Leviticus 22:9
But let them keep the keeping of My word, lest they bring guilt upon themselves, and die for it, because they have profaned it, I am the Lord who sanctify them.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
8A carcase which hath been torn he may not eat, to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord.
Cross References
Leviticus 10:1But the sons of Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, took each man his censer and put fire in them, and put sweet incense upon it, and offered (or brought) before the Lord strange fire which He had not commanded them.
Leviticus 22:16nor bring upon themselves iniquities and sins, when they eat in uncleanness the things that are holy. I am the Lord, who sanctify them.
Numbers 18:32And you shall not contract guilt by it in your setting apart the finest of it, nor profane the consecrated things of the children of Israel.
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 →