JOHN JELINEK
OUTLINE
Introduction
I. Divine Instruction Ensuring a Sanctified Dwelling Prepared for the Lord’s Presence among His People (1:1–16:34)
A. God’s Holiness Must Be Maintained by Those Who Secure His Dwelling through Presentation of Appropriate Sacrifices and Offerings (1:1–7:38)
1. The Law of the Whole Burnt Offering: an Offering Conveying God’s Wrath against Sin and a Worshiper’s Acceptance by God (1:1-17)
2. The Law of the Grain Offering: an Offering Conveying a Believer’s Recognition of the True Source of His Life as Found in God (2:1-16)
3. The Law of the Peace Offering: a Community Celebration of a Believer’s Peace with God and the Communion Available between God and Man (3:1-17)
4. The Law of the Sin Offering: an Offering Presented for an Individual’s Unintentional Sin (4:1–5:13)
a. Rituals to Atone for Unintentional Sin (4:1-35)
(1) The Purification Offering for the High Priest (4:3-12)
(2) The Purification Offering for the Congregation (4:13-21)
(3) The Purification Offerings for Leaders and Commoners (4:22-35)
b. Illustrations of Offenses Requiring the Sin Offering (5:1-6)
c. Concessions for the Poor in the Sin Offering (5:7-13)
5. The Law of the Reparation Offering: an Offering Presented When Making Amends for Unwittingly Defrauding God or Man (5:14–6:7)
a. Abusing the Lord’s Property Unwittingly (5:14-19)
b. Abusing Man’s Property and the Lord’s Name (6:1-7)
6. Additional Priestly Administrative Instructions Pertaining to the Sacrifices (6:8–7:38)
a. In the Ritual of the Whole Burnt Offering, the Priest’s Actions and Dress Convey the Availability of Access to an Ever-Present God through an Ever-Available Atonement (6:8-13)
b. In the Ritual of the Grain Offering of the Common Person, the Priest’s Actions Should Express God’s Acceptance of Offerings Presented in Faith (6:14-18)
c. In the Ritual of the Grain Offering of the Priest, the Priest Was Expected to Demonstrate His Own Devotion to the Lord (6:19-23)
d. In the Ritual of the Sin Offering of the Priest, the Priest Was Expected to Demonstrate His Awareness of the Seriousness of Sin before God (6:24-30)
e. In the Ritual of the Reparation Offering, the Priest Reinforced Confession and Repentance of Sin (7:1-10)
f. In the Administration of the Peace Offering and Its Variant Forms, the Priest Ensured the Integrity of the Offering by Instructing Laypersons concerning the Proper Consumption of the Offerings (7:11-21)
g. The Priests Ensured the Layperson’s Knowledge of the Lord’s Right to the Fat and the Blood (7:22-27)
h. Through Proper Handling and Consumption of Dedicated Portions of the Peace Offering the Priests Conveyed Reverence for God (7:28-38)
B. Those Ordained to Present Offerings, and the Land and People They Represent, Must Demonstrate the Holiness of the Lord in Their Midst by Ensuring That All That Enters the Lord’s Presence Is Itself Holy (8:1–16:34)
1. God’s Holiness Must Be Maintained by Those Who Secure His Dwelling through the Consecration and Presentation of Themselves in Unique Holiness (8:1–10:20)
a. The Consecration of the Levitical Priests (8:1-36)
b. The Inauguration of the Tabernacle Worship (9:1-24)
c. Violation of God’s Holiness and the Resultant Statutes Pertaining to Priestly Tabernacle Duties: Nadab and Abihu Offer Strange Fire (10:1-20)
2. God’s Holiness Must Be Maintained by His People in Their Presentation of Themselves and All That They Own and Do in Unique Holiness (11:1–15:33)
a. God’s People Distinguish Themselves as His People in What They Regard as Clean and Unclean, Consuming Only That Which God Has Prescribed (11:1-47)
b. God’s People Distinguish Themselves as His among All People by Virtue of Their Respect for Blood That Enters His Holy Presence (12:1-8)
c. God’s People Distinguish Themselves as His Unique People in the Ways in Which They Deal with Disease and Contamination (13:1–14:57)
d. God’s People Distinguish Themselves as His Unique People in the Ways in Which They Seek to Honor God with Their Stewardship of Their Bodies (15:1-33)
3. God’s Holiness Requires a Particular Day of Atonement on the Part of His People and Priests (16:1-34)
II. Divine Instruction Ensuring the Preservation of a Holy Land and a Holy People Declaring the Lord’s Presence (17:1–27:34)
A. Reminders on Sacrificial Offerings: Sacrifice to God Alone, Treat the Blood as Holy, and Approach God in Purity (17:1-16)
B. Exhortations toward Community Holiness: God Is To Be Honored in the Sexual, Social, and Ethical Lives of His People, and in His Exclusive Right to Their Worship (18:1–20:27)
1. God Is To Be Honored by a Sanctified Sexuality among His People (18:1-30)
2. God Is To Be Honored by the Sanctified Social and Ethical Practices of His People, and Is To See His Holiness Reflected in Their Lives (19:1-37)
3. God Is To Be Honored by the Exclusive Nature of the Sanctified Worship and Family Practices of His People (20:1-27)
C. Things or Persons That Are Holy (Set Apart) with Instruction to Maintain Their Holiness (21:1–27:34)
1. Matters Related to the Defilement or Disqualifications of the Priests or the Holy Offerings (21:1–22:33)
a. Priestly and High Priestly Qualifications (21:1-24)
b. Rules to Preserve the Holiness of Offerings to the Lord (22:1-33)
2. Calendric Convocations: Stipulations Ensuring That Israel Sanctifies Time to the Lord (23:1-44)
3. Things To Be Treated as Holy in the Service of God: Bread, Oil, and the Sanctity of the Divine Name (24:1-23)
4. The Land As Holy in the Service of God: Regulations for the Sabbath Year and the Year of Jubilee (25:1-55)
5. The Land as Holy in the Service of God: Experiencing Conditional Covenantal Blessings in the Land and the Consequences of Disobedience to the Lord (26:1-46)
6. The Holiness of Gifts Offered at the Sanctuary of God and the Regulations That Ensure Proper Dedication to the Lord (27:1-34)