GOD in the Old Testament - Leviticus - Part 3

Leviticus 20:7  

    " 'Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 20:22-24  

    " 'Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. But I said to you, "You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the nations.' "

(see all Leviticus 20)

 

Leviticus 21:5-8  

    " 'Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies. They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the food offerings to the LORD, the food of their God, they are to be holy. 

    " 'They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God. Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the LORD am holy--I who make you holy.' "

 

Leviticus 21:10-12  

    " 'The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt or tear his clothes. He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother, nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD.' "

 

Leviticus 21:16-17  

    The LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron: 'For generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.' " 

 

Leviticus 21:21-22  

" 'No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the LORD. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God. He may eat the holy food of his God, as well as the holy food; ...' "

(see all Leviticus 21) 

 

(parentheses are mine) 

 

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