ing, Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering,

his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour

ead of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and Aar

ance against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done, ... let him bring for

th to all generat

ture until their connection with the Babylonians while in captivity, that their literature was developed during their agricultural life while in Babylon. He affirmed that the sacrificial ritual of the book of Leviticus had its roots in the heathen sacrifices growing out of their false con

let it

Israel's bondage. Many of the critics have found this criticism untenable, and have abandoned it. They have been obliged to concede that Egyptian and Babylonian literature existed long befo

fraud, writing was constantly

d said unto Moses, Write th

nd Moses wrote all th

the Lord said unto Moses

(God) wrote upon the tables

he priest shall write

They were of them

rite thou every man'

rite Aaron's name up

eir goings out according to their journ

write them upon the posts of

Repeats the last

tteth upon the throne of his kingdom, he sh

ositively stated that his servant did write. One of two things is certain, either the whole Pentateuch is a fraud, having stated

such criticism is to eliminate the supernatural from

he Holy Spirit, looking steadfastly into heaven," read the record of history concerning Moses differently. Stephen could not have heard the Ch

In the first verses of the book it is written: "And the Lord called upon Moses, and spake unto him

burnt

meat off

the first three chapters. The fourth chapte

sin of

chapter of the book. Here again the same formula of speech

trespass

ke to Moses, ... and Moses did as the Lord commanded him, ... and Moses said unto the congregation, ... and Moses brought Aaron and his sons, ... as the Lord commanded

veneered it with some sort of divine approval, and handed it over to his people for their use, or by some so

and Moses is represented as doing the thing which God required of him, and several times in many of the chapters. In the eighteenth ch

are absolutely unanswer

called unto Moses,

Lord spake unto M

nd the Lord sp

And the Lord sp

ns did all things which the Lord

his is the thing which the Lor

e Lord spake unto M

nd the Lord spa

the Lord spake un

nd the Lord spa

he Lord spake unto M

same in the following references, viz.: xv. 1, xvi. 1, xvii. 1, xviii. 1,

or commanded Moses. Does language mean anything? Is there any es

Leviticus. And this fact is definitely stated in the last verse of L

minate from the book of Leviticus the one great and divinely-appointed personalit

place the time of the writing after the exile, between nine hundred and one thousand years after th

" The same Hebrew connective unites Exodus with Genesis, and Numbers with Leviticus. The natural, grammati

ts who lived before the exile, that they were familiar with what the

the northern kingdom, between 807 and 765 B.C., during the reign of Jeroboam II, when the kingdom of Israel was at the height of its splendor." (See Schaff-Herzog, Enc. Art. A

uch in this prophecy." He shows that Leviticus is referred to in nine passages in Amos. The reference in Amos

m: "Though ye offer unto me burnt offerings and meat offerings, I will not accept

the first chapter of Leviticus. But the critics inform us that there was no law co

d the prophets, saying, Prophesy not." (Amos ii. 12.) This was a violation of the law of God as found in Num. vi. 2, 3, showing at least that the Pentat

sacrifices as taught in Leviticus. "They shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices." "The

him ten thousand things of my law." (Hosea viii. 12, R.V.) He re

nd his apostles were mistaken; or at least did not tell the truth when they assigned the Pentateuch (Leviticus included) to Moses. They then ask us to

d, on the ground of literary criticism, the positive and repeated statements of inspi

the prophets, all the New Testament writers and the "Teacher sent from God." From these witnesses we rest in the unshaken belief