There is not much diversity then among the texts of Leviticus. Both the few significant variations and many minor ones are cited in the Notes. Mathews (CBQ 48 [1986] 198–99) contends that the legal nature of the texts accounts for their consistency; their use in the community required that they be standardized. The Hebrew name for the third book of the Pentateuch comes from an ancient custom of calling a book by its first word ויקרא wayyiqrāʾ, “and he called.” Its name