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Table 4.C Outline of Leviticus

  1. Laws of sacrifices (1-7)
    1. Whole burnt offering (1)
    2. Grain offerings (2)
    3. Peace (fellowship) offering (3)
    4. Purification (sin) offering (4:1-5:13)
    5. Reparation (restitution) offering (5:14-6:7)
    6. Instructions to priests (6:8-7:38)
  2. Ordination rites of the priests (8-10)
    1. Ordination of priests (8)
    2. Aaron's high priesthood (9)
    3. Nadab and Abihu's unholy fire (10)
  3. Laws of purity (11-16)
    1. Clean and unclean animals (11)
    2. Purification after childbirth (12)
    3. Leprosy (13-14)
    4. Bodily discharges (15)
    5. Day of atonement (16)
  4. Holiness Code (17-26)
    1. Slaughter of animals (17)
    2. Forbidden sexual relations (18)
    3. Living a holy life (19)
    4. Penalties for unholiness (20)
    5. Instructions to priests (21-22)
    6. Sacred calendar (23)
    7. Miscellaneous priestly laws (24)
    8. Sabbatical year and year of jubilee (25)
    9. Blessings and curses (26)
  5. Appendix on religious vows (27)

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