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50 free Leviticus trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 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 Bible, a translation then illegal and one he later paid for with his life.
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: infected stones were pulled out and the walls replastered, and a second outbreak meant demolition.
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, along with a bared head and a covered upper lip, so that others could keep their distance.
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, grew from this day of horn blasts, which Numbers 29 calls Yom Teruah.
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 seasoned every meal offering, with the text calling it 'the salt of the covenant with your God' that must never be excluded from the sacrifices.
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 the high priest purged the Tabernacle and made atonement for the Israelites, a law the text fixes 'for all time'.
Q 12What may priests not consume on duty under Leviticus 10, 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 some Yemenite Jewish communities still treat certain species as kosher.
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 replaced each Sabbath, and the priests ate the old ones in the sacred precinct.
Q 14For whom does Leviticus 19 tell farmers to leave the edges of their fields and the fallen grapes of their vineyards?
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 Rabbi Eliezer the Great counted 36 places where the Torah warns against wronging such a newcomer.
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 aged and show deference to the old' — one of dozens of rules packed into Leviticus 19.
Q 18What must happen to farmland every seventh year under Leviticus 25, a 'Sabbath of complete rest' for the land itself?
Lie unworked and unsown
Lie unworked and unsown — with no pruning of vineyards and no reaping of the aftergrowth either — in the sabbatical year known as shmita.
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, literally 'bite' — was barred on loans to a struggling kinsman, and a midrash compared the lender to the serpent biting Adam.
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 first — 'you shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge' — before the command to love the neighbour.
Q 24Leviticus 5 lets a sinner who cannot afford a pair of birds bring what instead, at the bottom of its sliding scale?
Fine flour
Fine flour, with no animal at all, stood in for the bird offering, so that even the destitute could atone for an unwitting sin.
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 27Under Leviticus 6, what happens to a clay pot used to boil a sin offering, where a copper pot is simply rinsed?
It must be broken
It must be broken, since earthenware absorbed the most-holy offering's residue, whereas a copper vessel could be scoured, rinsed and reused.
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 breastplate, as Leviticus 8:8 records, and Saul later used them to seek answers from God in 1 Samuel.
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 replaced the lamb-and-bird pair for a poorer mother, one serving as a burnt offering and the other as a sin offering.
Q 30In the Leviticus 14 rite for someone healed of a skin disease, what happens to the second of the two live birds?
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.