lasting fulfillment: “Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD” (18:5). Leviticus also shows how God expected his people to live in community with each other during that era. “Blood” occurs more than sixty times in Leviticus. Readers are overwhelmed with the truth that in God’s design, blood outpoured through ritual sacrifice is the key to atoning for sins (17:11). This is critical for understanding the