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Nazirite. In the Hebrew Bible, a nazirite or a nazarite (Hebrew: נָזִיר Nāzīr) [1] is an Isrealite (i.e. Jewish [2][3]) man or woman [4] who voluntarily took a vow which is described in Numbers 6:1–21. This vow required the nazirite to: Not to become ritually impure by contact with corpses or graves, even those of family members. [7]
The Book ofLeviticus (/ lɪˈvɪtɪkəs /, from Ancient Greek: Λευιτικόν, Leuïtikón; Biblical Hebrew: וַיִּקְרָא, Wayyīqrāʾ, 'And He called'; Latin: Liber Leviticus) is the third book of the Torah (the Pentateuch) and of the Old Testament, also known as the Third Book of Moses. [ 1 ] Many hypotheses presented by ...
Laws prohibiting various forms of witchcraft and divination can be found in the books of Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy. These include the following (as translated in the Revised JPS, 2023 : Exodus 22:18 – You shall not tolerate a sorceress.[1] Leviticus 19:26 – You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice divination ...
Holiness code. Part of the Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus scroll, which contains the oldest known copy of the Holiness Code. The Holiness code is used in biblical criticism to refer to Leviticus chapters 17–26, and sometimes passages in other books of the Pentateuch, especially Numbers and Exodus. It is so called due to its highly repeated use of the ...
Leviticus 19. "Tabernacle", Biblical illustrations, Sweet Media, 1984. Leviticus 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Leviticus in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It contains laws on a variety of topics, and is attributed by tradition to Moses. [1]
Title page of the Leviticus volume. The Pentateuch with Rashi's Commentary Translated into English, was first published in London from 1929 to 1934 and is a scholarly English language translation of the full text of the Written Torah and Rashi's commentary on it. The five-volume work was produced and annotated by Rev. M. Rosenbaum and Dr ...
The word "scapegoat" is an English translation of the Hebrew 'ăzāzêl (Hebrew: עזאזל), which occurs in Leviticus 16:8: And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats: one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for Azazel. The Brown–Driver–Briggs Hebrew Lexicon [3] gives la-azazel (לעזאזל) as a reduplicative intensive of the stem ʕ ...
The Sacrifice of the Old Covenant (painting by Peter Paul Rubens). Parashat Vayikra, VaYikra, Va-yikra, Wayyiqra, or Wayyiqro (וַיִּקְרָא —Hebrew for "and He called," the first word in the parashah) is the 24th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the Book of Leviticus.