can seem awfully distant, mundane, and irrelevant to our world today. So what can Leviticus offer to the modern reader of the Bible, given that so much of what it says has been eclipsed by teaching in the New Testament? Plenty. Let’s start by discussing the original purposes and lessons that the book had for the ancient Israelites, and then move on to see what we can learn from this seemingly distant, uninteresting book of the Bible. If you are at all like me, you may be pleasantly surprised at what