day of atonement (chap. 16)

1.        Warning against careless entering of the Most Holy (1-2)

2.        Offerings (3-34)

Bullock for Sin-offering 6

Ram for Burnt-offering 3

Two he-goats for Sin-offering (one to be let loose) 20

 

17: Prohibitions
  1. Prohibitions (chap. 17)

1.        Unauthorized sacrifices (1-9)

2.        Eating blood or things that die of themselves (10-16)

 

18: Sexual sin
  1. Abominations (chap. 18)

1.        Incest (6-18)

2.        Menstruation rules for purity (19)

3.        Adultery (20)

4.        Children burnt to Moloch (21)

5.        Homosexual behavior (22)

6.        Sex with beasts (23)

7.        Warnings (24-30)

 

19: General laws
  1. General rules for holy living (chap. 19—20)

1.        Respect for parents (3)

2.        Keep the Sabbaths (3)

3.        Idolatry (4)

4.        Peace-offerings (5-8)

5.        Gleanings to be left for the poor (9-10)

6.        Stealing (11)

7.        Lying (11)

8.        Swearing falsely and profaning the name of God (12)

9.        Defrauding and robbery forbidden (13)

10.     Employers not to withhold wages (13)

11.     Deaf not to be cursed (14)

12.     Blind not to be abused (14)

13.     Judgment must be fair neither favoring the poor nor the powerful (15)

14.     Tale-bearing prohibited (16)

15.     False-accusations (16)

16.     Do not hate your neighbor. 17

17.      Speak and try to solve problem.  (17)

18.     Do not take vengeance.  18

19.     Love your neighbor as yourself.  18

20.     Do not cause confusion by mixing things of value.

Mixing cattle (19)

Mixing seed (19 )

Mixing fibers in garments (19)

21.     Bondwoman’s seduction (20-22)

22.     First-fruits (23-25)

23.     Blood eating prohibited (26)

24.     Enchantments prohibited (26)

25.     Marring bodies or beards with cuts or marks (27-28)

26.     Prostitute a daughter (29)

27.     Sabbaths (30)

28.     Sanctuary reverenced (30)

29.     Familiar spirits prohibited (31)

30.     Aged shown respect (32)

31.     Strangers not to be mistreated (33-34)

32.     Just measures to be maintained (35-37)

20: General laws

33.     Moloch idolatry prohibited (1-5)

34.     Familiar Spirits and wizards prohibited. (6)

35.     Sanctify yourselves (7-8)

36.     Cursing parents to receive death (9)

37.     Adultery to be punished by death (10)

38.     Incest (11-12)

39.     Homosexual behavior (13)

40.     Marriage to both mother and daughter  14

41.     Sex with a beast (15)

42.     Incest 17

43.     Sex during menstruation prohibited (18)

44.     Incest (19-21)

45.     Do not observe the customs of the nations.  Distinguish between clean and unclean foods (25-26)

46.     Familiar spirits communication prohibited (27)

 

21: Priests

IV.  LAWS GOVERNING HOLY THINGS (chap. 21—24)

  1. Priests to be holy  (21:1-9)

1.        Not to touch the dead (1-4)

2.        Not to mark themselves (5-6)

3.        Restrictions on who to marry (7-8)

4.        Daughters must be chaste (9)

 

  1. High Priest to be holy (21:10—22:9)

1.        Must not defile himself for the dead (10-12)

2.        Restrictions on who to marry  (13-15)

3.        No blemishes (16-24)

22: Holy things

5.        Holiness required (1-9)

 

  1. The Holy Things (22:10—33)

1.        No stranger to eat of the holy things (22:10-15)

2.        No imperfect sacrifices to be offered (17-24)

 

23: Feasts
  1. Holy Feasts  (chap. 23, cf. Num. chapters 28—29)

1.        Sabbath (3)

2.        Passover (5)

3.        Unleavened bread (5-8)

4.        Firstfruits (9-14)

5.        Pentecost (opening harvest) (15-21)

Leave corners of fields for poor (22)

6.        Trumpets (23-25)

7.        Atonement (26-32)

8.        Tabernacles (33-44)

 

24: Blasphemy
  1. Care of the lamps and table of Showbread (24:1-9)

 

  1. Man blasphemes and curses (24:10-23)

1.  Problem presented (10-12)

2.  Judgment pronounced. Rules of judgment (13-22)

3.  Punishment imposed.  The man is stoned (23)

 

25: Land

V.   LAWS OF REMEMBRANCE (chap. 25—27)

  1. Land must rest every seventh year (1-7)
  2. Jubilee every 50th year (8-34)

1.        Return of property (13-17)

2.        Trust God to provide (18-23)

3.        Land not to be sold in perpetuity (23-28)

4.        Property in cities (29-34)

C.      Charging interest to Israelites prohibited (36-38)

D.      Laws concerning slaves (39-55)

26: Promises
  1. Promises and warnings to remain holy

1.        Reminder concerning idols, Sabbaths and sanctuary (2)

2.        Promises for faithfulness (3-13)

3.        Warning against unfaithfulness (14-39)

4.        If they repent (40-46)

27: Vows
  1. Vows and devoted things

1.        Vows (1-13)

2.        Houses (14-25)

3.        Firstlings (26-29

4.        Tithe of the land (30-33

Concluding remarks (34)