Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsEvery male among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.
Any male among the priests may eat it; it is most holy.
`Every male among the priests doth eat it--it is most holy;
All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLeviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.
- Author
- Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
- Date
- Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)