Chapters of the Bible

God gives a broad code of moral and ethical laws, commanding Israel to "Be holy, because I, the Lord your God, am holy." This includes honesty, justice for the poor, and loving one's neighbor.

God establishes severe penalties, including death, for acts like sacrificing children to Molech, consulting mediums, dishonoring parents, and all forms of sexual perversion.

God gives specific laws defining the holiness required of priests concerning marriage, mourning practices, and avoidance of physical blemishes to ensure their fitness for sacred duty.

God provides rules for handling consecrated offerings, ensuring that anyone who is ceremonially unclean or is an outsider does not eat the sacred food, lest they incur guilt.

God details the calendar of the seven annual sacred festivals (feasts) Israel must observe, including the Sabbath, Passover, Firstfruits, and the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).

God gives laws for the Tabernacle's maintenance: the arrangement of the Bread of the Presence and the oil for the lampstand. A blasphemer is stoned, establishing legal precedent.

God establishes the Sabbath Year (land resting every seven years) and the Year of Jubilee (every fifty years), when all inherited land is returned, and all Israelite slaves are freed.

God lists the blessings that will result from Israel's obedience (rain, peace, victory) and the severe curses that will result from their disobedience (disease, drought, famine, and exile).

God provides laws concerning the redemption of dedicated property and people, establishing the monetary values for vows and how tithes of the land and livestock are to be calculated.

God commands Moses to take a census of all fighting men (age 20 and older) from the twelve tribes of Israel. The Levites are specifically excluded from military service but are numbered separately.

God specifies the military organization and placement of the twelve tribes around the Tabernacle in the wilderness, assigning three tribes to encamp on each of the four sides.

God counts the Levites, assigning them to the service of the Tabernacle and its priesthood, confirming they will serve as substitutes for the firstborn of the other tribes.