The holiness handbook — offerings, priests, and a God who dwells among His people.
"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as ______: I am the LORD."
'Love thy neighbour as thyself' — the command Jesus ranked second only to loving God — first appears here, tucked into Leviticus 19.
Leviticus is where many read-the-Bible-in-a-year plans go to die. Push through: it's the book that explains why the whole sacrificial story matters.
The Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16 gave us the word 'scapegoat' — one goat sacrificed, one sent into the wilderness carrying the people's sins.
The phrase 'be holy, for I am holy' echoes through the book — and Peter quotes it word for word in the New Testament.