Leviticus Trivia
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100 free Leviticus trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Leviticus is the book readers skip and scholars adore. Sitting at the centre of the Torah, it spends its 27 chapters almost entirely at Sinai, setting out how Israel is to worship, eat, heal and treat one another. This quiz asks what the text actually says: which animals may be offered and by whom, what makes a person, a garment or a home ritually impure, how the Day of Atonement works, when the festivals fall, and what the jubilee demands of landowners and lenders. It suits Bible-study groups, Torah readers and anyone who has wondered where phrases like 'scapegoat' and 'love your neighbour' come from. Every answer is cited to the relevant chapter.
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Q 01Who coined the word 'scapegoat' in his 1530 English Pentateuch, rendering Leviticus 16's goat 'for Azazel'?
William Tyndale
William Tyndale rendered the Latin caper emissarius as '(e)scape goat' in his 1530 Pentateuch; his translations were banned in England, and he was executed as a heretic six years later.
Q 02Leviticus 14 extends its skin-disease rules to what, which a priest may order scraped, re-stoned, or finally torn down?
Houses
Houses could carry the 'plague' in Leviticus 14, and the priest had the house emptied before he inspected it, so that the belongings inside would not be condemned along with the walls.
Q 03Which mammal does Leviticus 11 group with the camel and the hare as cud-chewers that lack a split hoof?
The hyrax
The hyrax (the 'coney' of older Bibles) is not a ruminant at all; its constant jaw movement may have looked like cud-chewing to ancient observers.
Q 04What must a person with a confirmed skin disease cry out under Leviticus 13, living in torn clothes outside the camp?
'Unclean, unclean'
'Unclean, unclean' was the required cry, with torn clothes and a covered upper lip; the isolation spared no one, and King Uzziah lived apart for the rest of his reign while his son governed.
Q 05Leviticus 17 bans eating what, and tells hunters who kill game to cover it with earth?
The blood
The blood is forbidden because Leviticus treats it as the animal's life, so even game killed in the hunt had to be drained and the ground covered over.
Q 06In Leviticus 8's ordination rite, Moses marked Aaron's right ear, right thumb and where else with the ram's blood?
The big toe
The big toe of the right foot completed the trio, after which Aaron and his sons stayed at the Tent of Meeting for seven days to finish their ordination.
Q 07Leviticus 23 marks the first day of the seventh month with 'loud blasts' of the horn — which holiday did it become?
Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, never gets that name in the Torah, which knows the day only as one of horn blasts in the seventh month.
Q 08Leviticus 23 orders every citizen of Israel to live in booths for seven days each year — the rule behind which festival?
Sukkot
Sukkot takes its name from those booths, which Leviticus says are to remind future generations that Israel lived in shelters after the Exodus.
Q 09What does Leviticus 2 call 'of the covenant of your God', required on every grain offering and never to be left out?
Salt
Salt had to season every offering, and the Bible elsewhere calls a lasting pact a 'covenant of salt', the phrase used for God's promise of kingship to David.
Q 10What practice did 'afflict your souls', Leviticus 16's Day of Atonement command, come to mean, as Isaiah 58 makes clear?
Fasting
Fasting is how 'to afflict the soul' was understood, and Isaiah 58 adds that the fast God chooses also means freeing the oppressed and feeding the hungry.
Q 11How often does Leviticus 16 let the high priest pass the curtain into the inner sanctuary to atone for Israel?
Once a year
Once a year only: the rule follows the death of two of Aaron's sons, who had drawn too close, and Aaron is warned not to enter at will 'lest he die'.
Q 12What does Leviticus 10 ban priests from consuming on duty, a rule given just after two of Aaron's sons die?
Wine or strong drink
Wine or strong drink was banned for priests on duty, and one rabbinic tradition blamed the two brothers' deaths on having drunk before they offered.
Q 13How many loaves does Leviticus 24 have baked and set out in the Tabernacle each Sabbath, then eaten by the priests?
Twelve
Q 21Which god does Leviticus forbid Israelites from 'giving' their children to, an act it says profanes God's name?
Molech
Molech worship is banned in Leviticus 18 and 20, where handing over a child is punished with death and called a profanation of the Name.
Q 22Which insects are the only 'winged swarming things' Leviticus 11 allows Israelites to eat?
Locusts
Locusts with jointed legs for leaping are permitted in Leviticus 11:21, and Jews from Yemen and North Africa kept a tradition of which species could be eaten.
Q 23Which two ingredients does Leviticus 2 keep out of every meal offering burned on the altar to the LORD?
Leaven and honey
Leaven and honey were excluded from meal offerings, which were partly burned on the altar and partly eaten by the priests as a most holy portion.
Twelve loaves, the showbread, were food for priests alone, yet a fleeing David was given them at Nob when the priest had no ordinary bread to offer.
Q 14For whom does Leviticus 19 tell farmers to leave the edges of their fields and their fallen grapes?
The poor and the stranger
The poor and the stranger had a claim on the harvest's corners and the gleanings, and the Mishnah says the Torah sets no upper limit on what may be left for them.
Q 15What reason does Leviticus 19:34 give for loving the foreigner who lives among you 'as yourself'?
You were foreigners in Egypt
'You were foreigners in Egypt' is the reason given, and the verse borrows the wording of 'love your neighbour as yourself' from earlier in the chapter, extending that command to outsiders.
Q 16Leviticus 19:14 pairs a ban on putting an obstacle before the blind with a ban on cursing whom?
The deaf
The deaf are shielded from curses they cannot hear, in the same chapter that demands fair judgment and honest weights and measures.
Q 17What does Leviticus 19:32 command Israelites to do before the grey-headed, as a mark of deference to the old?
Stand up
Stand up is the command: rise before the grey head and honour the old. The Talmud reads 'the old' to take in the wise as well, so Jewish law has people rise for a learned scholar whatever his age.
Q 18What must happen to farmland every seventh year under Leviticus 25?
Lie unworked and unsown
Lie unworked and unsown: Leviticus 25 calls the year a sabbath of rest for the land itself, and whatever grows on its own is food for owner, servants, hired workers and animals alike.
Q 19What does Leviticus 25 ban charging an Israelite who has fallen into poverty, 'that your brother may live with you'?
Interest
Interest, Hebrew neshech from a root meaning 'to bite', was barred on loans to a struggling kinsman, and the same law forbade selling him food at a profit.
Q 20What does Leviticus 19:18 forbid alongside bearing a grudge, in the verse that ends 'love your neighbour as yourself'?
Taking vengeance
Taking vengeance is barred, and the verse before gives the alternative: do not hate your brother in your heart, but tell him openly what he has done wrong.
Q 24Leviticus 5 lets the very poorest sinner bring what as a sin offering, at the bottom of its sliding scale?
Fine flour
Fine flour, with no animal at all, was accepted from those who could afford nothing more, so that even the destitute could atone.
Q 25When a Leviticus guilt offering follows theft or fraud, what must the offender add to full restitution for the victim?
A fifth more
A fifth more went to the victim on top of full restitution, and the offender still owed an unblemished ram to the priest as the guilt offering.
Q 26What must 'the anointed priest' bring as a sin offering under Leviticus 4, a costlier animal than a commoner's goat?
A young bull
A young bull was required when the high priest or the whole community sinned unwittingly, and its carcass was burned on the ash heap outside the camp.
Q 27What must happen to a clay pot that boiled a sin offering under Leviticus 6, though copper is just rinsed?
It must be broken
It must be broken, while a copper pot was only scoured and rinsed: the offering was 'most holy', and whatever its flesh touched became holy too.
Q 28What did Moses put inside Aaron's breastpiece at his ordination in Leviticus 8, objects later consulted for oracles?
The Urim and Thummim
The Urim and Thummim went into the breastpiece, as Leviticus 8:8 records. When Saul sought God's answer through them before his last battle, none came, so he turned to a medium at Endor.
Q 29Leviticus 12 lets a new mother who cannot afford a lamb bring what instead, to end her purification after childbirth?
Two turtledoves or pigeons
Two turtledoves or pigeons stood in for the usual lamb and bird, and Luke's Gospel has Mary bring exactly this offering after the birth of Jesus.
Q 30What happens to the second live bird in the Leviticus 14 rite for someone healed of a skin disease?
Released in the open field
Released in the open field after being dipped with cedar wood, crimson yarn and hyssop, once the first bird had been killed over fresh water.