25 Bible Verses about Ritual Law

Therefore shall they keep my charge, and shall not bear, for it, sin, and die therein, when they profane it, - I - Yahweh, am hallowing them.

That ye may make a difference, between the sacred and the common, - and between the unclean and the clean;

Say unto them - Unto your generations, as touching any man who cometh near from among any of your seed, unto the hallowed things which the sons of Israel may hallow unto Yahweh, while his uncleanness is upon him, then shall that person be cut off from before me - I, am Yahweh.

And Yahweh said unto Moses, Say unto the priests, the sons of Aaron, - yea thou shalt say unto them, For a dead person, shall no one make himself unclean among his people: Saving for his kin, that are near unto him, for his mother or for his father, or for his son or for his daughter, or for his brother; or for his sister, a virgin who is near unto him, who belongeth not unto a husband, - for her, he may make himself unclean:

He that toucheth the dead, even any human person, shall be unclean seven days.

whatsoever hath in it a blemish, shall ye not bring near, - for it shall not he accepted for you. And, whosoever would bring near a peace-offering unto Yahweh, to consecrate a vow or as a freewill-offering with a bullock or a sheep, without defect, shall it be, to be accepted, no, blemish, shall be therein. Blind, or broken, or rent, or having a running sore, or scurvy, or scab, ye shall not bring these near unto Yahweh, - and no, altar-flame, shall ye present therefrom upon the altar, unto Yahweh.read more.
Whether an ox or a lamb long or short limb, as a free-will offering, thou mayest offer it, but, for a vow, it shall not he accepted. But that which is bruised in the stones or broken therein, or torn or cut, shall ye neither bring ear unto Yahweh, nor on your own land, shall ye offer. Even at the hand of the son of a stranger, shall ye not bring near the food of your God of any of these, - for, their damage is in them, a blemish, is in them, they shall not be accepted for you.

Speak unto all the assembly of the sons of Israel and thou shalt say unto them - Holy, shall ye be, - For holy, am I - Yahweh - your God

Therefore shall ye be unto me, holy persons, for, holy, am, I - Yahweh, - Therefore have I distinguished you from the peoples, that ye may be mine.

For, I - Yahweh, am your God, therefore shall ye hallow yourselves and remain holy; for, holy, am, I, - therefore shall ye not make your persons unclean, with any creeping thing that crawleth upon the earth; for, I - Yahweh, am he that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, that I might become your God, - therefore shall ye be holy, for, holy, am, I.

Therefore shall ye hallow yourselves and be holy, - Because I - Yahweh, am your God.

Therefore shalt thou hold him as holy, for the food of thy God, doth he bring near, - Holy, shall he be to thee, For, holy, am I - Yahweh, who am making you holy.

So shall ye not profane my holy name, So shall I be hallowed in the midst of the sons of Israel, - I, am Yahweh, who am hallowing you;

This, is the law of beast and of bird, and of every living soul that moveth in the waters, - and as to every soul that creepeth upon the earth: That ye may make a difference - between the unclean and the clean, - and between the living thing that may be eaten, and the living thing which may not be eaten.

Of all the clean beasts, shalt thou take to thee by sevens, a male and his female, - and, of the beasts that are not clean,, shall be two a male and his female.

And Noah builded an altar to Yahweh, - and took of all the clean beasts and of all the clean birds, and caused ascending Sacrifices to go up on the altar.

And Yahweh spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying unto them: Speak ye unto the sons of Israel saying, - These are the living things which ye may eat, of all the beasts which are upon the earth: Whatsoever parteth the hoof and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud among beasts, that, may ye eat.read more.
Nevertheless, these, shall ye not eat, of them that chew the cud, and of them that part the hoof, - the camel, because though he, cheweth the cud, yet, the hoof, he parteth not, unclean, he is to you; And, the coney, because, though he cheweth the cud, yet, the hoof, he parteth not, - unclean, he is to you; And the hare, because though she cheweth the cud, yet the hoof, she parteth not, - unclean, she is to you; And, the swine, because though he parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, yet, the cud, he cheweth not, - unclean, he is to you; Of their flesh, shall ye not eat, and, their carcase, shall ye not touch, - unclean, they are to you. these, may ye eat, of all that are in the waters, - all that have fins and scales in the waters, in the seas and in the rivers, them, may ye eat. But, all that have not fins and scales, in the seas and in the rivers, of all that swarm in the waters, and of all the living souls that are in the waters, an abomination, they are unto you; and an abomination, shall they remain to you, - of their flesh, ye shall not eat, and their carcases, shall ye abhor. Whatsoever hath not fins and scales in the waters, an abomination, it is unto you. And, these, shall ye abhor of birds, they shall not be eaten, an abomination, they are, - the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey; and the vulture, and the falcon, after its kind; every raven, after its kind; and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, - and the hawk after its kind; and the pelican and the gannet, and the bittern; and the swan and the vomiting pelican and the little vulture; and the stork, and the parrot, after its kind, - and the mountain-cock and the bat. Every creeping thing that flieth, that goeth on all-fours, an abomination, it is unto you. Nevertheless, these, may ye eat, of all creeping things that fly, that go on all-fours, - such as have legs above their feet, to leap therewith, upon the earth - these of them, may ye eat: the swarming-locust after its kind, and the devouring locust after its kind, - and the chargol-locust after its kind, and the chagab-locust after its kind. But every other creeping thing that flieth, which hath four feet, an abomination, it is unto you;

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. These, are the beasts which ye may eat, - the ox, the young of sheep, and the young of goats; the hart and the gazelle and the roebuck, - and the wild goat and the mountain goat, and the wild ox, and the mountain sheep.read more.
And every beast that parteth the hoof and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, chewing the cud, among beasts, the same, shall ye eat. Nevertheless these, shall ye not eat, of them that chew the cud, and of them that divide the cloven hoof, - the camel and the hare and the rabbit for, though they do chew the cud, yet the hoof, do they not part, unclean, they are unto you. And, the swine, because though he doth divide the hoof, yet he cheweth not the cud, unclean, he is unto you, - of their flesh, shall ye not eat, and their carcases, shall ye not touch. These, may ye eat of all that that are in the waters, - whatsoever hath fins and scales, ye may eat; and, whatsoever hath not, fins and scales, ye may not eat, - unclean, it is unto you. Of every clean bird, ye may eat; saving these, of which ye may not eat, - the eagle and the ossifrage and the osprey; and the vulture and the kite, and the falcon after its kind; and every raven after its kind; and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich and the sea-gull, - and the hawk, after its kind; and the pelican and the bittern, and the swan; and the vomiting pelican and the little vulture and the gannet; and the stork, and the parrot, after its kind, - and the mountain-cock, and the bat. And, as for every creeping thing that flieth, unclean, it is unto you, - they, shall not be eaten. All clean fowls, ye may eat.

Ye shall not eat any thing that dieth of itself: to the sojourner who is within thy gates, mayest thou give it and he may eat it or thou mayest sell it to a foreigner, for a holy people, art thou unto Yahweh thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid, in the milk of its dam.

Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, A woman when she conceiveth seed and giveth birth to a male child, then shall she be unclean seven days, according to the days of her removal in her sickness shall she be unclean. And, on the eighth day, shall the flesh of his foreskin be circumcised. And, for thirty-three days, shall she continue in the blood of purification, - no hallowed thing, shall she touch, and, into the sanctuary, shall she not enter, until her days of purification are fulfilled.read more.
But if, a female child, she bear, then shall she be unclean two weeks as in her removal, - and, for sixty-six days, shall she continue in the blood of purification.

And, when the days of their purification, according to the law of Moses, were fulfilled, they took him up into Jerusalem, to present him unto the Lord, - according as it is written in the law of the Lord - Every male that is a firstborn, Holy unto the Lord, shall be called, and to give a sacrifice, according to that which is said in the law of the Lord - A pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons.

Higher up, saying - Sacrifices, and offerings, and whole-burnt-offerings, and sacrifices for sins, thou willedst not, neither delightedst in, - the which, according to the law, are offered, Then, hath he said - Lo! I am come! to do, thy will: - he taketh away the first, that, the second, he may establish: By which will, we have been made holy, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.

The enmity, in his flesh - the law of commandments in decrees - bringing to nought, - that, the two, he might create in himself, into one man of new mould, making peace.

Having blotted out the handwriting against us by the decrees, which was hostile to us, - and hath taken away, the same, out of the midst, nailing it up to the cross:

If indeed, therefore, there had been, a perfecting through means of the Levitical priesthood, - for, the people, thereon, have had based a code of laws, what further need, according to the rank of Melchizedek, for a different priest to be raised up, and, not according to the rank of Aaron, to be designated?

For the law, having in a shadow of the destined good things, not the very image of the things, they can never, with the same sacrifices which year by year they offer evermore, make them who approach, perfect; Else would they not, in that case, have ceased being offered, by reason of those rendering the divine service having no further conscience at all of sins, being once for all purified? But, in them, is a recalling to mind of sins, year by year,