Leviticus
Chapter 22
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
2Speak to Aaron and to his sons. They shall keep themselves separate from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and they shall not profane my holy name, the things they set apart for me. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
3Say to them, Through your generations, any man of all your seed who comes near the holy things that the sons of Israel set apart for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. while his uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from before me. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
4Any man of the seed of Aaron who has the skin disease, or a flow, shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything unclean by a dead person, or a man from whom an emission of seed goes out,
5or a man who touches any swarmer by which he becomes unclean, or a person by whom he becomes unclean, whatever his uncleanness,
6the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening, and he shall not eat of the holy things unless he has washed his body in water.
7When the sun comes in he shall be clean, and after that he may eat of the holy things, because it is his food.
8A carcass or a torn animal he shall not eat, to become unclean by it. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
9They shall keep my charge, and they shall not carry offense because of it and die by it, because they profane it. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., who sets them apart.
10No outsider shall eat a holy thing. A priest’s guest and a hired man shall not eat a holy thing.
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Zar is an outsider, as earlier in this book. Toshav is a guest who stays with the priest. Sakhir is a hired man.
11When a priest buys a person, a purchase of his silver, that one may eat of it, and those born in his house may eat of his food.
12When a priest’s daughter becomes a wife to an outside man, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy things.
13When a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or divorced, and she has no seed, and she returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food. No outsider shall eat of it.
14When a man eats a holy thing by mistake, he shall add its fifth to it and give the holy thing to the priest.
15They shall not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, what they raise up to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.,
16and so load them with guilt that must be paid, when they eat their holy things, because I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., who sets them apart.
17God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
18Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, Any man of the house of Israel, or of the People living in a land that is not their own. in Israel, who brings near his A gift brought close to God. for any of their vows or for any of their free gifts, which they bring near to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. as a whole offering,
19so that you may be accepted, it shall be a whole male, from the cattle, from the sheep, or from the goats.
20Anything that has a defect in it you shall not bring near, because it will not be for acceptance for you.
21When a man brings near a sacrifice of well-being to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., to fulfill a vow or as a free gift, from the cattle or from the flock, it shall be whole to be accepted. There shall be no defect in it.
22Blind, or broken, or cut, or with a wart, or with an itch, or with a scab, these you shall not bring near to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and you shall not put a food gift from them on the altar for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Charutz is a cut. Yabbelet is a wart. Garav is an itch. Yallephet is a scab, as in the priest’s defects. The species of the skin marks is not secure.
23An ox or a lamb that is stretched or stunted, you may make it a free gift, and for a vow it shall not be accepted.
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Saru’a is stretched, as in the priest’s defects. Qalut is stunted. A free gift may use the animal. A vow may not.
24What is crushed, or smashed, or torn, or cut you shall not bring near to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. You shall not do this in your land.
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Ma’ukh, katut, natuq, and karut are crushed, smashed, torn, and cut. The line is about the animal’s body, and it also forbids doing this in the land.
25From the hand of a foreigner’s son you shall not bring near the food of your God from any of these, because their damage is in them. A defect is in them. They shall not be accepted for you.
26God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
27When an ox, or a lamb, or a goat is born, it shall be seven days under its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be accepted as a food-gift A gift brought close to God. for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
28An ox or a sheep, it and its young, you shall not slaughter on one day.
29When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanks to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
30On that day it shall be eaten. You shall not leave any of it until morning. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
31You shall keep my commands and do them. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
32You shall not profane my holy name, and I shall be treated as holy among the sons of Israel. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., who sets you apart,
33who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be God to you. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..