Leviticus 21:8
You will set him apart, for he is the one who offers bread to your God. He must be holy to you, because I, Yahweh who makes you holy, am holy.
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Exodus 19:14Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He set apart the people to Yahweh and they washed their garments.
Exodus 29:1Now this is what you must do to set them apart to me so that they may serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,
Leviticus 11:44For I am Yahweh your God. You are to keep yourselves holy, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves with any kind of animal that moves about on the ground.
Leviticus 20:7Therefore consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am Yahweh your God. + 20:7 Several modern versions have: ... because I, Yahweh your God, am holy .
Leviticus 21:6They must be holy to their God and not disgrace the name of their God, because the priests offer Yahweh's food offerings, the bread of their God. Therefore the priests must be holy.
Numbers 28:2“Command the people of Israel and say to them, 'You must offer sacrifices to me at the appointed times, the food of my offerings made by fire to produce a sweet aroma for me.'
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 →