“ Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD. ”
Concluding Rules for Sacrifice, not specially directed to Aaron, as they concern all persons intending to sacrifice. A calf or lamb or kid offered (as firstborn) is to be kept till the eighth day (...
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Laws relating to the Priesthood and Sacrifice (continued) 1-6. The holy things may not be eaten by priests otherwise qualified, but ceremonially unclean, nor by any persons outside the priestly fa...
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments. — Better, and ye shall keep my commandments. The law about the priests and sacrifices now concludes with an appeal to both the priests and the people to f...
THE LAW OF PRIESTLY HOLINESS Leviticus 21:1-24 ; Leviticus 22:1-33 THE conception of Israel as a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, was concretely represented in a threefold division of the pe...
Instructions already given are now repeated with greater detail and wider application. Not only must the priest himself be free from blemish and defilement, he must see to it that all that which he o...
We often meet with those reasons, and undoubtedly they are very cogent ones. Here is GOD'S authority as GOD. Here is added to this his gracious character as their covenant GOD. And as if these were n...
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them ,.... Both priests and people, even all the commandments delivered at this time, as well as all others; these they were to observe and take notic...
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I [am] the LORD. Ver. 31. I am the Lord. ] Your rightful Lord, and my reward is with me, to give unto every man according to his works.
NO PROFANING OF SEPARATED THINGS (vv. 1-16) Aaron and his sons were always in close proximity to those things that had been separated for sacred purposes. They were therefore to be careful as to t...
Laws Concerning Sacrifices. B. C. 1490. 17 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying, 18...
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Summary of This Section. Leviticus 22:31-33 “Therefore shall you keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh. And you shall not profane my holy name, but I will be hallowed among the childr...
Priestly Privileges Forfeited by Uncleanness SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 22:1 .—Profane not My holy name in those things which they hallow unto Me. Holy things must not be touched with unclean...
Leviticus 22:4 . Unclean. The injunctions in this and the following verses, though not literally binding on christians, yet the holy law from whence they emanate is not to be disregarded. Every in...
I am the Lord. Five motives to obedience Five motives are strewn on their path to constrain them to close obedience. 1. “I am the Lord.” This is authority employed. 2. “I will be hallowed...
EXPOSITION This chapter, which is a continuation of Leviticus 21:1-3 , (1) commands that the ceremonially defiled priest shall not officiate or partake of the sacrificial offerings; (2) d...
Some Qualifications of Sacrifices
1 Thessalonians 4:1 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:2 ; Deuteronomy 4:40 ; Leviticus 18:4 ; Leviticus 18:5 ; Leviticus 19:37 ; Numbers 15:40