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The Message of Leviticus: Free to Be Holy is unavailable, but you can change that!

For most Christians today, there is no message of the book of Leviticus, for it often goes unread. Yet Leviticus was the first priority in Jewish instruction of the law of Moses. Jesus and His hearers knew Leviticus well and took its teachings to heart. The Documentary Hypothesis (separate JEDP portions later redacted) that reigned supreme over Pentateuchal studies for most of the twentieth...

forbidden (4:1). This obviously catches a fair range of sin in its net, though not all. From what follows, it is clear that one major concern is failure in the performance of religious duty, through either negligence or ignorance. But this offering also embraces failure to observe God’s ethical law. This initial statement is not elaborated further in chapter 4, but the opening verses of chapter 5 present a number of specific examples that are intended, presumably, to illustrate the general principle.
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