The Places of Leviticus
Leviticus names 6 places; Egypt, Holy Place and Mount Sinai most often. 4 of them can be put on a map, 3 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.
- Located with confidence
- Location uncertain
- Mountain
Every place in Leviticus
The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn. References follow the chapter and verse numbering of the English Bible, which differs from the Septuagint’s in places.
| Place | References | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 11:45, 18:3, 19:34, 19:36, 22:33, 23:43, 25:38, 25:42, 25:55, 26:13, 26:45 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Holy Place | 6:30, 10:18, 16:2, 16:3, 16:16, 16:17, 16:20, 16:23, 16:24, 16:27 | OpenBible.info | Not located |
| Mount Sinai | 7:38, 25:1, 26:46, 27:34 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 463) |
| Canaan | 14:34, 18:3, 25:38 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Most Holy Place | 16:33 | OpenBible.info | Not located |
| Wilderness of Sinai | 7:38 | OpenBible.info | High |
Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.