Quotes About Holiness

He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.

The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

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.

The priests must not profane the sacred offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD

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.

You must not profane My holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sanctifies you,

For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.

You must not do any regular work, but you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD.í”

On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.

I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on this day.

On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.

For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.

You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.

When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.

Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.

No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.

Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherdís rod will be holy to the LORD.

He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.í”

Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.

Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.

So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any outsider who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death.”