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LEVITICUS – LESSON ELEVEN
(Chapters 23-
XI. LAWS CONCERNING HOLY DAYS AND SEASONS: WEEKLY, MONTHLY, ANNUALLY, SEPTENNIALLY AND EVERY HALF-
A. Law of weekly Sabbath (23:1-
1. Gathering for holy purposes
2. Do no manner of work.
B. Law of Passover (23: 4-
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-
5. No work of labor
C. Law of season of first fruits – wave offering (23:9-
1. Bring sheaf of first-
2. He-
3. Meal offering
4. Drink offering
5. No eating till first-
D. Law of seven sabbaths plus a day following sheaf wave-
1. Wave-
2. Seven lambs, one young bullock, and two rams offered as burnt offering.
3. He-
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-
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-
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-
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-
1. Twelve baked cakes – two rows of six each
2. Pure frankincense on each row – for a memorial-
I. Man stoned to death for blasphemy (24:10-
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-
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-
K. Laws of seventh year (25:1-
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-
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-
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-