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
But his mother brings him to the Lord long before the Levitical age, and leaves him at Shiloh, bound over to a lifelong service.
From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden
And although the Levitical organization, as ascribed to David, is manifestly post-exilic, it is at least certain that many of the Levitical families were of southern origin.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
No human language could possibly set forth, more graphically, the utter inefficacy of the Levitical ceremonial.
From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by Mackintosh, C. (Charles) H. (Henry)
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