Leviticus 22

¹⁹You must set apart to the Lord your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.

²¹You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

³²Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

³²You must not profane My holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy among the Israelites. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,

¹²you are to present to the Lord the firstborn male of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the Lord.

¹²You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

²⁰But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, that person must be cut off from his people.

²¹If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, that person must be cut off from his people.”

¹⁴And the Lord answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

¹⁵“If Your Presence does not go with us,” Moses replied, “do not lead us up from here.

¹¹Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

⁴¹Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

⁹They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

¹³Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.

²“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.

³This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.

¹³When the man has been cleansed from his discharge, he must count off seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe himself in fresh water, and he shall be clean.

¹⁴On the eighth day he is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, come before the Lord at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.

³⁹If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.

²“When someone has a swelling or rash or bright spot on his skin that may be an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest.

³The priest is to examine the infection on his skin, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a skin disease. After the priest examines him, he must pronounce him unclean.

⁹A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.

³The remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings to the Lord.

⁴³Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

⁴⁴For I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.

⁷Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

¹⁹When a woman has a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

²⁴These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

²⁵and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.

⁵Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

²²let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

²⁴He is to bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his own clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering to make atonement for himself and for the people.

²⁵He is also to burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.

²⁴These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

²⁵and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.

¹³So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.

¹¹And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

²²He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,

⁴Have we no right to food and to drink?

³This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

⁴You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.

¹³Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?

¹⁴In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

¹¹And this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat it.

¹²I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the Lord as their firstfruits.

¹⁵And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.

³¹You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.

²⁴The fat of an animal found dead or mauled by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.

²¹You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

³¹The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.

³⁹If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.

⁴⁰Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

⁴³Aaron and his sons must wear them whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they will not incur guilt and die. This is to be a permanent statute for Aaron and his descendants.

³²Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

²²No longer may the Israelites come near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.

²And the Lord said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

¹⁶by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the Lord who sanctifies them.”

¹Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, contrary to His command.

²So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died in the presence of the Lord.

⁶So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the Lord and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.

⁴He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.

³³They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.

¹³Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.

⁴⁴But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.

¹¹And this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat it.

¹²I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the Lord as their firstfruits.

³or his unmarried sister who is near to him, since she has no husband.

¹³Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or informed Him as His counselor?

¹¹Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

¹⁴And you and your sons and daughters may eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution in a ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.

¹¹And this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat it.

¹²I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the Lord as their firstfruits.

¹⁵But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him.

¹³If, however, the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.

¹⁵“If someone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against any of the Lord’s holy things, he must bring his guilt offering to the Lord: an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; it is a guilt offering.

¹⁶Regarding any holy thing he has harmed, he must make restitution by adding a fifth of its value to it and giving it to the priest, who will make atonement on his behalf with the ram as a guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.

³²Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

⁸Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the Lord. That person must be cut off from his people.

⁹The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

²⁶Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

⁹The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

²⁴He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

¹⁸If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

⁴For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

¹¹After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.

¹²Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

⁸And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

²“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any of you brings an offering to the Lord, you may bring as your offering an animal from the herd or the flock.

³and you present a food offering to the Lord from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the Lord—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—

⁶To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

¹⁶Then the men feared the Lord greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows to Him.

⁹But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the Lord!”

¹²Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.

³If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to present an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for its acceptance before the Lord.

¹⁰If, however, one’s offering is a burnt offering from the flock—from the sheep or goats—he is to present an unblemished male.

⁵Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

²²“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

²³When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

²¹God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

¹You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the Lord your God.

⁸When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the Lord of Hosts.

²¹But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.

¹⁴how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

¹³You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the Lord of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the Lord.

¹⁴“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.

⁸When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the Lord,

³and you present a food offering to the Lord from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the Lord—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—

⁴When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.

⁵It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.

⁶If, however, one’s peace offering to the Lord is from the flock, he must present a male or female without blemish.

¹“If one’s offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it without blemish before the Lord.

²¹If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

²²But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin.

²⁰You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

⁸When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the Lord of Hosts.

⁹The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

⁵Then Aaron’s sons are to burn it on the altar atop the burnt offering that is on the burning wood, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

³From the peace offering he is to bring a food offering to the Lord: the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them,

¹³The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall present all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

¹⁸No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;

²⁰You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

¹No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the Lord.

²⁰or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.

⁶They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the Lord the food offerings, the food of their God, they must be holy.

¹⁴And for the generations to come, if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants to prepare a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he is to do exactly as you do.

¹⁵The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the Lord.

¹²“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’

¹³You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the Lord of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the Lord.

⁸You 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.

⁸I hereby decree what you must do for these elders of the Jews who are rebuilding this house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces west of the Euphrates, so that the work will not be hindered.

⁹Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, as well as wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem—must be given to them daily without fail.

¹²remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

³⁰You shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.

²“Say to the Israelites, ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.

³And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.

²⁵Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”

²³When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.

²⁴In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the Lord.

⁶If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

⁷You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

²¹You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

¹⁹Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

²⁶Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

²²Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.

¹⁷I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord.

⁵Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord God.

⁵you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

¹²If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.

¹³Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.

²Bring your confessions and return to the Lord. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

¹⁹Then Moses said to them, “No one may keep any of it until morning.”

²⁰But they did not listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.

⁷If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is tainted and will not be accepted.

¹⁵The meat of the sacrifice of his peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day he offers it; none of it may be left until morning.

¹⁶If, however, the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, but the remainder may be eaten on the next day.

⁴⁰Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.

³⁷You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the Lord.”

⁴⁰Then you will remember and obey all My commandments, and you will be holy to your God.

⁴You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the Lord your God.

⁵Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the Lord.

¹Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.

²For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

²So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.

²¹You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

⁹So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.

³Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I will reveal My glory.’” But Aaron remained silent.

⁸And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

¹⁷Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

⁴⁵For I am the Lord, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt so that I would be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.

⁷I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

⁴¹I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.”

²“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

³⁸I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

³⁶You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.