Sentence examples for Leviticus from high-quality English sources.

• (Leviticus 10:10)

• The first five books are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

• Abitbol knew that at least one member of Westboro had committed a sin that Leviticus also deems a capital crime.

• Her new book is a history and examination of bestiality and zoophilia, tracing our changing understandings from Leviticus, to modern psychiatry, the animal rights movement, and beyond.

• Halakhic Midrashim are exegetic commentaries on the legal content of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

• Although Leviticus is basically a book of laws, it also contains some narrative (chapters 8–9, 10:1–7, 10:16–20, and 24:10–14).

• Here were found fragments of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Isaiah in addition to a substantially preserved Minor Prophets scroll.

• A fifth site, at Masada, produced a Hebrew manuscript of Ecclesiasticus (c. 75 bce) and fragments of Psalms, Leviticus, and Genesis.

Use Leviticus in a sentence.

• In particular, they oppose blood transfusions, because of the scriptural admonition against the consumption of blood (Leviticus 3:17).

• …the Old Testament: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18), but Jesus filled this commandment with a new, twofold meaning.

• In the final chapter of Leviticus (27), the P material is resumed with a presentation of the rules for the commutation of votive gifts and tithes.

• The story, begun in Genesis and continued in Exodus and Leviticus, does not reach its conclusion until Israel successfully occupies the Promised Land.

• Cave 11 yielded a Psalter containing the last third of the book in a form different from that of the Masoretic text, as well as a manuscript of Leviticus.

• He cried “blasphemy” and rent his own garments, a dramatic sign of mourning that the Hebrew Bible prohibits the high priest from making (Leviticus 21:10).

• The book of Leviticus in the Old Testament described quarantine regulations and sanitary practices that were used to prevent the spread of leprosy and plague.

• This hypothesis suggests that Leviticus properly belongs to a larger literary unit that is variously understood to include the first four, five, or six books of the Old Testament.

Leviticus sentence examples

• When the deceased’s brother was already married it avoided problems of polygamy, and it took notice of the prohibition in the Law of Moses regarding relations with a brother’s wife (Leviticus 18:16).

• The Priestly Code, containing a major section known as the Code of Holiness (in Leviticus, chapters 17–26), is found in various parts of Exodus, all of Leviticus, and most of Numbers.

• This is because not all members of society can reasonably be expected to accept Leviticus as stating an authoritative set of political values, nor can a religious premonition be a common standard for evaluating public policy.

• The biblical practice of driving the scapegoat from the community, described in Leviticus 16, gave a name to this widespread custom, which was said by the French intellectual René Girard to explain the basis of all human societies.