Doctrine Analysis

Leviticus — Phase 1 Doctrine Analysis (Hmong Language Package)

This document fulfills PRD Phase 1 Steps 4-5: (Part A) a complete doctrine matrix for the eight doctrines assigned to this curriculum, and (Part B) a chapter-by-chapter full-book coverage log spanning Leviticus 1-27, with Leviticus 16:1-34 treated as the theological anchor rather than the scope boundary. Risk tiers, doctrine names, and review routing are identical to assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json; no tier is altered here.

Part A — Doctrine Matrix

#	Doctrine	Risk	Supporting Passages (this book)	Core Translation Risk	Key Hmong Terms at Stake	Review Routing
1	The Sacrificial System and Atonement	Critical	Lev 1:1-17; 2:1-16; 3:1-17; 4:1-35; 5:1-19; 6:8-30; 7:1-38; 16:1-34; 17:11	The whole olah/minchah/shelamim/chattat/asham vocabulary is rendered through the Hmong fij (sacrificial-offering) domain — the same outward form as shamanic fij dab appeasement rites. Without the mandatory “theej txhoj” (atoning-covering) qualifier and explicit once-anticipatory/fulfilled-in-Christ framing at every occurrence, hearers assimilate God’s instituted sacrificial system into an ongoing appeasement-transaction worldview.	khoom fij kub tag nrho; khoom fij theej txhoj kev txhaum; ua kevcai theej txhoj (rau); ntshav; txoj sia (nephesh)	Human theologian
2	The Holiness of God and the Call to Be Holy	Critical	Lev 10:1-3; 11:44-45; 19:1-2; 20:7-8, 26; 21:6-8	Dawb huv shares its root with folk ritual-purity vocabulary (already High-flagged in the baseline `sanctification`/`baptism` entries). Leviticus intensifies the risk by predicating the term of God’s own nature and Israel’s whole-of-life identity, not merely a process — “Be holy, for I am holy” (19:2) risks being heard as an achievable moral-purity target reached by ritual correctness, collapsing into works-righteousness.	dawb huv; txoj kev dawb huv; Nej yuav tsum dawb huv, rau qhov kuv … dawb huv	Human theologian
3	The Priesthood and Mediation	High	Lev 8:1-36; 9:1-24; 10:1-11; 16:1-4, 32-34; 21:1-24	The priestly office and its anointing rite risk assimilation to the Hmong shaman (txiv neeb), the only existing category of specialized spirit-mediator. The “strange fire” narrative (10:1-2), in which sincere but self-devised worship proves fatal, is directly relevant to warning against blending Christian ministry with self-devised, shamanic-adjacent ritual innovation.	tus povthawj; tus Tuam Pov Thawj; roj pleev tsa; nplaim taws txawv (tsis raws li Vajtswv hais)	Human theologian
4	Clean and Unclean	Critical	Lev 11:1-47; 12:1-8; 13:1-59; 14:1-57; 15:1-33	Huv/qias map directly onto extensive, functionally similar Hmong ritual-pollution categories (corpse contact, postpartum confinement/nyob dawm, taboo-animal contact), all remedied by shamanic cleansing. The single most consequential lexical decision in the package: without explicit teaching that Levitical tamei/tahor is a divinely instituted, temporary, pedagogical boundary fulfilled and terminated in Christ, hearers will read ch.11-15 as validating rather than superseding the shamanic contamination-and-cleansing worldview.	huv; qias; kev qias; ntxuav kom huv thiab muab cais ua kom dawb huv	Human theologian
5	The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)	Critical	Lev 16:1-34; 23:26-32	The mercy seat (the literal OT source of the baseline’s Critical `hilastērion` entry) and the chapter’s climactic “once a year” formula (16:34) together create compounded risk: the annual, repeated blood-application pattern, if not explicitly and consistently contrasted with Christ’s genuinely unrepeatable (hapax) sacrifice per Hebrews 9-10, will be assimilated into a repeatable-ritual framework.	lub Npoo Kub Theej Txhoj; Hnub Theej Txhoj Kev Txhaum; ib xyoos ib zaug	Human theologian
6	The Scapegoat and Substitution	Critical	Lev 16:5-10; 16:20-22; 16:26	The Azazel goat-dispatch ritual — laying hands on the goat’s head, confessing sin over it, releasing it alive into the wilderness — structurally mirrors named, still-practiced Hmong shamanic rituals in which an animal is dispatched to carry away sickness/misfortune to a spirit being. An unqualified transliterated “Azazel” risks hearers concluding Scripture affirms a real wilderness spirit receiving a payment, inverting the doctrine’s actual point: God’s own institution of substitutionary guilt-transfer, fulfilled in Christ.	Axaxes [TRANSLATOR REVIEW NEEDED]; nqa (lawv) tej kev txhaum mus; tsa (ob) txhais tes rau saum (taubhau); muab tso mus	Human theologian
7	Sabbath and Sacred Time	Medium	Lev 16:29-31; 23:1-44; 25:1-55	Primarily a comprehension gap, not a direct collision: Hmong culture has no native concept of a creation-rooted, weekly sacred-rest day independent of agricultural/lunar cycles, and the proposed Sabbath transliteration remains unconfirmed. Risk is under-teaching the significance of God structuring time as holy, not a doctrinal inversion.	lub caij uas Vajtswv teem tseg; Hnub Xanpataug [TRANSLATOR REVIEW NEEDED]; Xyoo So; Xyoo Yubili	Native speaker (escalate if ambiguity found)
8	Love of Neighbor (Leviticus 19:18)	Medium	Lev 19:9-18; 19:33-34	Hebrew rea’ in 19:18 primarily denotes a fellow covenant-Israelite; the Hmong rendering (“koj tus kwvtij zej zog”) carries a similarly bounded clan (xeem) connotation. Risk is an under-scoping comprehension gap — hearers defaulting to a narrowly clan-bounded “neighbor” — rather than a collision with a competing religious system; 19:34’s extension to the sojourner must be explicitly taught to close this gap.	kev hlub; Koj yuav tsum hlub koj tus kwvtij zej zog ib yam li koj hlub koj tus kheej; khaws tshuav rau cov pluag thiab lwm haiv neeg	Native speaker (escalate if ambiguity found)

Tier summary: Five doctrines (1, 2, 4, 5, 6) are Critical; one (3) is High; two (7, 8) are Medium. Per 12_ai_translation_requirements.md’s established escalation pattern and this book’s own doctrine_risk_registry.json, all Critical- and High-tier doctrines route to mandatory human theologian review before publication, with no automated-review bypass. Medium-tier doctrines route to native-speaker review at minimum, escalating to theologian review if any collision (rather than mere comprehension gap) is detected during generation.

Part B — Full-Book Chapter-by-Chapter Coverage Log

Every chapter of Leviticus (1-27) is logged below per the full-book-coverage mandate. Chapters contributing no new terms or doctrines beyond what is already logged for an earlier chapter are explicitly marked “Reviewed — no new terms/doctrines” rather than silently omitted.

Ch.	Content Summary	Doctrine(s) Touched	Coverage Status
1	The burnt offering (olah): procedure, laying on of hands, unblemished-animal standard	1 (Sacrificial System)	New terms: burnt offering, without blemish, laying on of hands, blood
2	The grain offering (minchah): flour, oil, frankincense, salt of the covenant, prohibition of leaven/honey	1	New term: grain offering
3	The peace/fellowship offering (shelamim); prohibition on eating fat and blood	1	New term: peace/fellowship offering; blood theology reinforced
4	The sin offering (chattat) for unintentional sin, graduated by office (priest, congregation, leader, individual); laying on of hands; blood application to the altar/veil	1	New terms: sin offering, atonement verb kaphar introduced
5	Guilt-scale provisions for the poor; the guilt/trespass offering (asham) introduced; confession (yadah) required alongside sacrifice	1	New terms: guilt/trespass offering, confess
6	Priestly handling instructions for offerings; perpetual altar fire; holy/common distinction begins (v.18, 27)	1, 2	New term: holy vs. common distinction (foundational grid)
7	Continued offering law; wave offering and heave/contribution offering; priestly portions (grounds Phoebe-adjacent “deacon_servant” provision-for-ministers parallel from the Romans baseline)	1, 3	New terms: wave offering, heave offering
8	Ordination of Aaron and his sons: washing, robing, anointing oil, blood application, filling the hand	3	New terms: consecrate/ordain, anointing oil, tamim reinforced in priestly context
9	Aaron’s first sacrifices as high priest; the glory of the LORD appears and consumes the offering (9:6, 23-24)	1, 3	Glory (`lub yeeb koob`) reused exactly from Romans baseline; no new term beyond Section 2 registry
10	Nadab and Abihu’s “strange fire” and its fatal consequence; Aaron’s silence; the priestly teaching task to “distinguish holy/common, unclean/clean”	3 (primary); 2 (holy/common grid)	New terms: strange/unauthorized fire; distinguish holy/common
11	Clean and unclean animals (land, water, air, swarming things); the reason clause “for I am the LORD your God”	2, 4	New terms: clean, unclean (introduced here as the doctrine’s foundational chapter)
12	Ritual impurity following childbirth; sin offering required afterward though childbirth itself is not sin	4, 1	New term: days of impurity (postpartum)
13	Diagnostic procedures for tsara’at (skin disease); priestly examination and isolation	4	New terms: tsara’at, isolation/quarantine
14	Cleansing rituals for the healed leper (two-bird rite, atonement verb kaphar reapplied); cleansing of a house with tsara’at-like contamination	4, 1	Reinforces cleanse-and-hallow tandem; no new doctrine, cross-links atonement vocabulary into purity domain
15	Bodily discharges and their purification requirements	4	New term: discharge/flow
16	Day of Atonement: high priest’s unique entry into the Most Holy Place; bull and two goats; blood sprinkled on the mercy seat; the Azazel goat sent away bearing Israel’s iniquity; the “once a year” formula; the community’s affliction-of-soul requirement	1, 3, 4, 5, 6 (core passage; convergence point of nearly every doctrine in this package)	Anchor chapter — all Section 2.5 registry terms sourced here
17	Sanctity of blood; prohibition on eating blood or sacrificing outside the tabernacle; warning against idol/goat-demon worship	1	New terms: life/soul (nephesh) as distinct from anthropological `ntsuj plig`; idol (`dab mlom`) reused exactly
18	Sexual holiness laws within kinship boundaries; prohibition of Molech worship	2, 8 (household-holiness background)	New terms: uncover nakedness (euphemism), Molek (proper noun)
19	The holiness code core chapter: “Be holy, for I am holy” (19:2); gleaning provisions for the poor and sojourner; “Love your neighbor as yourself” (19:18); extension of love to the sojourner (19:34)	2, 8 (core passage for both)	Anchor chapter for Doctrine 2’s thesis statement and Doctrine 8 in full
20	Covenant-severing penalties for holiness violations; Molech condemned again; restated holiness formula (“You shall be holy… I have set you apart”)	2	New term: cut off from his people
21	Elevated holiness restrictions specific to priests and the high priest (marriage, mourning, physical wholeness)	2, 3	New term: profane his holiness
22	Priestly conduct in eating holy things; unblemished-animal standard reaffirmed for all offerings; holy Name not to be profaned	2, 1	Reinforces “without blemish” and holy/common distinction; no new doctrine
23	The full appointed-times calendar: Passover/Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Weeks, Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, Booths; weekly Sabbath restated within the festal calendar	5, 7 (core passage for Doctrine 7)	New terms: appointed times/feasts; Sabbath (weekly) reused in calendrical context
24	Lampstand and bread of the Presence maintained continually; blasphemy case and its penalty; “eye for eye” judicial formula	7 (sacred-space maintenance, minor); 8 (justice-adjacent, minor)	Reviewed — no new load-bearing terms beyond eye-for-eye (Section 2.7); logged per full-book-coverage mandate rather than silently skipped
25	Sabbath year (land rest); Year of Jubilee (release of land/persons); kinsman-redeemer (go’el) law	7 (core passage)	New terms: Sabbath year, Jubilee, kinsman-redeemer
26	Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience; call to walk in God’s statutes; promise of restoration for a repentant remnant	2, 7 (covenant-sabbath framing); background to Romans-baseline `covenant`/`promise` distinction	New term: covenant (berit); reinforces transgression/iniquity from ch.16 in a new (covenant-curse) context — logged per escalation-rule §9’s “Low-risk term reused in a novel doctrinal context” convention
27	Laws of vows and valuations; devoted/dedicated things; redemption of vowed persons, animals, and land	1 (offerings-adjacent); background to Doctrine 1 and to the Romans-baseline `redemption`/`adoption_as_sons` entries	New terms: vow (neder), devoted/dedicated things

Full-book coverage confirmation: All 27 chapters of Leviticus have been reviewed. Chapters 9, 14, 22, 24, and 26 are explicitly logged as contributing reinforcing rather than new load-bearing vocabulary; none has been silently omitted, per the PRD Phase 1 full-book-coverage mandate.