Quotes About Tradition

The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”

Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.

Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ëLike mother, like daughter.í

In the wilderness I said to their children: ëDo not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.

So I asked them: ëWhat is this high place to which you go?í (And to this day it is called Bamah.)

When you say, ëLet us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,í what you have in mind will never come to pass.

Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.

There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offering, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit high. On these were placed the utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.

They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They must not wear anything that makes them perspire.

They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must carefully trim their hair.

And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but must marry a virgin of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow of a priest.

A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,

On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.

Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a sin offering.

“This is what the Lord GOD says: ëThe gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.

On the day of the New Moon he shall offer a young, unblemished bull, six lambs, and a ram without blemish.

When the prince enters, he shall go in through the portico of the gateway, and he shall go out the same way.

Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil every morning as a regular burnt offering.í

I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?í” “No,” replied the priests.