Leviticus Devotionals
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- Leviticus 1: Accepted in Another's Place
The LORD's first words from the tent are about how someone may come near him (1:1-2). A worshiper brings an animal without blemish to the entrance of the tent and lays his hand on…
- Leviticus 2: Seasoned with the Covenant
The grain offering involves no blood at all. It is fine flour with oil and frankincense, offered as flour, baked in an oven, cooked on a griddle, or prepared in a pan (2:1, 4-7).…
- Leviticus 3: The First Portion Belongs to God
The peace offering is the most flexible sacrifice so far. It may be male or female, from the herd or the flock (3:1, 6, 12). The worshiper lays his hand on its head, and its blood…
- Leviticus 4: Sins We Never Noticed
Leviticus 4 deals with unintentional sin, wrong done without realizing it. The chapter moves down through the nation: the anointed priest, the whole congregation, a leader, and…
- Leviticus 5: An Offering Within Reach
Leviticus 5 names wrongs that are easy to slide past: keeping silent when you should testify, touching something unclean without realizing it, making a careless oath (5:1-4). Once…
- Leviticus 6: A Fire Kept Burning
The chapter opens with sins against a neighbor: lying about something left in your care, extortion, keeping lost property and swearing falsely about it. God calls each of these…
- Leviticus 7: Thanks Brought by Hand
The peace offering returns in chapter 7, now with what happens to the meat. A worshiper giving thanks brings it with loaves and cakes, and the meat must be eaten that same day…
- Leviticus 8: Made Ready to Serve
Moses does exactly as the LORD commanded, a phrase the chapter repeats again and again (8:4, 9, 13, 17, 21, 29, 36). Aaron and his sons do almost nothing themselves. They are…
- Leviticus 9: Glory After the Offering
After seven days of ordination, the eighth day arrives, and Moses tells the people why everything is happening: so that the glory of the LORD may appear to them (9:6). Aaron…
- Leviticus 10: When Holy Fire Falls
Right after the joy of chapter 9, Nadab and Abihu, two of Aaron's sons, offer fire the LORD had not commanded, and fire comes out from his presence and consumes them (10:1-2). It…
- Leviticus 11: Holiness at Every Meal
A long list fills this chapter: land animals that chew the cud and have split hooves, water creatures with fins and scales, birds to avoid, insects that may be eaten (11:3, 9, 13,…
- Leviticus 12: Born Under This Law
Leviticus 12 is a short law about giving birth. A mother is ceremonially unclean for a time, unable to touch holy things or enter the sanctuary, and the period is longer after a…
- Leviticus 13: Waiting Outside the Camp
The priest in this chapter works like a careful examiner. He looks closely at each swelling, rash, or spot. If he is unsure, he isolates the person and looks again after seven…
- Leviticus 14: Brought Back Into the Camp
Chapter 13 left a person living alone outside the camp. Chapter 14 begins with the priest going out to him (14:3). If the disease has healed, one bird is killed over fresh water,…
- Leviticus 15: A Holy God Living Close
This chapter speaks plainly about bodily discharges, some unusual and some an ordinary part of life for men and women. Many are cleared by washing and waiting until evening…
- Leviticus 16: Sins Carried Far Away
After the death of Nadab and Abihu, even Aaron may not enter freely behind the veil, because God appears in the cloud above the mercy seat (16:1-2). Once a year he comes with…
- Leviticus 17: Life Given for Life
Sacrifice is gathered to one place in this chapter. Israelites who had been offering animals in the open fields, even to goat demons, must now bring them to the entrance of the…
- Leviticus 18: Boundaries Set by a Rescuer
Leviticus 18 begins and ends by naming God as the LORD their God (18:2, 30). Before any command, he reminds Israel whose they are. They must not copy the customs of Egypt or of…
- Leviticus 19: Holiness Looks Like Neighbor Love
The call at the heart of the book opens this chapter: God's people must be holy, because he is (19:2). What follows is surprisingly down to earth. Leave the edges of the field and…
- Leviticus 20: Set Apart to Be His
Leviticus 20 attaches penalties to many of the sins named in chapter 18, and they are severe. Giving a child to Molech, turning to mediums, cursing father or mother, adultery, and…
- Leviticus 21: The Priest Who Has No Flaw
The priests are held to a higher standard than everyone else. They may not make themselves unclean for the dead except for close family, and the high priest not even for his…
- Leviticus 22: The Gift God Accepts
After the priests and the holy food, this chapter turns to the animals themselves. Whether a gift fulfills a vow or is given freely, it must be without defect to be accepted on…
- Leviticus 23: A Calendar Built Around God
Israel's year is laid out here. It begins with the weekly Sabbath, a day of complete rest (23:3), and moves through Passover, the firstfruits, the Feast of Weeks, trumpets, the…
- Leviticus 24: A Name Kept Holy
The chapter opens inside the tent, where the lamps burn continually before the LORD and twelve loaves are set out every Sabbath on behalf of Israel (24:2-8). Then the scene moves…
- Leviticus 25: Liberty Sounded Through the Land
Every seventh year the fields were to rest, and every fiftieth year a horn would sound on the Day of Atonement to proclaim liberty throughout the land (25:4, 9-10). Land returned…
- Leviticus 26: The Yoke Bars Broken
Two paths are set before Israel. If they walk in God's statutes, he promises rain, abundant harvests, and peace (26:4-10). Best of all, he promises to live in their midst and walk…
- Leviticus 27: Already His Before We Give
Leviticus closes with vows, voluntary promises to give a person, an animal, a house, or a field to the LORD. Each has a set value (27:3-7), and animals, houses, and fields can be…