What is the purpose of Leviticus for Christians today?
Leviticus explains how God’s redeemed people were to live and worship before a holy God. Israel had already been delivered from slavery. The book then gave the nation its sacrifices, priesthood, purity laws, ceremonies, and appointed feasts. The sacrifices teach the principle of substitution. In Leviticus 1:4, the worshiper places a hand on the animal …