These are the commands the Lord gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites. The closing formula of Leviticus: these are the commands the Lord gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites. The Sinai grounding closes the book as the Sinai grounding opened the Jubilee regulations (25:1): the entire Levitical system is divine command from the mountain of covenant. Hebrews 8:5 says the earthly sanctuary and its regulations are a shadow and copy of the heavenly — the commands given on Mount Sinai for the Israelites are the earthly expression of the heavenly reality that the new covenant fully reveals. Leviticus ends where it began: with the voice of God speaking to Moses from the place of covenant, establishing the structures through which a holy God dwells with and is worshipped by an earthly people.

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