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    Leviticus 22

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    A priest’s slave may eat the sacred food, while his guest and hired hand may not—a household boundary drawn with the precision of a locked pantry.

    The sacred food has a household guest-listvv. 1–16

    The LORD begins with Aaron and his sons, warning that sacred offerings are not to be treated casually, especially by anyone unclean. A skin disease, a discharge, contact with a corpse, a crawling creature, or another unclean person keeps a descendant of Aaron from the food until evening and bathing; after sunset, the food is his again. The rules then become wonderfully exact about belonging: a priest’s guest and hired hand are excluded, but a slave bought by the priest or born in his household may eat. A priest’s daughter loses the privilege when married outside the priestly family, yet a childless widow or divorced daughter who returns home may share her father’s food as in her youth. An accidental eater must add a fifth and return the sacred offering, lest the priests profane what Israel presents.

    The offering must be sound—and the vow is fussier than the freewill giftvv. 17–25

    The instructions widen to Aaron, his sons, and all Israel, including the foreign resident who brings a burnt offering. An unblemished male from cattle, sheep, or goats is required for a vow or a peace offering. Blindness, injury, maiming, sores, rashes, scabs, and several more unfortunate conditions disqualify an animal from the altar. Yet an ox or sheep with a deformed or stunted limb may still be given freely, provided it is not offered to fulfil a vow. The catalogue ends with a startlingly intimate inspection of the animal’s testicles, which are not to be bruised, crushed, torn, or cut.

    Seven days with its mother, then supper by sunsetvv. 26–33

    A newborn ox, sheep, or goat must remain with its mother for seven days; from the eighth day it may become a food offering. Parent and young are not to be slaughtered on the same day. A thank offering has its own brisk timetable: it must be eaten that day, with nothing left until morning. The final lines gather the rules into the holy name, the God who sanctifies Israel and brought them out of Egypt.

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    1. Lev 22:1Then the LORD said to Moses,

    2. Lev 22:2“Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings that the Israelites have consecrated to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name. I am the LORD.

    3. Lev 22:3Tell them that for the generations to come, if any of their descendants in a state of uncleanness approaches the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person must be cut off from My presence. I am the LORD.

    4. Lev 22:4If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen,

    5. Lev 22:5or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be—

    6. Lev 22:6the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.

    7. Lev 22:7When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the sacred offerings, for they are his food.

    8. Lev 22:8He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.

    9. Lev 22:9The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

    10. Lev 22:10No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.

    11. Lev 22:11But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.

    12. Lev 22:12If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.

    13. Lev 22:13But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.

    14. Lev 22:14If anyone eats a sacred offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the sacred offering to the priest.

    15. Lev 22:15The priests must not profane the sacred offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD

    16. Lev 22:16by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”

    17. Lev 22:17Then the LORD said to Moses,

    18. Lev 22:18“Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,

    19. Lev 22:19must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.

    20. Lev 22:20You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

    21. Lev 22:21When a man presents a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be acceptable.

    22. Lev 22:22You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.

    23. Lev 22:23You may present as a freewill offering an ox or sheep that has a deformed or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable in fulfillment of a vow.

    24. Lev 22:24You are not to present to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut; you are not to sacrifice them in your land.

    25. Lev 22:25Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”

    26. Lev 22:26Then the LORD said to Moses,

    27. Lev 22:27“When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a food offering presented to the LORD.

    28. Lev 22:28But you must not slaughter an ox or a sheep on the same day as its young.

    29. Lev 22:29When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf.

    30. Lev 22:30It must be eaten that same day. Do not leave any of it until morning. I am the LORD.

    31. Lev 22:31You are to keep My commandments and practice them. I am the LORD.

    32. Lev 22:32You must not profane My holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sanctifies you,

    33. Lev 22:33who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD.”

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    • 20Deuteronomy 17:1You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.
    • 21Numbers 15:8When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,
    • 31Deuteronomy 4:40Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
    • 32Luke 11:2So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.
    • 16Leviticus 22:9The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
    • 18Leviticus 1:2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any of you brings an offering to the LORD, you may bring as your offering an animal from the herd or the flock.
    • 20Malachi 1:8When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.
    • 20Deuteronomy 15:21But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
    • 21Numbers 15:3and you present a food offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—
    • 22Leviticus 22:20You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.
    • 27Exodus 22:30You shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.
    • 28Deuteronomy 22:6–7If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
    • 32Leviticus 18:21You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
    • 9Exodus 28:43Aaron and his sons must wear them whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they will not incur guilt and die. This is to be a permanent statute for Aaron and his descendants.’’
    • 15Numbers 18:32Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”
    • 19Leviticus 1:3If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to present an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for its acceptance before the LORD.

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