- 1 Leviticus 1 Α′ Leviticus 1 opens both the book and the sacrificial code (Lev 1–7) with the law of the whole burnt offering (ὁλοκαύτωμα). The narrative bridge from Exodus is deliberate: at v. PDF
- 2 Leviticus 2 Β′ Leviticus 2 is the cultic prescription (תּוֹרָה) for the grain offering, called in the LXX both θυσία (the generic 'sacrifice/offering', rendering מִנְחָה here) and δῶρον ('gift', rendering קָרְבָּן). PDF
- 3 Leviticus 3 Γ′ Leviticus 3 sets out the ritual of the θυσία σωτηρίου, the 'sacrifice of deliverance / well-being,' the LXX's rendering of Hebrew זֶבַח שְׁלָמִים (the 'peace-' or 'fellowship-offering'). PDF
- 4 Leviticus 4 Δ′ Leviticus 4 is the great chapter on the sin offering (θυσία περὶ ἁμαρτίας), the legislation governing atonement for sins committed unintentionally or in ignorance — the controlling category named at the outset by the adverb ἀκουσίως (vv. PDF
- 5 Leviticus 5 Ε′ A versification note is essential: in Rahlfs (following the Hebrew/MT chapter division) Leviticus 5 runs to twenty-six verses and so absorbs the trespass-and-restitution material that most English Bibles number as 6:1–7 (= MT 5:20–26). PDF
- 6 Leviticus 6 Ϛ′ A versification note is essential here: the LXX chapter-division differs from the Hebrew (MT) and English Bibles by seven verses. PDF
- 7 Leviticus 7 Ζ′ (Note that LXX Leviticus follows the Hebrew chapter division here, though the verse-numbering of the sacrificial torot diverges at points from later printed Hebrew Bibles.) Leviticus 7 completes the manual of offerings begun in chapters 1–6: it gives the law of the guilt/trespass offering (ὁ νόμος τοῦ … περὶ τῆς πλημμελείας, vv. PDF
- 8 Leviticus 8 Η′ Leviticus 8 is the narrative execution of the ordination liturgy commanded in Exodus 29: where Exod 29 is prescriptive ('you shall do…'), Lev 8 is performative ('and Moses did…'), and the LXX marks the correspondence with a chain of constative aorists (ἐνέδυσεν, ἔζωσεν, ἐπέθηκεν, ἔχρισεν, ἔσφαξεν, ἀνήνεγκεν). PDF
- 9 Leviticus 9 Θ′ Leviticus 9 narrates the eighth day (τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ὀγδόῃ, v. 1), the climactic culmination of the seven-day ordination of chapter 8: now Aaron, newly consecrated, performs the inaugural sacrificial service of the priesthood. PDF
- 10 Leviticus 10 Ι′ Leviticus 10 is the narrative hinge of the book: set immediately after the inaugural sacrifices of chapter 9, in which fire had gone out from the LORD and consumed the burnt offering (9:24), it opens with the catastrophic counter-scene in which the same divine fire consumes two priests. PDF
- 11 Leviticus 11 ΙΑ′ Leviticus 11 is the great dietary-law chapter (the Torah of clean and unclean creatures), structured by habitat: land animals defined by the double test of διχηλεῖν ('part the hoof') and ἀνάγειν μηρυκισμόν ('bring up the cud'), with the camel (κάμηλος), hare (δασύπους), hyrax (χοιρογρύλλιος), and pig (ὗς) named as the classic test-cases that fail the double criterion (vv. PDF
- 12 Leviticus 12 ΙΒ′ Leviticus 12 is a short but pivotal purity-law: eight verses regulating the impurity and blood-purification of a woman after childbirth. PDF
- 13 Leviticus 13 ΙΓ′ Leviticus 13 is the longest chapter in the book (59 verses) and constitutes the priestly diagnostic torah for the affection called ἁφὴ λέπρας — conventionally 'leprosy,' but in fact a broad category of scaly, discolouring skin- and surface-conditions (Hebrew צָרַעַת) that has no exact modern equivalent and is not the Hansen's disease of later usage. PDF
- 14 Leviticus 14 ΙΔ′ Leviticus 14 is the longest single chapter of the priestly purity legislation (57 verses), falling into two complementary halves: the ritual for cleansing a person healed of λέπρα (vv. PDF
- 15 Leviticus 15 ΙΕ′ Leviticus 15 is a tightly structured priestly torah on uncleanness arising from genital discharges, organized as a chiastic quartet bracketed by a divine commission (vv. PDF
- 16 Leviticus 16 ΙϚ′ Leviticus 16 is the theological summit of the book — the ritual of the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), to which the whole sacrificial system of chs. PDF
- 17 Leviticus 17 ΙΖ′ Leviticus 17 opens the so-called Holiness Code (chs. 17–26) and is governed throughout by a single concern: the sanctity of blood. PDF
- 18 Leviticus 18 ΙΗ′ Leviticus 18 stands at the heart of the so-called Holiness Code (Lev 17–26): a tightly structured chapter framed by paired exhortations (vv. 1–5; 24–30) around a central catalogue of forbidden sexual unions (vv. PDF
- 19 Leviticus 19 ΙΘ′ Leviticus 19 is the programmatic centre of the so-called Holiness Code (Lev 17–26): a dense mosaic of cultic, ethical, and social legislation framed by the imperative ἅγιοι ἔσεσθε, ὅτι ἐγὼ ἅγιος, κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὑμῶν ('You shall be holy, because I, the LORD your God, am holy', v. PDF
- 20 Leviticus 20 Κ′ Leviticus 20 is the penal counterpart to the prohibitions of chapter 18 within the so-called Holiness Code (Lev 17–26): where ch. 18 catalogues the forbidden acts, ch. PDF
- 21 Leviticus 21 ΚΑ′ Leviticus 21 belongs to the so-called Holiness Code (Lev 17–26) and legislates the special sanctity of the Aaronic priesthood. PDF
- 22 Leviticus 22 ΚΒ′ Leviticus 22 belongs to the Holiness Code (Lev 17–26) and unfolds in five movements: the purity required of priests who eat the holy gifts (τὰ ἅγια, vv. PDF
- 23 Leviticus 23 ΚΓ′ Leviticus 23 is the great festal calendar of the Pentateuch — αἱ ἑορταὶ κυρίου, κληταὶ ἅγιαι ('the feasts of the LORD, holy convocations', v. PDF
- 24 Leviticus 24 ΚΔ′ Leviticus 24 in the LXX falls into two cultic regulations framing a narrative law-case. First, the perpetual tending of the lamp: pure beaten olive oil (ἔλαιον ἐλάινον καθαρὸν κεκομμένον, v. PDF
- 25 Leviticus 25 ΚΕ′ Leviticus 25 is the longest legal chapter of the book (55 verses) and the charter of Israel's sacred economy of land and persons, delivered ἐν τῷ ὄρει Σινα (v. PDF
- 26 Leviticus 26 ΚϚ′ Leviticus 26 is the great peroration of the Holiness Code (Lev 17–26): the covenant sanctions in which YHWH sets before Israel the blessings of obedience and the curses of disobedience. PDF
- 27 Leviticus 27 ΚΖ′ Leviticus 27 is the appendix of the book: a self-contained legal supplement on vows (εὐχαί) and the dedications they entail, set apart from the covenant climax of ch. PDF