Leviticus 21
Leviticus 21:1 And Yahveh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, no one will make his throat contaminated among his people,
Leviticus 21:2 except for his closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,
Leviticus 21:3 or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself contaminated).
Leviticus 21:4 He will not make himself contaminated as a husband among his people and so profane himself.
Leviticus 21:5 They will not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their skin.
Leviticus 21:6 They will be sacred to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they offer Yahveh’s fire offerings, the bread of their God; therefore, they will be sacred.
Leviticus 21:7 They will not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither will they marry a woman divorced from her husband, because the priest is sacred to his God.
Leviticus 21:8 You will sanctify him, because he offers the bread of your God. He will be sacred to you, because I, Yahveh, who sanctify you, am sacred.
Leviticus 21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by prostitution, profanes her father; she will be burned with fire.
Leviticus 21:10 “The priest who is most influential among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, will not let the hair of his head hang loose nor tear his clothes.
Leviticus 21:11 He will not go near any dead throats nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.
Leviticus 21:12 He will not go out of the sanctuary, or else he profanes the sanctuary of his God, because the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am Yahveh.
Leviticus 21:13 And he will take a wife in her virginity.
Leviticus 21:14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he will not marry. But he will take as his wife a virgin of his own people,
Leviticus 21:15 that he may not profane his offspring among his people, because I am Yahveh who sanctifies him.”
Leviticus 21:16 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Leviticus 21:17 “Speak to Aaron, and this is what you should say, none of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus 21:18 Because no one who has a defect will draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,
Leviticus 21:19 or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand,
Leviticus 21:20 or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.
Leviticus 21:21 No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect will come near to offer Yahveh’s fire offerings; since he has a defect, he will not come near to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus 21:22 He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most sacred and of the sacred things,
Leviticus 21:23 but he will not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a defect, that he may not profane my sanctuaries, because I am Yahveh who sanctifies them.”
Leviticus 21:24 So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.
Leviticus 21 quotes:
“The man who would take the offerings of the Lord, bring and offer them, was actually acting in the place of our great High Priest, the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, who lived a perfect life. When He came into the presence of God He was One in whom the Father delighted because He had always done right. Any person serving as a priest had to have no visible defects in order to convey the principle that something less than perfect would be unacceptable. We are to keep in mind that so far as the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and the saving power of God are concerned, it is God’s great glory that His grace should extend to everybody—whosoever will may come. God is no respecter of persons—Christ Jesus died for all.”
Gutzke, Manford George. Plain Talk on Leviticus and Numbers. Zondervan Pub. House., 1981. p. 49.
“Although you and I are priests unto God by virtue of our living relationship with Christ, our privileges as priests are dependent and conditional. Like the sons of Aaron, we can be excluded from higher, honored ministries for the Lord.”
Ravenhill, David. For God’s Sake, Grow up! : A Call to Spiritual Maturity. Destiny Image Publishers, 1997. p. 125.
“These men had to remain detached from profane things and were subject to very strict rules concerning purity (Leviticus 21:4-23). In a unique way they represented in their person the inscription which was engraved in the golden breastplate of the High Priest, Holiness to the Lord (Exodus 28:36).”
Coleman, Robert E. Written in Blood; a Devotional Bible Study of the Blood of Christ. F.H. Revell Co, 1972. p. 42.
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