Lev.17-Lev.26
11 entries reference this passage.
- eventHammurabi’s Code
About 1754 BC, three centuries before the Sinai Law, Hammurabi of Babylon issued a stele of 282 case laws. The find shows the legal climate …
- customsDay of Atonement
Yom Kippur — the most solemn day of the year. The high priest enters the Most Holy Place to sprinkle blood on the mercy seat, and a second g…
- customsFeast of Firstfruits
On the day after the Sabbath of Passover week, the priest waves a sheaf of the first cut barley before the Lord. The first of the harvest be…
- customsFeast of Unleavened Bread
The seven-day festival joined to Passover. From 15 to 21 Nisan no leaven may be found in any Israelite home — a memorial to the haste of the…
- customsPassover
The spring festival commemorating Israel's deliverance from Egypt. A lamb is slain at twilight and eaten with bitter herbs and unleavened br…
- customsPentecost (Shavuot)
The Feast of Weeks, fifty days after Firstfruits. Israel brings two loaves of leavened wheat bread as the firstfruits of the wheat harvest —…
- customsTabernacles (Sukkot)
The seven-day autumn harvest festival. Israel leaves the house for a week of living in a sukkah — a temporary booth roofed with branches — r…
- culturePalm tree
The date palm — whose branches meant royal welcome and whose fruit fed the poor — stood at the centre of Palm Sunday.
- conceptSanctification
The setting apart of a person, place, or thing to God, and the moral transformation that follows. In Christian theology, the ongoing work of…
- objectOmer
A small dry measure, about 2.2 litres — the daily ration of manna in the wilderness. One-tenth of an ephah, roughly two big handfuls of grai…
- objectShofar
A trumpet made from a ram's horn, hollowed and shaped to give a piercing, primal blast. It announced the new year, called Israel to war, and…