Quotes About Ritual

The priest will then sprinkle the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Tell them that if anyone from the house of Israel or any foreigner living among them offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

but does not bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD, that man must be cut off from his people.

Therefore I say to the Israelites, ëNone of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.í

And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.

But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, then he shall bear his iniquity.”

If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is tainted and will not be accepted.

The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as his guilt offering to the LORD.

You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaronís sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,

He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.

or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.

He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,

or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be—

When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the sacred offerings, for they are his food.

No one outside a priestís family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.

If the priestís daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.

must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.

You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

You are not to present to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut; you are not to sacrifice them in your land.

“When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

It must be eaten that same day. Do not leave any of it until morning. I am the LORD.

The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.