Leviticuschapter 4
35 verses · Moses, by tradition · 15th to 13th century BC · The Law
Original Language
Leviticus 4— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Leviticus 4. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
Weekly portion 24 of 54
וַיִּקְרָא Vayikra, Leviticus 1:1 to 5:26
Read with it: Isaiah 43:21 to 44:23.
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
2 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 2 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
When the anointed priest sins1
Leviticus 4:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Onkelos Leviticus 4:10
in the same manner as they were separated from the ox of the peace[ sacred ]-offering.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]
Leviticus 4:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
When the whole congregation strays13
Leviticus 4:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Leviticus 4:13
עדת ישראל [AND IF THE WHOLE] CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL [ERR] — This is the Great Sanhedrin (Sifra, Vayikra Dibbura d'Chovah, Section 4; cf. Horayot 4b).
Read it in full at Sefaria · Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934
Leviticus 4:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:20· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
When a ruler sins without knowing22
Leviticus 4:22· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:23· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:24· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:25· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:26· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
When one of the common people sins27
Leviticus 4:27· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:28· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:29· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:30· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:31· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:32· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:33· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:34· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 4:35· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
