Leviticus 22:4
If one of Aaron's descendants has a skin disease or a discharge, he is not allowed to eat the holy offerings until he is clean. Anyone who touches anything made unclean by a dead body or by a man who has had a release of semen,
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5or anyone who touches an unclean animal or an unclean person (whatever the uncleanness is),
Cross References
Leviticus 2:3The rest of the grain offering is for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings given to the Lord as food offerings.
Leviticus 6:25“Tell Aaron and his sons that these are the regulations for the sin offering. The sin offering is to be killed where the burnt offering is killed before the Lord, and it is most holy.
Leviticus 11:39If an animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches the dead body will be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 13:44then he has an infectious disease; he is unclean. The priest must declare him unclean because of the infection on his head.
Leviticus 14:2“These are the regulations regarding those who have had a skin disease when having been brought to the priest they are declared clean.
Leviticus 15:13Once the discharge has healed, the man must allocate seven days for his cleaning process, wash his clothes, and wash himself in fresh water, and he will be clean.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 22:2-10
Laws Concerning the Priests. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the Lord . 3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord , having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off… Read the whole commentary →