Hi and welcome to
His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank you
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for joining with me
today to read the Word of God.
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When I look at the top of the
Bible where it kind of gives a
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heading for what the topic
is in the chapters beneath,
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this particular section in
Leviticus that we are reading
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right now is
called personal laws.
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And it struck me the last
time we were reading together
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how God is taking great pains
to tell the children of Israel
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that the laws of Egypt
that He brought them out of
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and the laws of Canaan
that He's bringing them to
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are not to be the
laws that they follow.
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They are to follow His
laws because He is a holy God
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and they are His holy people.
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And as we read that
today, I'll be looking not just
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to... to find the laws that God
was specifically speaking to the
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Israelites but the principles
that He means for all of us
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as His children, His
sons and His daughters,
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to have to show
that we belong to Him
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and not to the world around us.
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Let's pray
together before we read.
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Dear Jesus, thank you so much
for the passages that we'll be
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reading today. Particularly
as we read them, we ask
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for You to come and to
guide our minds and our thoughts
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to not only hear the words
that were spoken and recorded
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so many years
ago to the Israelites
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but to understand the meaning
of the words that You wish
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for us to know
today... to apply to us today.
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We want to be Your holy
and special people - set apart
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from the world. We
want to serve You better.
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Please teach us how.
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We love You so much, and
thank You for loving us. Amen.
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Again, we are reading
in the book of Leviticus.
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We are starting with chapter 20,
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and this is the
King James version.
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And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,
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Again, thou shalt say
to the children of Israel,
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Whosoever he be of
the children of Israel,
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or of the strangers that sojourn
in Israel, that giveth any
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of his seed unto Molech; he
shall surely be put to death:
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the people of the land
shall stone him with stones.
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And I will set My face against
that man, and will cut him off
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from among his people; because
he hath given of his seed
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unto Molech, to
defile My sanctuary,
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and to prone My holy name.
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And if the people of the land
do in any ways hide their eyes
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from the man, when he
giveth of his seed unto Molech,
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and kill him not: Then I will
set My face against that man,
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and against his
family, and will cut him off,
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and all that go a whoring after
him, to commit whoredom with
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Molech, from among their people.
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And the soul that turneth after
such as have familiar spirits,
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and after wizards, to
go a whoring after them,
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I will even set my
face against that soul,
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and will cut him off
from among his people.
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Sanctify yourselves
therefore, and be ye holy:
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for I am the Lord your God.
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And you shall keep My
statutes, and do them:
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I am the Lord
which sanctify you.
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For everyone the
curseth his father or his mother
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shall be surely put to
death: he hath cursed his father
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or his mother; his
blood shall be upon him.
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And the man that committeth
adultery with another man's
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wife, even he that committeth
adultery with his neighbor's
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wife, the adulterer and
the adulteress shall surely
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be put to death.
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And the man that
lieth with his father's wife
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hath uncovered his
father's nakedness: both of them
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shall surely be put to death;
their blood shall be upon them.
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And if a man lie
with his daughter-in-law,
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both of them shall
surely be put to death:
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they have wrought confusion;
their blood shall be upon them.
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If a man also lie with mankind,
as he lieth with a woman,
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both of them have
committed an abomination:
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they shall
surely be put to death;
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their blood shall be upon them.
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And if a man take a wife and
her mother, it is wickedness:
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they shall be burnt
with fire, both he and they;
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that there be no
wickedness among you.
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And if a man lie with a beast,
he shall surely be put to death:
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and ye shall slay the beast.
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And if a woman approach unto
any beast, and lie down thereto,
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thou shalt kill the
woman, and the beast:
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they shall
surely be put to death:
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their blood shall be upon them.
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And if a man shall take his
sister, his father's daughter,
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or his mother's
daughter, and see her nakedness,
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and she see his
nakedness; it is a wicked thing;
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and they shall be cut off
in the sight of their people:
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he hath uncovered
his sister's nakedness;
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he shall bear his iniquity.
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And if a man shall lie with
a woman having her sickness,
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and shall uncover her nakedness;
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he hath discovered her fountain,
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and she hath uncovered
the fountain of her blood:
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and both of them shall be
cut off from among their people.
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And thou shalt not uncover
the nakedness of thy mother's
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sister, nor of thy father's
sister, for he uncovereth
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his near kin, they
shall bear their iniquity.
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And if a man shall
lie with his uncle's wife,
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he hath uncovered his uncle's
nakedness; they shall bear
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their sin; they
shall die childless.
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And if a man shall
take his brother's wife,
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it is an unclean thing: he
hath uncovered his brother's
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nakedness; they
shall be childless.
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Ye shall therefore keep all My
statutes and all My judgments,
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and do them: that the
land, whither I bring you
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to dwell
therein, spew you not out.
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And ye shall not walk in
the manners of the nation,
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which I cast out before you:
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for they
committed all these things,
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and therefore I abhorred them.
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But I have said unto you,
Ye shall inherit their land,
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and I will give it
unto you to possess it,
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a land that floweth
with milk and honey:
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I am the Lord your God,
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which have separated
you from other people.
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You shall therefore put
difference between clean beasts
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and unclean, and
between unclean fowls and clean:
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and you shall not make
your souls abominable by beast,
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or by fowl, or by any manner
of living thing that creepeth
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on the ground, which I have
separated from you as unclean.
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And ye shall be holy unto
Me: for I the Lord am holy,
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and have severed you from other
people, that ye should be Mine.
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A man also or woman
that hath a familiar spirit,
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or that is a wizard,
shall surely be put to death:
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they shall stone
them with stones:
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their blood shall be upon them.
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We are continuing in
the book of Leviticus
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chapter 21, and this
is the King James version.
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And the Lord said unto Moses,
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Speak unto the priests the sons
of Aaron, and say unto them,
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There shall none be defiled
for the dead among his people:
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But for his kin, that
is near unto him, that is,
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for his mother, and for
his father, and for his son,
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and for his
daughter, and for his brother,
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And for his sister a
virgin, that is nigh unto him,
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which hath had no husband;
for her may he be defiled.
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But he shall not defile himself,
being a chief man among his
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people, to profane himself.
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They shall not make
baldness upon their head,
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neither shall they shave
off the corner of their beard,
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nor make any
cuttings in their flesh.
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They shall be holy unto their
God, and not profane the name
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of their God: for the offerings
of the Lord made by fire,
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and the bread of
their God, they do offer:
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therefore they shall be holy.
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They shall not take a wife
that is a whore, or profane;
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neither shall they take a
woman put away from her husband:
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for he is holy unto his God.
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Thou shalt sanctify him
therefore, for he offereth
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the bread of thy God:
he shall be holy unto thee:
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for I the Lord, which
sanctify you, am holy.
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And the daughter of any
priest, if she profane herself
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by playing the whore,
she profaneth her father:
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she shall be burnt with fire.
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And he that is the high
priest among his brethren,
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upon whose head the
anointing oil was poured,
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and that is consecrated
to put on the garments,
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shall not uncover his
head, nor rend his clothes,
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Neither shall he go
in to any dead body,
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nor defile himself for
his father, or for his mother;
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Neither shall he go out of
the sanctuary, nor profane the
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sanctuary of his God; for
the crown of the anointing oil
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of his God is upon
him: I am the Lord.
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And he shall take a
wife in her virginity.
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A widow, or a divorced
woman, or profane, or a harlot,
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these shall he not take:
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for he shall take a virgin
of his own people to wife.
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Neither shall he profane
his seed among his people:
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for I the Lord do sanctify him.
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And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,
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Speak unto Aaron, saying,
Whosoever he be of thy seed
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in their generations
that hath any blemish,
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let him not approach to
offer the bread of his God.
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For whatsoever man he
be that hath a blemish,
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he shall not approach:
a blind man, or a lame,
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or he that hath a flat
nose, or any thing superfluous,
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Or a man that is
broken-footed, or broken-handed,
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Or crookbacked, or a dwarf,
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or that hath a blemish in his
eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed,
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or hath his stones broken;
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No man that hath a
blemish of the seed of Aaron
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the priest shall come nigh to
offer the offerings of the Lord
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made by fire: he hath a blemish;
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he shall not come nigh to
offer the bread of his God.
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He shall eat the bread of
his God, both of the most holy,
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and of the holy. Only he
shall not go in unto the veil,
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nor come nigh unto the altar,
because he hath a blemish;
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that he profane
not my sanctuaries:
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for I the Lord do sanctify them.
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And Moses told it unto
Aaron, and to his sons,
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and unto all the
children of Israel.
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Continuing now in
Leviticus chapter 22.
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And the Lord spake unto Moses,
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saying, Speak unto Aaron
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and to his sons, that they
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separate themselves
from the holy things of the
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children of Israel, and that
they profane not My holy name
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in those things which they
hallow unto Me: I am the Lord.
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Say unto them, Whosoever he
be of all your seed among your
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generations, that goeth
unto the holy things, which the
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children of Israel hallow unto
the Lord, having his uncleanness
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upon him, that soul shall
be cut off from My presence:
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I am the Lord.
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What man soever of the
seed of Aaron is a leper,
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or hath a running issue;
he shall not eat of the holy
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things, until he be clean.
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And whoso toucheth any thing
that is unclean by the dead,
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or a man whose
seed goeth from him;
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Or whosoever
toucheth any creeping thing,
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whereby he may be made unclean,
or a man of whom he may take
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uncleanness,
whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
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The soul which hath touched
any such thing shall be unclean
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until even, and shall
not eat of the holy things,
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unless he wash
his flesh with water.
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And when the sun is
down, he shall be clean,
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and shall afterward
eat of the holy things;
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because it is his food.
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That which dieth of
itself, or is torn with beasts,
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he shall not eat to
defile himself therewith:
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I am the Lord.
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They shall
therefore keep Mine ordinance,
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lest they bear sin
for it, and die therefore,
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if they profane it: I
the Lord do sanctify them.
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There shall no
stranger eat of the holy thing:
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a sojourner of the
priest, or a hired servant,
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shall not eat of the holy thing.
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But if the priest buy
any soul with his money,
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he shall eat of it, and
he that is born in his house:
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they shall eat of his meat.
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If the priest's daughter
also be married unto a stranger,
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she may not eat of an
offering of the holy things.
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But if the priest's daughter
be a widow, or divorced,
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and have no child, and is
returned unto her father's
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house, as in her youth,
she shall eat of her father's
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meat: but there shall
no stranger eat thereof.
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And if a man eat of
the holy thing unwittingly,
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then he shall put the
fifth part thereof unto it,
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and shall give it unto the
priest with the holy thing.
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And they shall not profane the
holy things of the children of
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Israel, which they
offer unto the Lord:
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Or suffer them to bear
the iniquity of trespass,
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when they eat their holy things:
for I the Lord do sanctify them.
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And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,
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Speak unto
Aaron, and to his sons,
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and unto all the children
of Israel, and say unto them,
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Whatsoever he be of the house
of Israel, or of the strangers
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in Israel, that will offer
his oblation for all his vows,
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and for all his freewill
offerings, which they will offer
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unto the Lord
for a burnt offering;
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Ye shall offer at your own
will a male without blemish,
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of the beeves, of the
sheep, or of the goats.
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But whatsoever hath a blemish,
that shall ye not offer:
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for it shall not
be acceptable for you.
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And whosoever offereth a
sacrifice of peace offerings
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unto the Lord to accomplish
his vow, or a freewill offering
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in beeves or sheep, it
shall be perfect to be accepted;
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there shall be
no blemish therein.
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Blind, or broken, or
maimed, or having a wen,
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or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall
not offer these unto the Lord,
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nor make an offering by
fire of them upon the altar
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unto the Lord. Either a bullock
or a lamb that hath any thing
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superfluous or lacking in his
parts, that mayest thou offer
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for a freewill offering; but for
a vow it shall not be accepted.
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Ye shall not offer unto
the Lord that which is bruised,
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or crushed, or broken, or cut;
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neither shall you make any
offering thereof in your land.
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Neither from a stranger's
hand shall ye offer the bread
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of your God of any of
these; because their corruption
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is in them, and
blemishes be in them:
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they shall not
be accepted for you.
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And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,
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When a bullock, or a sheep,
or a goat, is brought forth,
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then it shall be
seven days under the dam;
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and from the eighth day and
thenceforth it shall be accepted
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for an offering made
by fire unto the Lord.
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And whether it be cow or
ewe, ye shall not kill it
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and her young both in one day.
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And when ye will offer a
sacrifice of thanksgiving
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unto the Lord,
offer it at your own will.
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On the same day
it shall be eaten up;
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ye shall leave none of it
until the morrow: I am the Lord.
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Therefore shall ye keep
My commandments, and do them:
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I am the Lord.
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