Week 5 Leviticus
Some big study bibles split up books of the bible into smaller sections. I saw one where Leviticus was divided into twelve subsections.
The minimum division for any book is two.
If I was dividing Leviticus I would split it in half with the split after chapter sixteen (or maybe seventeen – I could go either way).
The reason I would make the break there is because pretty much everything I’ve read before chapter seventeen is material for priests – technical details about sacrifices and how they’re managed.
Chapter seventeen is aimed at both priests and non-priests.
But after that the majority of the content is for ordinary people. I did a quick initial scan through chapters eighteen to twenty-seven. Starting at eighteen I kept seeing this phrase – or one like it: then the Lord said to Moses, say this to your people, the Israelites.
There’s about 350 verses in the last ten chapters of Leviticus. Out of the 350 there’s only two sections written for priests (twenty-one & part of twenty-two – about forty verses total). Which means that 11.43% of the content is for priests, and 88.57% is for everyone.
Meaning section two was not aimed at religious professionals. It was for amateurs like me.
Note: quote from Leviticus 18:1 (NLT). Disclosure: I won’t start reading chapters 18-27 until tomorrow. But I did blitz through them this morning and I’m pretty confident that my numbers are close to accurate for my purposes. And for now close-enough is good-enough.