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Leviticus

27 Chapters · Douay-Rheims Bible · Old Testament

About This Book

This book is called Leviticus, because it treats of the offices, ministries, rites and ceremonies of the priests and Levites. The Hebrews call it Vaicra, from the word with which it begins. (For more information, see the articles LEVITICUS and PENTATEUCH in the Catholic Encyclopedia.)

Chapter Directory

  1. Chapter 1Of holocausts or burnt offerings.
  2. Chapter 2Of offerings of flour, and firstfruits.
  3. Chapter 3Of peace offerings.
  4. Chapter 4Of offerings for sins of ignorance.
  5. Chapter 5Of other sacrifices for sins.
  6. Chapter 6Oblation for sins of injustice: ordinances concerning the holocausts and the perpetual fire: the sacrifices of the priests, and the sin offerings.
  7. Chapter 7Of sacrifices for trespasses and thanks offerings. No fat nor blood is to be eaten.
  8. Chapter 8Moses consecrates Aaron and his sons.
  9. Chapter 9Aaron offers sacrifice for himself and the people. Fire comes from the Lord upon the altar.
  10. Chapter 10Nadab and Abiu for offering strange fire, are burnt by fire. Priests are forbidden to drink wine, when they enter into the tabernacle. The law of eating the holy things.
  11. Chapter 11The distinction of clean and unclean animals.
  12. Chapter 12The purification of women after childbirth.
  13. Chapter 13The law concerning leprosy in men, and in garments.
  14. Chapter 14The rites of sacrifices in cleansing the leprosy. Leprosy in houses.
  15. Chapter 15Other legal uncleannesses.
  16. Chapter 16When and how the high priest must enter into the sanctuary. The feast of expiation.
  17. Chapter 17No sacrifices to be offered but at the door of the tabernacle: a prohibition of blood.
  18. Chapter 18Marriage is prohibited in certain degrees of kindred: and all unnatural lusts.
  19. Chapter 19Divers ordinances, partly moral, partly ceremonial or judicial.
  20. Chapter 20Divers crimes to be punished with death.
  21. Chapter 21Ordinances relating to the priests.
  22. Chapter 22Who may eat the holy things: and what things may be offered.
  23. Chapter 23Holy days to be kept.
  24. Chapter 24The oil for the lamps. The loaves of proposition. The punishment of blasphemy.
  25. Chapter 25The law of the seventh and of the fiftieth year of jubilee.
  26. Chapter 26God's promises to them that keep his commandments. And the many punishments with which he threatens transgressors.
  27. Chapter 27Of vows and tithes.

Edition Record

Book
Leviticus
Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible
Old Testament
First published at Douay in 1609
New Testament
First published at Rheims in 1582
Revision and Notes
Bishop Richard Challoner, 1749
Historical Imprimatur
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, 1 September 1899