The most important traditions of Ezekiel are priestly, although it is difficult to trace exactly all the antecedents of his vision in the existing priestly traditions in Exodus 25-31 and 35-40 (the tabernacle with its equipment and rituals). Leviticus, and Numbers 1 through 10. There are similarities in Ezekiel to the so-called Holiness Code (Lv 17-26), a collectrion of laws concerned with the holiness of the people and the land they are entering. Examples of such similarities are the phrase, " for I, the Lord, am your God" (Lv. 26, 2; in Ezekiel, " I am the Lord") as a motive to act rightly, and the mixing of "ritual" and "moral" laws (e.g., Lv.19). Some scholars distinguish two traditions in Leviticus, a "priestly code" in chapters 1 through 16 (abbreviated P) and a "holiness code" in chapters 17 through 26 (abbreviated H).
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