--- title: "Book of Leviticus: Summary & All 27 Chapters · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/ description: "The Book of Leviticus, a book of ritual and moral law in 27 chapters. Bp. Challoner’s summary of all 27 chapters, and the full text free." --- Old Testament # The Book of Leviticus The Book of Leviticus is the third of the 46 books of the Old Testament: 27 chapters and 858 verses. [Start reading: Leviticus 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/1/) Chapters 1–27: [1](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/1/) … [27](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/27/) ## About Leviticus About Leviticus · Ritual and moral law Leviticus is the priests' book: instructions for sacrifice, purity, and worship in Israel's sanctuary, traditionally credited to Moses and preserved by the priestly families who used it. It was written for a people learning to live close to a holy God without being destroyed by the difference, and its constant refrain is that holiness must reach every corner of life. Modern readers find it forbidding, but its logic — that sin costs something, that blood is life, that God dwells among his people — is the grammar the New Testament uses to explain the Cross. *Leviticus in Bless* | | | |---|---| | Testament | Old Testament — book 3 of 46, 3 of 73 in the Bible | | Canon | Protocanonical (in every Christian canon) | | Chapters | 27 | | Verses | 858, as Bless numbers them | | Latin | Clementine Vulgate, every chapter | | Bp. Challoner | Summaries of all 27 chapters · 28 notes | | Catechism | 13 paragraphs cite it | Chapter by chapter ## All 27 chapters, *in brief.* Bishop Richard Challoner’s summary of each chapter, from his revision of the Douay-Rheims (1749–52). Open a chapter for the full text. 1. ### [Leviticus 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/1/) 17 verses Of holocausts or burnt offerings. 2. ### [Leviticus 2](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/2/) 16 verses Of offerings of flour, and firstfruits. 3. ### [Leviticus 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/3/) 17 verses Of peace offerings. 4. ### [Leviticus 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/4/) 35 verses Of offerings for sins of ignorance. 5. ### [Leviticus 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/5/) 19 verses Of other sacrifices for sins. 6. ### [Leviticus 6](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/6/) 30 verses Oblation for sins of injustice: ordinances concerning the holocausts and the perpetual fire: the sacrifices of the priests, and the sin offerings. 7. ### [Leviticus 7](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/7/) 38 verses Of sacrifices for trespasses and thanks offerings. No fat nor blood is to be eaten. 8. ### [Leviticus 8](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/8/) 36 verses Moses consecrateth Aaron and his sons. 9. ### [Leviticus 9](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/9/) 24 verses Aaron offereth sacrifice for himself and the people. Fire cometh from the Lord upon the altar. 10. ### [Leviticus 10](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/10/) 20 verses Nadab and Abiu for offering strange fire, are burnt by fire. Priests are forbidden to drink wine, when they enter into the tabernacle. The law of eating the holy things. 11. ### [Leviticus 11](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/11/) 47 verses The distinction of clean and unclean animals. 12. ### [Leviticus 12](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/12/) 8 verses The purification of women after childbirth. 13. ### [Leviticus 13](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/13/) 59 verses The law concerning leprosy in men, and in garments. 14. ### [Leviticus 14](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/14/) 57 verses The rites of sacrifices in cleansing the leprosy. Leprosy in houses. 15. ### [Leviticus 15](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/15/) 33 verses Other legal uncleannesses. 16. ### [Leviticus 16](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/16/) 34 verses When and how the high priest must enter into the sanctuary. The feast of expiation. 17. ### [Leviticus 17](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/17/) 16 verses No sacrifices to be offered but at the door of the tabernacle: a prohibition of blood. 18. ### [Leviticus 18](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/18/) 30 verses Marriage is prohibited in certain degrees of kindred: Anda all unnatural lusts. 19. ### [Leviticus 19](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/19/) 37 verses Divers ordinances, partly moral, partly ceremonial or judicial. 20. ### [Leviticus 20](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/20/) 27 verses Divers crimes to be punished with death. 21. ### [Leviticus 21](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/21/) 24 verses Ordinances relating to the priests. 22. ### [Leviticus 22](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/22/) 33 verses Who may eat the holy things: and what things may be offered. 23. ### [Leviticus 23](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/23/) 44 verses Holy days to be kept. 24. ### [Leviticus 24](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/24/) 23 verses The oil for the lamps. The loaves of proposition. The punishment of blasphemy. 25. ### [Leviticus 25](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/25/) 55 verses The law of the seventh and of the fiftieth year of jubilee. 26. ### [Leviticus 26](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/26/) 45 verses God's promises to them that keep his commandments. And the many punishments with which he threatens transgressors. 27. ### [Leviticus 27](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/27/) 34 verses Of vows and tithes. Bp. Richard Challoner · chapter summaries Coming up ## Read at *Mass.* From October 29, 2026 to October 28, 2027, Leviticus is read at the principal Mass on 3 days in the US calendar. The next 4 readings: | Date | Celebration | Reading | Citation | |---|---|---|---| | [Mon, Feb 15, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/02/15/) | Monday of the First Week of Lent | First Reading | [Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/19/) | | [Fri, Jul 30, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/07/30/) computed | Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [Leviticus 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/23/) | | [Sat, Jul 31, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/07/31/) computed | St. Ignatius of Loyola, Priest | First Reading | [Leviticus 25:1, 8-17](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/25/) | | [Mon, Mar 6, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/03/06/) computed | Monday of the First Week of Lent | First Reading | [Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18](https://blessbible.app/bible/leviticus/19/) | Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). 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