Thematic Bible: Special laws respecting


Thematic Bible



"Drink no wine nor strong drink - neither thou nor thy sons with thee - when ye go into the tabernacle of witness, lest ye die. And let it be a law forever unto your children after you: Verse ConceptsAbstinenceAlcoholOrdinancesPriests, Function In Ot TimesWineProhibitionEntering The TabernacleNot Drinking WineStrong DrinkDeath Due To God's PresenceDrinking No WineAlcoholic Beveragesbeeralcoholism


"'If a man eat of the hallowed things unwittingly, he shall put the fifth part thereunto, and make good unto the priest the hallowed thing. And let the priests see, that they defile not the hallowed things of the children of Israel which they have offered unto the LORD, lest they lade themselves with misdoing and trespass in eating their hallowed things, for I am the LORD which hallow them.'"

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron and say unto them, 'A priest shall defile himself at the death of none of his people, but upon his kin that is nigh unto him: as his mother, father, son, daughter and brother: and on his sister as long as she is a maid and dwelleth nigh him and was never given to man: on her he may defile himself. read more.
But he shall not make himself unclean upon a ruler of his people to pollute himself withal. They shall make them no baldness upon their heads or shave off the locks of their beards, nor make any marks in their flesh. They shall be holy unto their God, and not pollute the name of their God, for the sacrifices of the LORD and the bread of their God they do offer: therefore they must be holy.

Say unto them, 'Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generation after you, that goeth unto the hallowed things which the children of Israel shall have hallowed unto the LORD, his uncleanness shall be upon him: and that soul shall perish from out of my sight. I am the LORD. None of the seed of Aaron that is a leper or that hath a running sore, shall eat of the hallowed things until he be clean. And whosoever toucheth any unclean soul or man whose seed runneth from him by night, or whosoever toucheth any worm that is unclean to him, or man that is unclean to him, whatsoever uncleanness he hath: read more.
the same soul that hath touched any such thing, shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the hallowed things until he have washed his flesh with water. And then when the sun is down he shall be clean and shall afterward eat of the hallowed things: for they are his food.

And the LORD communed with Moses, saying, "Bid Aaron and his sons that they abstain from the hallowed things of the children of Israel which they have hallowed unto me, that they pollute not mine holy name: for I am the LORD.

If the priest's daughter be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of the hallowed heave offerings.

But if the priest buy any fowl with money he may eat of it, and he also that is born in his house may eat of his bread. Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses OfRightsSlavesPermitted To Eat Offerings

"'There shall no stranger eat of the hallowed things, neither a guest of the priests, or a hired servant. Verse ConceptsLaws Restricting Foreigners

Of a beast that dieth alone or is rent with wild beasts, he shall not eat, to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD. Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofAnimals Torn To PiecesDeath Of CreaturesCorpses Of AnimalsI Am The LordForbidden Foodnatural DeathDeath Of A Family MemberEating Meat

"'They shall take no wife that is an whore, or polluted, or put from her husband: for a priest is holy unto his God. Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTDefilement, By SinPriests, Function In Ot TimesProstitutionDivorceMarriage ControlledMaking People HolyMarriage Kjvwhores