Time Covered: 1 month (1512 B.C.E.)

3. What time period is covered by Leviticus?

³ What time period does Leviticus cover? The book of Exodus concludes with the setting up of the tabernacle “in the first month, in the second year, on the first day of the month.” The book of Numbers (immediately following the Leviticus account) opens with Jehovah’s speaking to Moses “on the first day of the second month in the second year of their coming out of the land of Egypt.” It follows, therefore, that not more than a lunar month could have elapsed for the few events of Leviticus, most of the book consisting of laws and regulations.​—Ex. 40:17; Num. 1:1; Lev. 8:1–10:7; 24:10-23.