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Leviticus 1 Bible study: Accepted for him

Leviticus opens where Exodus ended: the LORD calls to Moses from the tent Moses couldn't enter (Exodus 40:35; 1:1). The first offering is the burnt offering. The one who brings it lays his hand on its head, "and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him" (1:4). A bull, a sheep or goat, or a bird: each ends as "a pleasant aroma to the LORD" (1:17).

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“He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.”
Leviticus 1:4 · World English Bible

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Called from the tent

In the text

Exodus ends with the tabernacle raised and the LORD's glory filling it, so that "Moses wasn’t able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it" (Exodus 40:35). Leviticus begins right there: "The LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting" (1:1). At Sinai "the LORD called to him out of the mountain" (Exodus 19:3), and on the seventh day "he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud" (Exodus 24:16). Now he calls from the tent, as he had said he would: "There I will meet with you" (Exodus 25:22). His first words from there are about offerings: "When anyone of you offers an offering to the LORD" (1:2).

Where it leads to Jesus

I have come to do your will

In the text

Leviticus 1:3leads toHebrews 10:8-10

The law of offerings begins, "If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect" (1:3). A psalm says, "You have not required burnt offering and sin offering" (Psalm 40:6), and "I delight to do your will, my God" (Psalm 40:8). Hebrews quotes the psalm as the words of the one who says them "when he comes into the world" (Hebrews 10:5), and says the whole burnt offerings God "didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in" are "those which are offered according to the law" (Hebrews 10:8). "He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all" (Hebrews 10:9-10).

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  • Burnt offerings before the law
  • The fire that doesn't go out
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The Hebrew word behind it

עֹלָהolahsay o-LAH

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "whole burnt-offering". Strong's: "feminine active participle of 5927", the verb for going up, and "usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)". It is this chapter's subject: eight times in seventeen verses (1:3, 1:4, 1:6, 1:9, 1:10, 1:13, 1:14, 1:17). Leviticus uses it 62 times, more than any other book of the Hebrew Bible. Nearly all of it goes up on the altar: "The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering" (1:9). Its first appearance in the Hebrew Bible is Noah's offering (Genesis 8:20), and in Genesis 22 Isaac asks, "where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" (Genesis 22:7).

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Leviticus 1 Bible study questions

  1. 1The LORD speaks from the tent Moses couldn't enter (Exodus 40:35), and his first words are about how "anyone of you" may bring an offering (1:2). What does that tell you about what God wants from people?
  2. 2A bull, a sheep or a bird: each was "a pleasant aroma to the LORD" (1:9, 1:17). Where do you compare what you bring to God with what other people bring?
  3. 3Paul writes, "Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us" (Ephesians 5:2). What would walking in that kind of love look like for you this week?

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