This post is all about Bible Journaling through Leviticus.
Leviticus follows the Israelites as they wander the wilderness.
This is my journey as I follow them and learn about the laws and requirements of the Old Covenant. And, more importantly, How those laws, offerings, and sacrifices all point to Jesus.
Related Post: Leviticus – A Brief Introduction
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Although Bible journaling is about so much more than just making an aesthetic journal page, here I share my best tips and funny failures to give you inspiration so you can journal your way through any book. I share different techniques I use and supplies that I find helpful to give you ideas on what you can also do.
If you are new to Bible journaling, check out Bible Journaling for Beginners – Everything You Need to Know To Get Started.
Bible Journaling through Leviticus – the offerings
Leviticus reminds me of a “camping” theme since the Israelites wander the wilderness and camp around God’s pillar of cloud and fire. Although I found this paper at a craft store, a camping-themed scrapbook kit would be so much fun to use throughout Leviticus.
For the fold-out, I doubled the width of the paper that I needed, cut it to size, and folded it in half (with the back side an eighth of an inch longer). Then I glued the backside of the paper into the spine of my Bible.
Although I did not fill up the notes completely, I will be able to go back an add in more notes whenever I am reading through Leviticus.
Since I ran out of space for note-taking on the main page, I used Mr. Pen’s transparent sticky notes to add more room.
Since I was still figuring out my Bible journaling style when reading through Leviticus, I decided to just do mild highlights throughout the text and coordinate it with my notes. Here I used Mr. Pen Highlighters for this.
Related post: The Exciting Truth About the Limits Of Sacrifices
For taking tiny notes, I absolutely adore micron fine-tip pens. They write the smallest and most continuous of any pen I have ever tried.
I also recently found out the Mr. Pen now makes the 005 size that I use, but the price is cheaper. I have not tried these out yet, but let me know if you have and what you think!
Every once in a while, I love using stamps or other embellishments in my Bible journal to give it a creative aesthetic. Here, I used stamps that I had from Hobby Lobby, but there is a similar alphabet stamp on Amazon.
God is proved holy in all things
For this paper fold-out, I simply used craft tape along the edge of the paper and taped it to the edge of the Bible page. Whenever I do this, I try to keep most of the tape on my craft paper so that I do not tape too much of the opposite side, which can interfere with Bible journaling.
Here, I also used some different color Micron pens for contrast.
Clean vs. Unclean
I often switch between micron pen sizes to help give my Bible Journaling pages in Leviticus more contrast.
I also noticed that this section in Leviticus repeated clean vs. unclean so much, that I wanted to circle those words to draw attention to their importance.
The theme of clean vs. unclean continued, so I circled all of the occurrences. It really is amazing all of the symbolism in these chapters, which you can read more about in my Bible study Separation from the Unclean – The Truth Found in the Law.
Here, I color-coordinated some of my notes using Mr. Pen highlighters. Although I did not connect all of the notes to the text with color, I wish I had. It makes it so much easier to find the notes when reading back through a book.
This is a good example of using color and arrows to connect the notes with the text. I find that it is especially important to link your notes when they don’t sit even with the text. This makes it so much easier to find your commentary when re-reading through a book.
For my little scapegoat page add-in, I found a coloring picture of a goat and cut it out. Then I glued it to the bottom of a strip of scrapbook paper. I find that it is always easiest to write my notes on scrapbook paper before I add them to my Bible journal.
After I wrote down notes on the top flap, I realized that there was still more to write. So I added another flap on the bottom of the page.
Bible journaling through Leviticus – Various laws
Here, I used even more arrows and color coordination because my notes were not lining up with the text of Leviticus and I didn’t want to get lost in everything.
As you can see, I did not have a color pallet for the book of Leviticus. Instead, I just went for whatever I felt like at the time. Although this makes it easy to seamlessly add notes later, I have found that I prefer to do a color pallet of around ten different colors when I am journaling through a book.
I really love using Crayola colored pencils because they come in so many colors and are so versatile.
Bible Journaling through Leviticus – Appointed Festivals
Here, I decided to use just a small scrap of scrapbook paper and directly cover the text that it was referencing. In order to attach it, I used this rose-gold floral washi tape. I love using washi tape to add more contrast to my page, and I can remove the note without ruining the Bible page.
This time, to insert the note I glued it into the spine of my Bible. But I wanted the fun pattern of the cactus washi tape so I added it along the side of my note. I also tore off some of the cacti and placed them around my Bible page.
On this Leviticus Bible Journaling page, I kept it mostly back and white, but then used a pen to add in one colored note to bring attention to it.
Often, when I start a journal page, I do not know how it will turn out. I just let the creative process decide for me!
Leviticus 27 really seemed to emphasize the idea of being holy, and I thought that was the perfect summarization of the book. I love the quote that “Holy living should be our goal.”
Leviticus perfectly shows us that we will never reach holiness or perfection through the law. We will always fall short. Yet, through the law, Leviticus points us to the blood of Jesus which is far greater than the sacrifice of any animal we could offer.
This post was all about my journey of Bible Journaling through Leviticus.
I hope that you were able to find some inspiration and encouragement for your own creative Bible journaling.
Let me know in the comments below how you plan on Journaling through Leviticus (or any other book of the Bible).
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