Quotes About Ceremony

Then the priest is to pour some of the oil into his left palm

and he shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.

When a woman is cleansed of her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.

He is to wear the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments. He must tie a linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are holy garments, and he must bathe himself with water before he wears them.

Then he is to take some holy water in a clay jar and put some of the dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.

Then the priest is to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar; after that he is to have the woman drink the water.

When the altar was anointed, the leaders approached with their offerings for its dedication and presented them before the altar.

“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean.

But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORDís offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.

The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. This shall be a permanent statute for you and the generations to come.

This is to be done for each bull, ram, lamb, or goat.

The firstfruits of everything in their land that they bring to the LORD will belong to you. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat them.

Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting.

The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.

Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.

The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.

Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.

Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation, and commission him in their sight.

Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.

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 the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God,

Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”