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Leviticus 22:2 KJV
Leviticus · chapter 22 · verse 2
Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.Leviticus 22:2 · King James Version
Leviticus 22:2 in context
1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.
3Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
4What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- separatenâzarto hold aloofH5144 →
- profanechâlalproperly, to boreH2490 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- hallowqâdashto be cleanH6942 →
- Speakdâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- AaronʼAhărôwnAharon, the brother of MosesH175 →
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Those that had a natural blemish, though they were forbidden to do the priests' work, were yet allowed to eat of the holy things: and the Jewish writers say that "to keep them from idleness they were employed in the wood-room, to pick out that which was worm-eaten, that it might not be used in the fire upon the altar;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9