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In classical rabbinic literature Leviticus is sometimes known as Torat kohanim " Law of the Priests ," the " Law of the Priests ".

According to Maimonides, about one hundred of the permanent 613 commandments based on the Torah, by rabbinical enumeration, directly concern sacrifices, ( excluding those commandments that concern the actual Temple and the priests themselves of which there are about another fifty )