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Christian and Jewish and Christian tradition holds that God dictated the Book of Leviticus to Moses as He did the other books [[Pentateuch|Books of the Bible.Law]] <ref>Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Megillah, p. 31B; see also Rashi on Deuteronomy, Ch. 28:23; see also the commentary of Ohr HaChaim at the beginning of Deuteronomy, where he states, "the first four books God dictated to Moses, letter by letter, and the fifth book, Moses said on his own." See also Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, ''Likkutei Sichot'', Vol. 19, p. 9, f. 6, and additional references there. See Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911.</ref>  The authorship and date issues are resolved in the verse: "These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai" (27:34; cf. 7:38; 25:1 and 26:46). In the bible, the fact that God gives these laws to Moses appears 56 times in Leviticus. In addition to recording detailed prescriptions, this book chronicles several historical accounts relating to the laws <ref> See, Leviticus 8-10 and 24:10-23.</ref> The Exodus is dated to have occured ca. 1445 BC and the tabernacle is estimated to have finished one year later <ref> [[Exodus]] 40:17. </ref> Leviticus picks up the record from Exodus, it is likely that this was revealed in the first month (Abib/Nisan) of the second year afte the Exodus. So, the Book of Numbers beings after that in the second month (Ziv; cf. Num 1:1). Modern scholarship sees it the Bookf o Leviticus as a product of the Priestly source and therefore dates it to the fifth century BC.