3.  Consider now the assumptions of the critics in the face of the claims of the book of Leviticus.  In the first verses of the book it is written:  “And the Lord called upon Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying.”  Then follow God’s specific directions concerning

(1) The burnt offering;

(2) The meat offering, and

(3) The sin offering, occupying the whole of the first three chapters.  The fourth chapter is introduced in the same explicit language.

(4) The sin offering.

This definite direction of God to Moses extends to the sixth chapter of the book.  Here again the same formula of speech is employed, God speaking to Moses gave directions concerning

(5) The trespass offering.

In the eighth chapter we have God’s direct communication to Moses, and Moses’ response in such phrases as the following, and all in a single chapter:  “And the Lord spake 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 Moses, ... and Moses brought Aaron’s sons, as the Lord commanded Moses.”  Ten times in this single chapter it is recorded that God spake to Moses, and Moses obeyed God.

And yet our critic would have us believe one of two things; God either took the heathen sacrificial ritual, veneered it with some sort of divine approval, and handed it over to his people for their use, or by some sort of evolution the book of Leviticus came up out of the heathen method of appeasing their malevolent deities!

Let the facts be summarized.  In every one of the twenty-seven chapters of the book of Leviticus God is represented as commanding Moses, and Moses is represented as doing the thing which God required of him, and several times in many of the chapters.  In the eighteenth chapter nineteen definite things are done by Moses, the seventeenth verse asserting that all this was done “as the Lord commanded Moses.”

The following references are absolutely unanswerable by the critics, viz.: 

Lev. i. 1:  “The Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto him.”

Lev. iv. 1:  “The Lord spake unto Moses, saying,” etc.

Lev. vi. 1; “And the Lord spake unto Moses.”

Lev. viii. 1:  “And the Lord spake unto Moses.”

Lev. viii. 36:  “Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.”

Lev. ix. 6:  “And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commanded that ye should do.”

Lev. xi. 1:  “And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron.”

Lev. xii. 1:  “And the Lord spake unto Moses.”

Lev. xiii. 1:  “And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron.”

Lev. xiv. 1:  “And the Lord spake unto Moses.”

Lev. xiv. 33:  “And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron.”

Without further repetition of this phraseology, the reader will find the same in the following references, viz.:  xv. 1, xvi. 1, xvii. 1, xviii. 1, xix. 1, xx. 1, xxi. 1, xxii. 1-17, xxiii. 1, xxiv. 1, xxv. 1, xxvii. 1-34.