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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 withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
This Book is called LEVITICUS, because it treats of the Offices,Ministries, Rites and Ceremonies of the Priests and Levites. The Hebrewscall 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 ofthe testimony, saying:
1:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Theman among you that shall offer to the Lord a sacrifice of the cattle,that is, offering victims of oxen and sheep:
1:3. If his offering be a holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer amale without blemish, at the door of the testimony, to make the Lordfavourable to him.
A holocaust… That is, a whole burnt offering (olokauston), so called,because the whole victim was consumed with fire; and given in suchmanner to God as wholly to evaporate, as it were, for his honour andglory; without having any part of it reserved for the use of man. Theother sacrifices in the Old Testament were either offerings for sin, orpeace offerings: and these latter again were either offered inthanksgiving for blessings received; or by way of prayer for new favoursor graces. So that sacrifices were then offered to God for fourdifferent ends or intentions, answerable to the different obligationswhich man has to God: 1. By way of adoration, homage, praise, and glorydue to his divine majesty. 2. By way of thanksgiving for all benefitsreceived from him. 3. By way of confessing and craving pardon for sins.4. By way of prayer and petition for grace and relief in allnecessities. In the New Law we have but one sacrifice, viz., that of thebody and blood of Christ: but this one sacrifice of the New Testamentperfectly answers all these four ends; and both priest and people, asoften as it is celebrated, ought to join in offering it up for thesefour ends.
1:4. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim: and it shallbe acceptable, and help to its expiation.
1:5. And he shall immolate the calf before the Lord: and the priests thesons of Aaron shall offer the blood thereof, pouring it round about thealtar, which is before the door of the tabernacle.
1:6. And when they have flayed the victim, they shall cut the jointsinto pieces:
1:7. And shall put fire on the altar, having before laid in order a pileof wood.
1:8. And they shall lay the parts that are cut out in order thereupon:to wit, the head, and all things that cleave to the liver;
1:9. The entrails and feet being washed with water. And the priest shall