Leviticus 21:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

Holy

Profane

Leviticus 18:21

Leviticus 19:12

Malachi 1:6

Bread

Leviticus 3:11

Ezekiel 44:7

Malachi 1:7

Therefore

Isaiah 52:11

General references

Ezekiel 44:25

Bible References

Holy

You shall consecrate him, therefore, for he offers the food of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the Lord, who sanctifies you, am holy.

Then Moses said to Aaron, “It is what the Lord spoke, saying,
‘By those who come near Me I

will be treated as holy,

And before all the people I will be honored.’”
So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.

“You shall also make a plate of pure gold and shall engrave on it, like the engravings of a seal, ‘Holy to the Lord.’

I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; I will also consecrate Aaron and his sons to minister as priests to Me.

Then I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, and the utensils are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord God of your fathers.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a

holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Profane

You shall not give any of your offspring to offer them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.

You shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.

“‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’ says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

Bread

Then the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire to the Lord.

when you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, even My house, when you offered My food, the fat and the blood; for they made My covenant void—this in addition to all your abominations.

You are presenting defiled

food upon My altar. But you say, ‘How have we defiled You?’ In that you say, ‘The table of the Lord is to be despised.’

Therefore

Depart, depart, go out from there,

Touch nothing unclean;

Go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves,
You who carry the vessels of the Lord.

General references

They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves.