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LEVITICUS – LESSON ELEVEN

(Chapters 23-25)

XI. LAWS CONCERNING HOLY DAYS AND SEASONS: WEEKLY, MONTHLY, ANNUALLY, SEPTENNIALLY AND EVERY HALF-CENTURY (Chapters 23-25)

A. Law of weekly Sabbath (23:1-3)

 1. Gathering for holy purposes

 2. Do no manner of work.

B. Law of Passover (23: 4-8)

 1. Observed in first month and fourteenth day – Jehovah’s Passover.

 2. Beginning fifteenth day for a week – unleavened bread – feast of unleavened bread.

 3. Offerings made by fire

 4. First and seventh-day gatherings for holy purposes

 5. No work of labor

C. Law of season of first fruits – wave offering (23:9-14)

 1. Bring sheaf of first-fruits to priest – waved before Jehovah.

 2. He-lamb as burnt offering

 3. Meal offering

 4. Drink offering

 5. No eating till first-fruit offered to God

D. Law of seven sabbaths plus a day following sheaf wave-offering (Pentecost) (23:15-21)

 1. Wave-offering of two leavened loaves and two he-lambs

 2. Seven lambs, one young bullock, and two rams offered as burnt offering.

 3. He-goat as sin offering

 4. Meal offering

 5. Drink offering

 6. Gathering for holy purposes – no work or labor

E. Law of reaping from the land (23:22)

F. Law governing the days and feasts of the seventh month (23:23-44)

 1. First day of month – blowing of trumpets

     a. No work of labor

     b. Offerings made by fire

 2. Tenth day of month – day of atonement

     a. Fasting

     b. Solemn rest – a sabbath

 3. Fifteenth day of month – feast of tabernacles

     a.  For seven days

     b. Daily offerings made of firs (cf. Num. 29:12-40)

     c. Holy gatherings – no work of labor  

     d. Followed when fruit of land gathered – time of rejoicing

     e. Dwell in booths – branches of trees – reminder of experiences in wilderness under the guiding hand of God.

G. Law concerning the fuel for the lamps of the candlestick (24: 1-4)

 1. Children of Israel provide pure olive oil.

 2. Aaron to keep it in order from evening till morning.

H. Law concerning the baked cakes (Showbread) (24:5-9)

 1. Twelve baked cakes – two rows of six each

 2. Pure frankincense on each row – for a memorial-burned each week on altar of incense.

I. Man stoned to death for blasphemy (24:10-16, 23)

 1. A son of Israelitish woman (Shelomith) and Egyptian man

 2. Blasphemed name of Jehovah

 3. All the congregation stones the man outside of camp.

J. Laws concerning murder and justice (24:17-22)

 1. Murderer put to death

 2. Kill beast – restore a beast – life for life

 3. Cause blemish in neighbor – breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth

 4. Same law for home-born as sojourner

K. Laws of seventh year (25:1-7; 17-22)

 1. No sowing, no pruning in seventh year

 2. Shall not reap for gain – land is food for people and beast

 3. In sixth year, God will provide harvest for three years.

L. Laws of year of jubilee (25:8-16, 23-55)

 1. Every fifty years

 2. Liberty proclaimed – land returned and hired servants released

    a. Loud trumpet sounded

 3. Neither sowing nor reaping – may eat of land

 4. Equitable exchange in returning land – based on harvest potential

 5. Land is Jehovah’s not to be owned forever

 6. Man’s own kin can redeem land when he has waxed poor and forced to sell.

 7. House within walled city and only be redeemed within a year after sell – not returned at Jubilee.

    a. Houses sol outside walled cities – returned at Jubilee

 8. Exception for Levites: houses in city can be redeemed any time; property outside city never sold – always belongs to      Levites.

 9. Poor Hebrew becomes hired servant – not slave

    a. Relative of Hebrew can redeem his poor relative form rich stranger or sojourner.

    b. Equitable settlement based on years before next Jubilee.  

QUESTIONS:

1. What are the “holy convocations”?

2. What is another phrase describing the “feast of Passover”?

3. After reaping the harvest, what was to be done before eating of the produce?

4. What is the feast of 23:15-16 known as in the New Testament?

5. What was waved before Jehovah at this feast?

6. What are the three important  days and feasts of the seventh month?

7. What was the meaning of dwelling in booths?

8. Did the feast of tabernacles last for just a day?

9. What does “afflict your souls” mean in 23:27?

10. “Who” and “what” kept the lamps on the candlestick burning?

11. What did the twelve baked cakes in the sanctuary symbolize?

12. As for content and weight, how substantial were these baked cakes?

13. Who was to eat of these cakes?

14. What did a son of Shelomith do?

15. What punishment did the son receive?

16. Show by chapter 24 that there is a difference between murder and capital punishment:

17. Every seventh year, what would the people do with the land?

18. When did the year of Jubilee occur?

19. Principally what three things occurred in that year?

20. Could a Hebrew sell himself out as a slave to his brethren?

21. How were the release of land and hired-servants carried out equitably?

LEVITICUS – LESSON  TWELVE

(Chapters 26-27)

XII. BLESSINGS AND CURSES AND LEGISLATION CONCERNING VOWS (Chapters 26-27)

A. Law concerning idolatry, the sabbaths, and the sanctuary (26:1-2)

B. The blessings of obedience (26:3-13)

 1. Land will produce abundantly.

2. Land will enjoy peace – no fear.

3. Wild beasts to cease from the land.

4. Enemies chased and conquered – few over many.

5. People will multiply.

6. God will walk among them – be their God.  

C. The curses of disobedience (26:14-39)

1. Terror – being physically consumed

2. Enemies eat the seed you sow  – not you who plant.

3. Smitten before you enemies – you will flee when no one is pursuing.

4. If no change – you will suffer “seven times” more.  

5. Land will not produce increase.

6. Wild beasts will destroy children and cattle.

7. People will be made few .

8. Pestilence of sword and famine

9. Desolate land – weak and scattered people

D. The graciousness that ensues upon repentance (26:40-45)

1. God will remember the land.

2. God will remember His covenant with His people – people not rejected nor totally destroyed.

E. Concluding statement of law being given to Moses from Sinai (26:46; 27:34)

F. Appendix – law concerning vows and tithes to God (27:1-33)

            1. Vows dedicating people unto God – their redemption (vs. 2-8)

            2. Vows dedicating animals unto God – their redemption (vs. 9-13)

            3. Vows dedicating houses unto God – their redemption (vs.14-15)

            4. Vows dedicating parts of land unto God – their redemption (vs. 16- 25).

            5. Tithes unto God not redeemed – already belong to God (vs. 16-33)

                a. First born of animals

                b. Devoted things – man, beast, field

                c. Corn and fruits

                d. Flock

 

QUESTIONS:

1. Is God pleased with only WHO we worship, and not HOW we worship?

2. Specifically, how would God’s people prosper in the land if they obeyed God?

3. Why was eating “old store” part of the blessings?

4. How is 26:11-12 fulfilled in the New Testament Christian?  

5. What “terror” would be appointed for the disobedient people?

6. What does being chastised “seven times” mean?

7. How is the curse of famine manifested?

8. How was chapter 26, verse 33  fulfilled?

9. God would be gracious if the people ____________________________________.

10. How was God’s graciousness manifested to such a people?

11. What four persons or things are covered as being vowed unto God?

12. What was the redemption price for a two- month- old son dedicated unto God?

13. Could  and unclean beast be vowed unto God ?

14. What was the price paid for redeeming one’s house that was sanctified to God?

15. How was a piece of land valued when being dedicated unto God ?

16. What could not be redeemed?

17. Who is the “devoted” man whom cannot be redeemed?

18. Could one redeem his tithe?

19. From where did God give Moses the Law?