Quotes About Holiness

You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sonsí share of the offerings made by fire to the LORD; for this is what I have been commanded.

“Why didnít you eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the congregation by making atonement for them before the LORD.

Since its blood was not brought inside the holy place, you should have eaten it in the sanctuary area, as I commanded.”

The LORD spoke again to Moses and Aaron, telling them,

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

The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.

Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.

These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean.

and anyone who picks up a carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.

The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,

If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.

Any food coming into contact with water from that pot will be unclean, and any drink in such a container will be unclean.

Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.

If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;

but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.

Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.

For I am the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt so that I would be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.

You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.í”

Then he is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.

“Say to the Israelites, ëWhen any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.