• called'; Latin: Liber Leviticus) is the third book of the Torah (the Pentateuch) and of the Old Testament, also known as the Third Book of Moses. Many hypotheses...
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    Leviticus 18 (the eighteenth chapter of the Book of Leviticus) deals with a number of sexual activities considered abominable, including incest and bestiality...
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  • Wenham, Gordon (1979). The Book of Leviticus. Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802825223. Wikiquote has quotations related to Book of Exodus. Wikisource has original...
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  • books traditionally attributed to Moses). The book of Leviticus chapter 20 is more comprehensive on matters of detestable sexual acts. Some texts included...
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    Behar (redirect from Leviticus 25)
    parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the Book of Leviticus. The parashah tells the laws of the Sabbatical year (שמיטה‎, Shmita)...
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    parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the Book of Leviticus. The parashah lays out the laws of sacrifices (קָרְבָּנוֹת‎, korbanot)...
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    Emor (redirect from Leviticus 21)
    (פָּרָשָׁה‎, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the eighth in the Book of Leviticus. The parashah describes purity rules for priests...
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    property, and property rights. According to regulations found in the Book of Leviticus, certain indentured servants would be released from servitude, some...
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    Azazel (category Book of Leviticus)
    the term is used three times in the Book of Leviticus, where two male goats were to be sacrificed to Yahweh and one of the two was selected by lot, for Yahweh...
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    Moloch (category Book of Leviticus)
    which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the Book of Leviticus. The Bible strongly condemns practices that are associated with Moloch...
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    Leviticus 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Leviticus in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It contains laws on a...
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  • in the Book of Leviticus state "every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God...
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    Acharei Mot (redirect from Leviticus 16)
    annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. It is the sixth weekly portion (פָּרָשָׁה‎, parashah) in the Book of Leviticus, containing Leviticus 16:1–18:30. It is...
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    Moses (redirect from Criticism of Moses)
    20:1–17), and the Book of the Covenant (Exodus 20:22–23:19). The entire Book of Leviticus constitutes a second body of law, the Book of Numbers begins with...
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    Tiberian: ʾĂḇīhūʾ, "my father [is] he") were the two oldest sons of Aaron. According to Leviticus 10, they offered a sacrifice with "foreign fire" before the...
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    Book of Leviticus concerns laws for priests and sets out detailed rules for animal sacrifice. The Holiness code, Leviticus 17–26, sets out a list of prohibitions...
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    Samuel 21:9). In the book of Exodus and the Book of Leviticus, one is described as being created for the High Priest to wear as part of his official vestments...
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    Leviticus Rabbah, Vayikrah Rabbah, or Wayiqra Rabbah is a homiletic midrash to the Biblical book of Leviticus (Vayikrah in Hebrew). It is referred to...
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    Scapegoat (category Book of Leviticus)
    concept first appears in the Book of Leviticus, in which a goat is designated to be cast into the desert to carry away the sins of the community. Then Aaron...
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    end of the harvest time and thus of the agricultural year in the Land of Israel. The more elaborate religious significance from the Book of Leviticus is...
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  • Cleromancy (category Instances of Lang-el using second unnamed parameter)
    Some examples in the Hebrew Bible of the casting of lots as a means of determining God's will: In the Book of Leviticus 16:8, God commanded Moses, "And...
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    Torah (redirect from Torah (book))
    or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The...
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    Hoffmann, Leviticus 11:1); his term for "moral impurity" is טומאת הקדושות‎. Leviticus 16:16; see Shadal, Leviticus 16:16 Netziv, Leviticus 16:30 Meir...
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  • the book of Leviticus, and the subject of discussion in Rabbinic and Patristic literature. Azazel may also refer to: Azazel (Asimov), the subject of a short...
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  • variants in the Hebrew Bible found in the Book of Leviticus. Frequently used sigla (symbols and abbreviations) of Hebrew Bible manuscripts and editions include:...
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    Kedoshim (redirect from Leviticus 20)
    Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Leviticus. It constitutes Leviticus 19:1–20:27. The parashah tells of the laws of holiness and...
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    forms of scapegoat. Scapegoating has its origins in the scapegoat ritual of atonement described in chapter 16 of the Biblical Book of Leviticus, in which...
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    With sacrifice and priesthood established, chapters 11–15 in the book of Leviticus instruct the lay people on purity (or cleanliness). Eating certain...
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    Aaron (category Book of Leviticus people)
    Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, Joshua appears in the role of Moses' assistant while Aaron functions instead as the first high priest. The books of Exodus...
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    is used in biblical criticism to refer to Leviticus chapters 17–26, and sometimes passages in other books of the Pentateuch, especially Numbers and Exodus...
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