Leviticus

27 chapters

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1. 1Divers rites in offering holocausts, as well of cattle, 14. as of birds.
2. 2How to offer flour, 4. loaves, baked, with oil and incense, without leaven or honey, 12. also first fruits. 13. And salt in every oblation.
3. 3How the pacifique hosts must be offered of beeves, 6. sheep, 7. lambs, 12. and goats.
4. 4How a Priest, 13. the multitude, 22. a Prince, 27. or any one of the people, sinning of ignorance, must offer hosts.
5. 5Of hosts, for the sin of concealing another's perjury. 2. for uncleanness. 4. for vain swearing. 14. for error in exercising holy rites. 17. and for any sin committed by ignorance.
6. 6Oblation for sin wittingly committed. 8. The manner of offering holocaust. 12. Continual fire to be kept in the Altar. 14. The sacrifices which Priests shall offer at their Consecration. 24. In general of hosts for sin, and who shall eat of the same and where.
7. 7The manner of offering hosts for offences. 11. and of pacifique victims for thanksgiving. 22. No fat, 26. nor blood is to be eaten.
8. 8Moyses consecrateth Aaron high Priest. 13. and his sons Priests, 33. continuing in the tabernacle seven days and nights.
9. 9Sacrifices for sin, 12. and of holocausts, 18. and pacifiques are offered: 22. and Aaron stretching forth his hand blesseth the people.
10. 10Nadab and Abiu the sons of Aaron, for offering strange fire, are burnt to death, and cast out of the camp. 6. for whom the people mourn, but not the Priests. 8. Priests are forbid to drink wine, when they enter into the tabernacle. 12. and are commanded to eat the residue of oblations in the holy place. 16. Which thing sometime parts they omitted, and are excused, being sorrowful for that which happened to Nadab and Abiu.
11. 11The distinction of clean and unclean in beasts, fish, birds, and other things. 43. With commandment to be holy, and impolluted.
12. 12The law of women's purification that bear children. *(The second and third Lessons on Candlemas day.)*
13. 13The law concerning leprosy in men, 47. and in garments.
14. 14Sacrifices for cleansing leprosy in men, 33. the manner of viewing whether leprosy be in a house or no, 40. and of cleansing it.
15. 15The law of unclean issues in men, 19. and in women.
16. 16When and how the high Priest must enter into the Sanctuary. 14. How he shall expiate (or reconcile) the same, 16. and the Tabernacle, 18. and the Altar. 20. How he shall offer a live goat, and send him into the wilderness. 19. And all must celebrate the feast of expiation, or cleansing from sins.
17. 17All sacrifices must be offered at the door of the Tabernacle. 7. with special prohibition of Idolatry. 10. None must eat blood. 15. whosoever eateth carrion flesh is contaminate, and must be washed.
18. 18Marriage prohibited in certain degrees of consanguinity and affinity. 18. And divers carnal, and execrable sins committed in other nations, are strictly forbidden.
19. 19Divers Moral, Ceremonial, and Judicial precepts are briefly recited.
20. 20Whosoever giveth of his seed to Moloch must be stoned to death. 6. All that decline to Magic, 9. curse their parents, 10. commit adultery, certain incest, or bestiality shall die. 19. Other incest is deprived of children. 22. The Israelites also shall be cast out of the Land, if they commit such sins.
21. 21At what funerals Priests may not be present. 7. What women they may not marry, 9. a priest's daughter committing fornication must be burnt. 10. The high Priest shall not uncover his head, nor rent his garment, nor be present at any funeral, nor at all go forth of the holy place. 13. When he marrieth he must take a virgin. 16. None that hath a blemish in his body (though he be of Aaron's stock) shall minister in the Sanctuary, nor approach to the Altar.
22. 22Who may eat of sanctified things. 17. And what things may be offered.
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