Leviticus 21:8
You shall consider him holy because he presents the food offerings to your God. He shall be holy to you, because I am holy. I am the Lord, and I chose you as my special people.
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Exodus 19:14Moses went down the mountain and prepared the people spiritually and they washed their clothes.
Exodus 29:1Now this is how you are to proceed to dedicate them to serve me as priests. Take a young bull and two rams with no defects.
Leviticus 11:44because I am the Lord your God; so dedicate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Don't defile yourselves by any animal that crawls along the ground.
Leviticus 20:7So dedicate yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 21:6They must be holy to their God and not disgrace their God's reputation. They are the ones who present the food offerings to the Lord, the food of their God. Consequently they must be holy.
Numbers 28:2“Give the following regulations to the Israelites: You are to present to me at the appropriate times my food offerings for me to accept.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 21:2-10
Laws Concerning the Priests. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. 4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his… Read the whole commentary →