adjective
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of or relating to the Levites
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of or relating to the book of Leviticus containing moral precepts and many of the laws concerning the Temple ritual and construction
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Levitical
1525–35; < Late Latin Lēvitic ( us ) ( see Leviticus) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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For her second book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, she spent a year following the Bible’s instructions for women literally, gamely camping out in her yard in obedience to Levitical instructions for menstruating women.
From Slate • May 4, 2019
Written prohibitions can be traced as far back as the Levitical Codes.
From Slate • Feb. 7, 2012
How suitable was this address to those who first heard it, laboring and heavy laden with the costly rites and burdensome observances of the Levitical law!
From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph
The Levitical holiness adheres outwardly to persons and things and consists in their separation or their reservation from common use.
From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann
No one better than he understood the veneration in which the Levitical law was held by the Jewish people, and the tenacity with which they adhered to it.
From The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity by Reber, George
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