Leviticus comes to the people whom God had, by grace alone, rescued from Egypt, but who had actually sought to reject God and who had constantly despised the covenant which God had offered them. No wonder they needed to be brought back week in week out to realize their waywardness and utter dependence upon grace alone. The first words of Leviticus express a very marvellous reality—that the living God actually revealed certain elements in his great cosmic plan of redemption to small human beings in