Quotes About Ritual

These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,

You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.

But you may eat any clean bird.

But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.

You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.

And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.

You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.

This shall be the priestsí share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,

bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.

Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,

then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,

You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp.

In cases of infectious skin diseases, be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.

Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.

You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God.

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

And Joshua raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones he circumcised. Until this time they were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.

Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.

The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.

Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.

or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling