Bible Study Questions for the book of
Leviticus
1.What is the burnt offering? What animals are acceptable for it? Who presents the blood
of the animal? Why is all of it burned on the altar?
2.What is the grain offering? What can be brought for the grain offering? What does the
priest do with it? What ingredients must not be a part of the grain offering?
3.What is in the fellowship offering? Why is this offering made? What animals are
brought for this sacrifice? What must be done with the fat?
4.What is brought for the sin offering? Who is the “anointed priest”? Why is his purity
important for the purity of the people? What is done with the rest of the bull that is not
burnt on the altar?
5. What sins cause the need for a sin offering?
6.What is the restitution offering? Where is the restitution offering slaughtered? Who gets
the hide of the animal that is sacrificed?
7.Who are ordained as priests? What is done for their ordination ceremony? Where does
Moses put the blood on the anointed priests? How long does the ordination process take?
8. Who are Nadab and Abihu? What do they do to invoke God’s wrath? What is their
What does this incident tell us about God and His expectations of
punishment? obedience?
9. What does Moses say to console Aaron? What does Moses allow Aaron to do while
mourning? What is he not allowed to do? What will happen if Aaron disobeys? Why
would God be mad at the whole assembly, not just Aaron and the ones that committed the
sin?
1. What are God’s commands regarding animals? Who does He give the instruction to?
Why are these commands important?
2. What land animals can be consumed? What land animals are they restricted from
eating? Why would they be considered unclean? What aquatic animals are unclean?
Why would they be deemed unclean?
3. What birds are unclean? What insects are unclean? What did the people have to do if
they touched dead animals? Why would eating an animal used for food that dies
naturally be considered unclean? How long are they unclean if they touch an animal
carcass? What do we learn about swarming creatures?
4. Why would women need to be purified after childbirth? Why would the gender of the
baby have anything to do with how long she remained unclean?
5. Why does God focus on skin diseases? Why would the people afflicted with these
diseases be separated from everyone else? How are they supposed to cleanse skin
diseases?
6. What is Aaron told about the holy place behind the veil? What will happen to Aaron if he
disregards this instruction? When is he allowed to enter the holy place? What happens
on this day?
7. Why is eating blood and carcasses forbidden? What happens if someone eats the blood?
What must be done with blood that is drained from a wild animal or bird?
8. Why are pagan practices forbidden? What does it mean to “pass through the fire”? What
does God say about the nations that participate in these things?
9.Why is Israel supposed to be holy? What instructions does God give about holiness?
1. What will happen
Who is Molech? God warned against Molech worship earlier, why does He reiterate His
instructions about this false god? Who does this instruction apply to? if someone engages in Molech worship? What happens if someone uses a medium or
spiritists?
2. What is the penalty if someone curses his parents? What is the penalty for adultery?
Who is guilty? What will happen if they violate God’s commands? What does God tell
them about the nations He is driving out?
3. What family members can a priest make himself ceremonially unclean for? Why would
this not apply to the priest’s wife? What will happen if the anointed priest leaves the
sanctuary? What are Aaron’s descendants with physical defects forbidden from doing?
What can they do?
4. What must be done with an unclean priest that approaches the holy offerings? Who is
forbidden from eating the holy offering? Why would a priest’s daughter that was
widowed or divorced with no children be allowed to eat the offering?
5. What happens with the son of an Israelite mother and Egyptian father that curses the
Name? Who made the decision about what to do with the boy? What happens if
someone kills an animal? What if someone injures another person?
6. What happens on the Sabbath year and Jubilee? What is proclaimed in the 50th year?
What are they not allowed to do?
7. What does God promise them if they obey His statutes and observe His commands?
What kind of covenant is that? What will happen if they choose not to follow His
statutes? Who will rule over them? What will God do if that is not enough to turn them
back to Him?
8. Why can’t something permanently set apart for The LORD be redeemed? Who can be
redeemed?
