Leviticus 22
22
Priests and Their Food
1The Lord spoke to Moses: 2“Tell Aaron and his sons to deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites that they have consecrated to me, so they do not profane my holy name; # 22:2 Ex 20:7; Jn 10:25 I am the Lord. 3Say to them: If any man from any of your descendants throughout your generations is in a state of uncleanness yet approaches the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the Lord, that person will be cut off from my presence; I am the Lord. 4No man of Aaron’s descendants who has a skin disease # 22:4 Or has leprosy or scale disease or a discharge is to eat from the holy offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a dead person or by a man who has an emission of semen, 5or whoever touches any swarming creature that makes him unclean or any person who makes him unclean — whatever his uncleanness — 6the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening # 22:6 Lv 11:24–28,31–32,39–40 and is not to eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body with water. 7When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the holy offerings, for that is his food. # 22:7 Lv 6:16–18,29; 7:7–10,32–36; 26:5 8He must not eat an animal that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts, # 22:8 Lit eat a carcass or a mauled beast,# 22:8 Ex 22:31; Lv 7:24; 17:15; Ezk 44:31 making himself unclean by it; I am the Lord. 9They must keep my instruction, # 22:9 Gn 26:5; Lv 18:30 or they will be guilty and die because they profane it; I am the Lord who sets them apart.
10“No one outside a priest’s family # 22:10 Lit “No stranger,# 22:10 Ex 29:33; Nm 3:10; 18:4,7 is to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired worker is not to eat the holy offering. 11But if a priest purchases someone with his own silver, that person may eat it, and those born in his house may eat his food. 12If the priest’s daughter is married to a man outside a priest’s family, # 22:12 Lit to a stranger she is not to eat from the holy contributions. # 22:12 Lit the contribution of holy offerings 13But if the priest’s daughter becomes widowed or divorced, has no children, and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she may share her father’s food. But no outsider may share it. 14If anyone eats a holy offering in error, # 22:14 Nm 15:22,24 he is to add a fifth to its value and give the holy offering to the priest. # 22:14 Lv 5:14–16 15The priests must not profane the holy offerings the Israelites give to the Lord 16by letting the people eat their holy offerings and having them bear the penalty of restitution. # 22:16 Lv 14:12 For I am the Lord who sets them apart.”
Acceptable Sacrifices
17The Lord spoke to Moses: 18“Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them: Any man of the house of Israel or of the resident aliens # 22:18 Ex 2:22 in Israel who presents his offering # 22:18 Lv 1:2 — whether they present payment of vows or freewill gifts to the Lord as burnt offerings — 19must offer an unblemished male # 22:19 Ex 29:1 from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for you to be accepted. 20You are not to present anything that has a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.
21“When a man presents a fellowship sacrifice to the Lord to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or flock, it has to be unblemished to be acceptable; there must be no defect in it. 22You are not to present any animal to the Lord that is blind, injured, maimed, or has a running sore, festering rash, # 22:22 Dt 28:27; 2Sm 23:38; 1Ch 11:40; Jr 31:39 or scabs; you may not put any of them on the altar as a food offering to the Lord. # 22:22 Lv 21:18–20; Is 28:20 23You may sacrifice as a freewill offering any animal from the herd or flock that has an elongated or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable as a vow offering. 24You are not to present to the Lord anything that has bruised, crushed, torn, or severed testicles; # 22:24 Lv 21:20 you must not sacrifice them in your land. 25Neither you nor # 22:25 Lit nor from the hand of a foreigner are to present food to your God from any of these animals. They will not be accepted for you because they are deformed and have a defect.” # 22:25 Mal 1:14
26The Lord spoke to Moses: 27“When an ox, sheep, or goat is born, it is to remain with # 22:27 Lit under its mother for seven days; from the eighth day # 22:27 Ex 22:30 on, it will be acceptable as an offering, a food offering to the Lord. 28But you are not to slaughter an animal from the herd or flock on the same day as its young. # 22:28 Ex 23:19; Dt 22:6–7 29When you offer a thanksgiving sacrifice # 22:29 Lv 7:12–15; 2Ch 29:31; 33:16; Ps 56:12; Jr 17:26; 33:11; Am 4:5 to the Lord, offer it so that you may be accepted. 30It is to be eaten on the same day. # 22:30 Ex 34:25; Lv 7:15; 19:6–7 Do not let any of it remain until morning; I am the Lord.
31“You are to keep my commands and do them; I am the Lord. 32You must not profane my holy name; I must be treated as holy # 22:32 Lv 19:12; 21:6–8,23; 22:2; Lk 11:2 among the Israelites. I am the Lord who sets you apart, 33the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the Lord.”
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Leviticus 22
22
The offerings are holy
1The LORD told Moses 2to say to Aaron and his sons:
I am the LORD God, and I demand that you honour my holy name by showing proper respect for the offerings brought to me by the people of Israel. 3If any of you are unclean when you accept an offering for me, I will no longer let you serve as a priest. 4None of you may take part in the sacred meals while you have a skin disease or an infected penis, or after you have been near a dead body or have had a flow of semen, 5or if you have touched an unclean creature of any sort, including an unclean person. 6-7Once you are unclean, you must take a bath, but you still cannot eat any of the sacred food until evening. 8I command you not to eat anything that is killed by a wild animal or dies a natural death. This would make you unclean. 9Obey me, or you will die on duty for disgracing the place of worship. Remember—I am the LORD, the one who makes a priest holy.
10Only you priests and your families may eat the food offerings; these are too sacred for any of your servants. 11However, any slave that you own, including those born into your household, may eat this food. 12If your daughter marries someone who isn't a priest, she can no longer have any of this food. 13But if she returns to your home, either widowed or divorced, and has no children, she may join in the meal. Only members of a priestly family can eat this food, 14and anyone else who accidentally does so, must pay for the food plus a fine of twenty per cent.
15I warn you not to treat lightly the offerings that are brought by the people of Israel. 16Don't let them become guilty of eating this sacred food. Remember—I am the LORD, the one who makes these offerings holy.
Acceptable sacrifices
17The LORD told Moses 18to tell Aaron and his sons and everyone else the rules for offering sacrifices. He said:
The animals that are to be completely burnt on the altar 19-20must have nothing wrong with them, or else I won't accept them. Bulls or rams or goats#22.19,20 goats: See the note at 1.1-3. are the animals to be used for these sacrifices.#Dt 17.1.
21When you offer a sacrifice to ask my blessing,#22.21 sacrifice to ask my blessing: See the note at 3.1. there must be nothing wrong with the animal. This is true, whether the sacrifice is part of a promise or something you do voluntarily. 22Don't offer an animal that is blind or injured or that has an infection or a skin disease. 23If one of your cattle or lambs has a leg that is longer or shorter than the others, you may offer it voluntarily, but not as part of a promise. 24As long as you live in this land, don't offer an animal with injured testicles. 25And don't bring me animals you bought from a foreigner. I won't accept them, because they are no better than one that has something wrong with it.
26The LORD told Moses to say:
27Newborn cattle, sheep, or goats must remain with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day, you may send them up in smoke to me, and I will accept the offering. 28Don't sacrifice a newborn animal and its mother on the same day.
29When you offer a sacrifice to give thanks#22.29 sacrifice to give thanks: See 7.12. to me, you must do it in a way that is acceptable. 30Eat all the meat that same day and don't save any for the next day. I am the LORD your God!
31Obey my laws and teachings—I am the LORD. 32-33I demand respect from the people of Israel, so don't disgrace my holy name. Remember—I am the one who chose you to be priests and rescued all of you from Egypt, so that I would be your LORD.
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