레위기 Chapter 22

Translation: ESV

1

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Key Message

The highest care and reverence is required in everything offered to God and in handling God's holy things.

▸Leviticus 22 prescribes how priests are to handle sacred things and the qualifications of sacrificial offerings.

Leviticus 22 prescribes how priests are to handle sacred things and the qualifications of sacrificial offerings. Handling holy things in a state of impurity or offering defective sacrifices was considered an act of profaning God's name.

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where is my honor? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name.
9

They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

Key Message

Treating holy ministry carelessly is equivalent to treating God himself carelessly.

▸The expression 'lest they bear sin' warns against an attitude of treating regulations casually or dismissively.

19

you shall offer a male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats, that you may be accepted.

Key Message

Everything offered to God must always be the best; this reflects our estimation of God's value.

▸Voluntary offerings to God must be unblemished.

31

"So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the LORD.

Key Message

The ultimate basis and authority for all of God's commandments is God himself.

▸This is the conclusion of all of Leviticus 22.