and Deuteronomy, however, in containing technical regulations which the priests were to apply to the conduct of worship and the regulating of the community’s life in Israel. Leviticus is a well-organized reference manual for the Old Testament priesthood, and consists of two principal divisions or themes which have as their pivot the sixteenth chapter, dealing with regulations governing the annual day of atonement. The first fifteen chapters deal broadly with sacrificial principles and procedures
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