Quotes about Sacred
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,
- Leviticus 21:1
You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy—I who set you apart.
- Leviticus 21:8
He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,
- Leviticus 21:22
Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Leviticus 22:1
Tell 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.
- Leviticus 22:3
If 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,
- Leviticus 22:4
the 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.
- Leviticus 22:6
No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.
- Leviticus 22:10
If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.
- Leviticus 22:12
If anyone eats a sacred offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the sacred offering to the priest.
- Leviticus 22:14
The priests must not profane the sacred offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD
- Leviticus 22:15
by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”
- Leviticus 22:16