Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Leviticus.
Community and Covenant Quotes
The Lord summoned Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying: Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When any of you bring an offering of livestock to the Lord, you shall bring...
Society and Class Quotes
It shall be cut up into its parts, with its head and its suet, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood that is on the fire on the altar; but the entrails and the legs shall be washed with wat...
Rules and Order Quotes
No grain offering that you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you must not turn any leaven or honey into smoke as an offering by fire to the Lord. You may bring them to the Lord as an...
Morality and Ethics Quotes
If anyone of the house of Israel or of the aliens who reside among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and will cut that person off from the people. For the...
Sin Quotes
Speak to the people of Israel, saying: When anyone sins unintentionally in any of the Lord's commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them: If it is the anointed priest who sin...
Sex Quotes
He washed the entrails and the legs and, with the burnt offering, turned them into smoke on the altar. (NKJV 9:14)And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on...
Foreigners and the Poor Quotes
This shall be a statute to you forever: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall deny yourselves, and shall do no work, neither the citizen nor the alien who resides among you...
The Supernatural Quotes
But its entrails and its legs shall be washed with water. Then the priest shall turn the whole into smoke on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the Lord. (NRSV 1...