Leviticus 22:9 · KJV
“They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.”
— Leviticus 22:9
That which dieth of itself, or is torn {with beasts}, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I {am} the LORD.
There shall no stranger eat {of} the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat {of} the holy thing.
Leviticus 22 — Context
And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it {is} his food.
8That which dieth of itself, or is torn {with beasts}, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I {am} the LORD.
9They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
10There shall no stranger eat {of} the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat {of} the holy thing.
11But if the priest buy {any} soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat. {with...: Heb. with the purchase of his money}
Cross References
Exodus 28:43
And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy {place}; that they bear not iniquity, and die: {it shall be} a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
Numbers 18:32
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
Numbers 18:22
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. {and die: Heb. to die}
Leviticus 22:16
Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them. {suffer...: or, lade themselves with the iniquity of trespass in their eating}
Leviticus 16:2
And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy {place} within the vail before the mercy seat, which {is} upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
Leviticus 10:1-2
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
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