Chapters of the Bible

God provides the rules for the Peace Offering and the conditions under which meat may be eaten. He strictly commands the consumption of fat and blood, as the blood is the life of the animal.

Moses publicly consecrates Aaron and his sons as priests, following the rituals established by God, including washing, anointing with oil, and performing the seven-day ordination sacrifices.

On the eighth day, Aaron performs his first official act as High Priest, offering sacrifices for himself and the people. The glory of the Lord appears, and fire consumes the offering.

Nadab and Abihu, two of Aaron's sons, offer unauthorized (strange) fire before the Lord. God consumes them with fire, demonstrating the severe holiness and consequences of disobedience.

God details the laws of clean and unclean animals for consumption, listing animals, birds, and sea creatures that are permissible (kosher) and those that are forbidden.

God establishes the laws concerning a woman after childbirth, requiring a period of ceremonial uncleanness followed by a burnt offering and a sin offering for her purification.

God provides lengthy and detailed laws for diagnosing and isolating those afflicted with skin diseases (often mistranslated as leprosy) and how priests must examine them for quarantine.

God outlines the elaborate and two-stage process for the cleansing of a healed leper, involving birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, followed by bathing and specific sacrifices.

God details laws concerning various bodily discharges (such as menstrual issues or infections), emphasizing that anything touched by the unclean person or item is also considered defiled.

God institutes the solemn ceremony of the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). Aaron enters the Holy of Holies only on this day to atone for all the sins of the nation.

God strictly commands that all animals be slaughtered at the Tabernacle altar. He forbids the consumption of blood, declaring that the life is in the blood and it is the only means of atonement.

God forbids various acts of sexual immorality, including incest, adultery, bestiality, and homosexual acts, warning that the nations committing these sins will be judged and exiled.