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Leviticus
This book is called Leviticus, because it treats of the offices, ministries, rites and ceremonies of the priests and Levites. The Hebrews call it Vaicra, from the word with which it begins. (For more information, see the articles LEVITICUS and PENTATEUCH in the Catholic Encyclopedia.)
Chapter 1. Of holocausts or burnt offerings.
Chapter 2. Of offerings of flour, and firstfruits.
Chapter 3. Of peace offerings.
Chapter 4. Of offerings for sins of ignorance.
Chapter 5. Of other sacrifices for sins.
Chapter 6. Oblation for sins of injustice: ordinances concerning the holocausts and the perpetual fire: the sacrifices of the priests, and the sin offerings.
Chapter 7. Of sacrifices for trespasses and thanks offerings. No fat nor blood is to be eaten.
Chapter 8. Moses consecrateth Aaron and his sons.
Chapter 9. Aaron offereth sacrifice for himself and the people. Fire cometh from the Lord upon the altar.
Chapter 10. Nadab and Abiu for offering strange fire, are burnt by fire. Priests are forbidden to drink wine, when they enter into the tabernacle. The law of eating the holy things.
Chapter 11. The distinction of clean and unclean animals.
Chapter 12. The purification of women after childbirth.
Chapter 13. The law concerning leprosy in men, and in garments.
Chapter 14. The rites of sacrifices in cleansing the leprosy. Leprosy in houses.
Chapter 15. Other legal uncleannesses.
Chapter 16. When and how the high priest must enter into the sanctuary. The feast of expiation.
Chapter 17. No sacrifices to be offered but at the door of the tabernacle: a prohibition of blood.
Chapter 18. Marriage is prohibited in certain degrees of kindred: and all unnatural lusts.
Chapter 19. Divers ordinances, partly moral, partly ceremonial or judicial.
Chapter 20. Divers crimes to be punished with death.
Chapter 21. Ordinances relating to the priests.
Chapter 22. Who may eat the holy things: and what things may be offered.
Chapter 23. Holy days to be kept.
Chapter 24. The oil for the lamps. The loaves of proposition. The punishment of blasphemy.
Chapter 25. The law of the seventh and of the fiftieth year of jubilee.
Chapter 26. God's promises to them that keep his commandments. And the many punishments with which he threatens transgressors.
Chapter 27. Of vows and tithes.
