(n.) The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conservative evangelicals often quote a verse in Leviticus which describes sexual relations between men as an “abomination”.
(2) I wouldn’t be surprised if he takes the passage in Leviticus 18:22 – “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman.
(3) The attitude expressed in Leviticus, that it was an abomination, was the order of the day."
(4) The Biblical verse "If a woman emits semen and bears a manchild" (Leviticus 12:2) is interpreted by the Talmudic Sages and more recent Jewish sources to mean that if a woman emits her "semen" first, she will bear a male child but if the man emits his semen first, she will bear a female child.
(5) And you think of the teenage years, of defiance for defiance’s sake, of assertive mockery and the contempt of selective deafness, of constant jockeying for power in a relationship suddenly destabilized – of this fathers-and-sons thing that stretches back 152 years to Turgenev and a further 2,500 years to Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
(6) Christ Fellowship’s employment application also demands that applicants certify that they are not “a practicing homosexual in accordance with scriptures (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, Romans 1;26-27, I Corinthians 6:9-10, I Timothy 1:10) and do not engage in an intimate sexual relationship with anyone other than my legal spouse”.
(7) No mention of amphibians, one of those nasty ambiguities that Leviticus hates so much, both one thing and another (which makes any combination in a single thing unclean: clothes made of two kinds of fabric, animals that breed with other species), but the amphibians would surely have decided to take the watery route to survival.
(8) Particularly the food-statute, we find in the bible (Leviticus chapter 11 and Deuteronomium chapter 14), demonstrated education of health already, in the antiquity.
(9) As far back as Leviticus, the Old Testament God actively forbade people to seek out mediums.
(10) Leviticus is big on diseases, talking about illness as a punishment from God and the need for cleanliness.
Pentateuch
Definition:
(n.) The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was perfectly fine – indeed strongly encouraged throughout the Pentateuch – to kill Canaanites, Midianites, Jebusites, Hivites etc, especially if they had the misfortune to live in the Promised Lebensraum.