id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3359 Book of Leviticus - Wikipedia .html text/html 4496 741 70 The New Testament, particularly the Epistle to the Hebrews, uses ideas and images from Leviticus to describe Christ as the high priest who offers his own blood as a sin offering.[33] Therefore, Christians do not make animal offerings either, as Gordon Wenham summarized: "With the death of Christ the only sufficient 'burnt offering' was offered once and for all, and therefore the animal sacrifices which foreshadowed Christ's sacrifice were made obsolete."[40] Christians generally have the view that the New Covenant supersedes (i.e., replaces) the Old Testament's ritual laws, which includes many of the rules in Leviticus. Judaism's weekly Torah portions in the Book of Leviticus[edit] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3359.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3359.txt