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Leviticus 22 Bible study: To be accepted
Leviticus 22 guards the holy things at both ends: the priest who eats them must be clean, and the animal offered must be "without defect" to be accepted (22:19). In Hebrew, the "defect" that kept an animal from the altar is the word used for the priests in chapter 21. The chapter ends: "I am the LORD who makes you holy" (22:32).
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“You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am the LORD who makes you holy, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am the LORD.”
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“In Leviticus 21 and 22, a priest with a defect could not come near to offer, and an animal with a defect could not be offered.”
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What's really going on
A clean priest at a holy table
The chapter opens with the priests and "the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me" (22:2). A priest could eat them, "because it is his bread" (22:7), but not while he was unclean. Anyone of Aaron's offspring who approaches them "having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me" (22:3). Leviticus 7 used the same words, "having his uncleanness on him", for anyone who ate the peace offerings (Leviticus 7:20). The list follows: one who "is a leper or has a discharge" may not eat them "until he is clean" (22:4); so too "Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has a seminal emission, or whoever touches any creeping thing by which he may be made unclean, or a man from whom he may become unclean" (22:4-5). Such a one "shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he bathes his body in water. When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things" (22:6-7).
Where it leads to Jesus
Offered himself without defect
Leviticus 22:19leads toHebrews 9:14
"That you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect" (22:19), and of the peace offerings, "It shall have no defect" (22:21). Hebrews says, "For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" (Hebrews 9:13-14). Hebrews doesn't quote Leviticus 22. In the WEB it uses this chapter's words, "without defect", of Christ, who "offered himself".
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- Who eats at the priest's table
- One word: accepted
- "I am the LORD", nine times
- Whose bread it is
- The same line as the Passover
- 10 questions as you read
- 10 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
קָדַשׁqadashsay ka-DASH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "be set apart, consecrated". For the form in "I will be made holy" (22:32) it lists "shew oneself sacred, majestic" and "be honored or treated as sacred". Verse 32 has the verb twice: "I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am the LORD who makes you holy" (22:32). The second is a phrase the chapter says three times: "I am the LORD who sanctifies them" (22:9, 22:16), and "I am the LORD who makes you holy" (22:32). The people use the verb too, for their gifts: "the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me" (22:2). Ezekiel has the same form as "I will be made holy": "when I have executed judgments in her, and am sanctified in her" (Ezekiel 28:22). Leviticus uses the verb 31 times; earlier the LORD said, "I will show myself holy to those who come near me" (Leviticus 10:3).
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Leviticus 22 Bible study questions
- 1The LORD asked for offerings "without defect" (22:19). What would it look like this week to give God your best rather than what's left over?
- 2The sacrifice of thanksgiving was eaten "on the same day" (22:30). What would it look like to thank God on the day something good happens, before the day moves on?
- 3"I am the LORD who makes you holy" (22:32). Where do you most need God, and not only your own effort, to make you holy?
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