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; # Ex 20:7; Jn 10:25 I am Yahweh. 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 Yahweh. 4No man of Aaron’s descendants who has a skin disease # 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 # 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. # 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, # Lit eat a carcass or a mauled beast # Ex 22:31; Lv 7:24; 17:15; Ezk 44:31 making himself unclean by it; I am Yahweh. 9They must keep My instruction, # Gn 26:5; Lv 18:30 or they will be guilty and die because they profane it; I am Yahweh who sets them apart.
10“No one outside a priest’s family # Lit No stranger # Ex 29:33; Nm 3:10; 18:4,7 is to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired hand is not to eat the holy offering. 11But if a priest purchases someone with his money, 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, # Lit man, a stranger she is not to eat from the holy contributions. # 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, # Nm 15:22,24 he must add a fifth to its value and give the holy offering to the priest. # 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. # Lv 14:12 For I am Yahweh 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 foreign residents # Ex 2:22 in Israel who presents his offering # Lv 1:2 — whether they present freewill gifts or payment of vows to the Lord as burnt offerings — 19must offer an unblemished male # 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, # 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 fire offering to the Lord. # 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; # Lv 21:20 you must not sacrifice them in your land. 25Neither you nor # 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.” # Mal 1:14
26The Lord spoke to Moses: 27“When an ox, sheep, or goat is born, it must remain with # Lit under its mother for seven days; from the eighth day # Ex 22:30 on, it will be acceptable as a gift, a fire offering to the Lord. 28But you are not to slaughter an animal from the herd or flock on the same day as its young. # Ex 23:19; Dt 22:6-7 29When you sacrifice a thank offering # Lv 7:12-15; 2Ch 29:31; 33:16; Ps 56:13; Jr 17:26; 33:11; Am 4:5 to the Lord, sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. 30It is to be eaten on the same day. # Ex 34:25; Lv 7:15; 19:6-7 Do not let any of it remain until morning; I am Yahweh.
31“You are to keep My commands and do them; I am Yahweh. 32You must not profane My holy name; I must be treated as holy # Lv 19:12; 21:6-8,23; 22:2; Lk 11:2 among the Israelites. I am Yahweh who sets you apart, 33the One who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am Yahweh.”
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Leviticus 22
22
The Use of Holy Offerings
1The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2Direct Aaron and his sons to deal carefully with the sacred donations of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they may not profane my holy name; I am the Lord. 3Say to them: If anyone among all your offspring throughout your generations comes near the sacred donations, which the people of Israel dedicate to the Lord, while he is in a state of uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord. 4No one of Aaron's offspring who has a leprous#22.4 A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain disease or suffers a discharge may eat of the sacred donations until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a corpse or a man who has had an emission of semen, 5and whoever touches any swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or any human being by whom he may be made unclean—whatever his uncleanness may be— 6the person who touches any such shall be unclean until evening and shall not eat of the sacred donations unless he has washed his body in water. 7When the sun sets he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the sacred donations, for they are his food. 8That which died or was torn by wild animals he shall not eat, becoming unclean by it: I am the Lord. 9They shall keep my charge, so that they may not incur guilt and die in the sanctuary#22.9 Vg: Heb incur guilt for it and die in it for having profaned it: I am the Lord; I sanctify them.
10No lay person shall eat of the sacred donations. No bound or hired servant of the priest shall eat of the sacred donations; 11but if a priest acquires anyone by purchase, the person may eat of them; and those that are born in his house may eat of his food. 12If a priest's daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the sacred donations; 13but if a priest's daughter is widowed or divorced, without offspring, and returns to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food. No lay person shall eat of it. 14If a man eats of the sacred donation unintentionally, he shall add one-fifth of its value to it, and give the sacred donation to the priest. 15No one shall profane the sacred donations of the people of Israel, which they offer to the Lord, 16causing them to bear guilt requiring a guilt offering, by eating their sacred donations: for I am the Lord; I sanctify them.
Acceptable Offerings
17The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 18Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel and say to them: When anyone of the house of Israel or of the aliens residing in Israel presents an offering, whether in payment of a vow or as a freewill offering that is offered to the Lord as a burnt offering, 19to be acceptable in your behalf it shall be a male without blemish, of the cattle or the sheep or the goats. 20You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable in your behalf.
21When anyone offers a sacrifice of well-being to the Lord, in fulfillment of a vow or as a freewill offering, from the herd or from the flock, to be acceptable it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it. 22Anything blind, or injured, or maimed, or having a discharge or an itch or scabs—these you shall not offer to the Lord or put any of them on the altar as offerings by fire to the Lord. 23An ox or a lamb that has a limb too long or too short you may present for a freewill offering; but it will not be accepted for a vow. 24Any animal that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the Lord; such you shall not do within your land, 25nor shall you accept any such animals from a foreigner to offer as food to your God; since they are mutilated, with a blemish in them, they shall not be accepted in your behalf.
26The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 27When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as the Lord's offering by fire. 28But you shall not slaughter, from the herd or the flock, an animal with its young on the same day. 29When you sacrifice a thanksgiving offering to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that it may be acceptable in your behalf. 30It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall not leave any of it until morning: I am the Lord.
31Thus you shall keep my commandments and observe them: I am the Lord. 32You shall not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel: I am the Lord; I sanctify you, 33I who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord.
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