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Page 1 : THE HOLY BIBLE Translated from the Latin Vulgate Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions in Divers Languages THE OLD TESTAMENT First Published by the English College at Douay A.D. 1609 & 1610 and THE NEW TESTAMENT First Published by the English College at Rheims A.D. 1582 With Annotations The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner A.D. 1749-1752 THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS This Book is called LEVITICUS, because it treats of the Offices, Ministries, Rites and Ceremonies of the Priests and Levites. The Hebrews call it VAICRA, from the word with which it begins. Leviticus Chapter 1 Of holocausts or burnt offerings. 1:1. And the Lord called Moses, and spoke to him from the tabernacle of the testimony, saying: 1:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man among you that shall offer to the Lord a sacrifice of the cattle, that is, offering victims of oxen and sheep: 1:3.

Page 5 : 4:29. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim that is for sin: and shall immolate it in the place of the holocaust. 4:30. And the priest shall take of the blood with his finger, and shall touch the horns of the altar of holocaust: and shall pour out the rest at the foot thereof. 4:31. But taking off all the fat, as is wont to be taken away of the victims of peace offerings, he shall burn it upon the altar, for a sweet savour to the Lord: and he shall pray for him, and it shall be forgiven him. 4:32. But if he offer of the flock a victim for his sin, to wit, an ewe without blemish: 4:33. He shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall immolate it in the place where the victims of holocausts are wont to be slain. 4:34. And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and shall touch the horns of the altar of holocaust: and the rest he shall pour out at the foot thereof. 4:35.

Page 9 : 8:6. And immediately, he offered Aaron and his sons. And when he had washed them, 8:7. He vested the high priest with the strait linen garment, girding him with the girdle, and putting on him the violet tunick: and over it he put the ephod. 8:8. And binding it with the girdle, he fitted it to the rational, on which was Doctrine and Truth. 8:9. He put also the mitre upon his head: and upon the mitre over the forehead, he put the plate of gold, consecrated with sanctification, as the Lord had commanded him. 8:10. He took also the oil of unction, with which he anointed the tabernacle, with all the furniture thereof. 8:11. And when he had sanctified and sprinkled the altar seven times, he anointed it, and all the vessels thereof: and the laver with the foot thereof, he sanctified with the oil. 8:12. And he poured it upon Aaron's head: and he anointed and consecrated him. 8:13.

Page 13 : 11:18. And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion. 11:19. The heron, and the charadroin according to its kind, the houp also, and the bat. 11:20. Of things that fly, whatsoever goeth upon four feet, shall be abominable to you. 11:21. But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind longer, wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth, 11:22. That you shall eat: as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and ophimachus, and the locust, every, one according to their kind. 11:23. But of flying things whatsoever hath four feet only, shall be an abomination to you. 11:24. And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be defiled: and shall be unclean until the evening: 11:25. And if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when they are dead: he shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the sun set. 11:26. Every beast that hath a hoof, but divideth it not, nor cheweth the cud shall be unclean: and he that toucheth it, shall be defiled. 11:27.

Page 17 : 14:14. And the priest taking of the blood of the victim that was immolated for trespass, shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot. Taking of the blood, etc... These ceremonies used in the cleansing of a leper, were mysterious and very significative. The sprinkling seven times with the blood of the little bird, the washing himself and his clothes, the shaving his hair and his beard, signify the means which are to be used in the reconciliation of a sinner, and the steps by which he is to return to God, viz., by the repeated application of the blood of Christ: the washing his conscience with the waters of compunction: and retrenching all vanities and superfluities, by employing all that is over and above what is necessary in alms deeds.

Page 21 : 16:19. And sprinkling with his finger seven times, let him expiate, and sanctify it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. 16:20. After he hath cleaned the sanctuary, and the tabernacle, and the altar, then let him offer the living goat. 16:21. And putting both hands upon his head, let him confess all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their offences and sins. And praying that they may light on its head, he shall turn him out by a man ready for it, into the desert. 16:22. And when the goat hath carried all their iniquities into an uninhabited land, and shall be let go into the desert: 16:23. Aaron shall return into the tabernacle of the testimony, and putting off the vestments, which he had on him before when he entered into the sanctuary, and leaving them there, 16:24. He shall wash his flesh in the holy place, and shall put on his own garments.

Page 25 : 19:35. Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure. 19:36. Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt. 19:37. Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments: and do them. I am the Lord. Leviticus Chapter 20 Divers crimes to be punished with death. 20:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 20:2. Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: If any man of the children Israel, or of the strangers that dwell in Israel, give of his seed to the idol Moloch, dying let him die. The people of the land shall stone him. 20:3. And I will set my face against him: and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he hath given of his seed to Moloch, and hath defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy name. 20:4.

Page 29 : 23:14. You shall not eat either bread, or parched corn, or frumenty or the harvest, until the day that you shall offer thereof to your God. It is a precept for ever throughout your generations, and all your dwellings. 23:15. You shall count therefore from the morrow after the sabbath, wherein you offered the sheaf of firstfruits, seven full weeks. 23:16. Even unto the morrow after the seventh week be expired, that is to say, fifty days: and so you shall offer a new sacrifice to the Lord. 23:17. Out of all your dwellings, two loaves of the firstfruits, of two tenths of flour leavened, which you shall bake for the firstfruits of the Lord. 23:18. And you shall offer with the loaves seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one calf from the herd, and they shall be for a holocaust with their two rams: and they shall be for a holocaust with their libations for a most sweet odour to the Lord. 23:19.

Page 33 : 25:52. If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years: and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years. 25:53. His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight. 25:54. And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children. 25:55. For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. Leviticus Chapter 26 God's promises to them that keep his commandments. And the many punishments with which he threatens transgressors. 26:1. I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing: neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your God. 26:2. Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord. 26:3. If you walk in my precepts, and keep my commandments, and do them, I will give you rain in due seasons.