Lévitique

The Lévitique is one of the five books of the Pentateuque in the Old Testament among Christians or Torah at the Jews. It owes its name at the end “Levite”, Hebrew priest, itself resulting from the tribe of Lévi. He speaks about the sacerdotal duties in Israel. He stresses the holiness of God and the code according to which its people could live to become holy. Its goal is to teach the moral precepts and the religious truths of the law of Brace by means of the ritual.

Until recently, one thought that Moïse was the author of Lévitique. Although this position is always held by certain tendencies of Christianity, recent research in Theology and Archeology shows that it is not the case. The study of the Hebrew in the text shows several different styles of writing, and the study of the contents shows several theological concerns, which are not always reconcilable. It is thus reasonable to think that Lévitique, like the whole of Pentateuque, was written by several authors, and it is not very probable that Moïse formed part of it.

This book includes/understands 27 chapters, which report the talk with Moïse laws and rites of God.

Summary

Chapters 1 to 7 explain the ordinances of the sacrifice.

Chapters 8 to 10 describe the ritual observed at the time of the dedication of the sacrificateurs.

Chapter 11 explains what one can or cannot eat and what is pure or impure.

Chapter 12 speaks about the state of the women after the childbirth.

Chapters 13 to 15 are relative laws with the ceremonial impurity:

Chapter 13: human Leprosy, tumor, scab and spot,
Chapter 14: purification of the Leprous,
Chapter 15: sexual impurities.

Chapter 16 contains the ritual to respect the day of the atonements.

Chapters 17 to 26 contain a treating code of laws of the religious and social observances.

Chapter 27 explains why the Lord ordered from Israel to devote to the Lord his harvests and his herds the large one and of smaller live-stock.

Comment on Lévitique

The comment on Lévitique in the tradition of the rabbinical Judaïsme is the Sifra, also called Torat Cohanim.

Rabbi Ishmaël exposed thirteen principles Herméneutique in the Baraïta, which is in introduction to the Sifra.

The book is used for comprehension of the Christian Liturgie: in the theology of the mass, the sacrifice is interpreted as being the Eucharistie, i.e. the offering of Jesus on the cross.

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Translations on Wikisource

Version Louis Ségond (1910)
Version John Nelson Darby (1872)
Version Canon Cramp (1923)

Book of Lévitique, translation in French by the Canon Cramp, numerical edition by Richard Bourret, search engine

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