Leviticus 10:10-14 – You are to distinguish between the holy and the
common, and between the unclean and the clean, and you are to teach the people of Israel all
the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them by Moses.” Moses
spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his surviving sons: “Take the grain offering that is left of the Lord's food offerings, and eat it unleavened
beside the altar, for it is most holy. You shall eat it in a
holy place, because it is your due and your sons' due, from the Lord's food offerings, for so I am commanded. But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is
contributed you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your
daughters with you, for they are given as your due and your sons' due from the
sacrifices of the peace offerings of the people of Israel.
Numbers
18:12 – All the best of the oil and
all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you.
Leviticus 4:11-12 – But the skin
of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its
dung—all the rest of the
bull—he shall carry outside
the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it shall be
burned up.
Application:
- · The distinction between what was holy and what was common was carefully maintained.
- · Since the best items of produce were to be given to the Lord, these became the special foods of the priests and their families.
- · The distinction between clean and unclean was a matter of ritual or religious purity, not a concern for physical cleanliness.
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
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