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'May' in the Bible

if his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to bring a male without any defect. He is to present it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. At the appointed time, it is to be presented in the presence of the LORD so that he may be accepted.

Verse ConceptsLaw, OtSacrifices At The DoorwayMale AnimalsPerfect Sacrifices

"Any grain offering that you bring to the LORD is not to be prepared with yeast, because anything with leaven and honey may not be offered in smoke as an offering by fire to the LORD.

Verse ConceptsLeavenFoodGrain OfferingUnleavened BreadYeastHoneyMeat offerings

You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of first fruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar for a pleasing aroma."

Verse ConceptsLeavenedRefreshing GodFirst fruits

When he inadvertently touches the uncleanness of a human being, whatever his uncleanness that made him unclean may be, when he himself comes to know about it, he will be guilty.

Verse ConceptsIgnorance Of EvilSin Made Known

Any male among the priests may eat it, provided that it is eaten at a sacred place as a most holy thing.

Verse ConceptsMen WorshippingFood For Priests DefinedPermitted To Eat Offerings

"Meat that comes in contact with a ceremonially unclean thing is not to be eaten. Incinerate it instead. As for ceremonially clean meat, anyone who is clean may eat it.

Verse ConceptsSanitation, DisinfectionTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean SpiritsForbidden FoodUnclean Animals

The carcass of an animal that died of its own and an animal torn by wild beast may be used for any purpose except for eating.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Torn To PiecesFat Of AnimalsDeath Of CreaturesForbidden FoodUseful Things

Then he told Aaron and his sons, "Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. You may eat it there, along with the bread that is in the basket for consecration, just as I've commanded when I told him, "Aaron and his sons may eat of it,

Verse ConceptsSacrifices At The DoorwayFood For Priests Defined

Then Moses said, "This is what the LORD commanded you to do so that the glory of the LORD may be revealed to you."

Verse ConceptsGlory, Revelation OfGod Appearing

As to the breast and thigh raised offerings, you and your sons and daughters with you may eat them at a clean place, because they belong to you and are your sons' prescribed portions and were taken from the sacrifices of peace offering presented by the Israelis.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersFellowship OfferingWave OfferingsAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingSwingingThighs Of AnimalsPermitted To Eat Offerings

"Why didn't you eat the sin offering at the sacred place? It's most holy and he has given it to you so that you may bear the punishment for the iniquity of the entire congregation and make atonement for them in the LORD's presence.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltSin BearerFood For Priests DefinedWhy Do People Not Do This?Priests Atoning

"Tell the Israelis that these are the living creatures that you may eat among the animals of the earth:

Verse ConceptsFood DefinedRelation Of Animals To Man

"You may eat anything that lives in the water that is, you may eat anything that has fins and scales either from the seas or from the rivers.

Verse ConceptsSea DwellersClean FoodBrooksFishThe SeaEating Meatpork

However, you may eat winged creatures that crawl on four legs that extend over its head and by which it hops on the ground.

Verse ConceptsFeet Of CreaturesClean Food

These creatures that you may eat include the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.

Verse ConceptsInsectsLocustsGrasshoppersAccording To Its KindClean FoodKinds Of Living ThingsWeedbugs

"Any food that may be eaten, but into which water has soaked, becomes unclean. Any drink that may be drunk in any of these vessels becomes unclean,

Verse ConceptsMoist ThingsWeed

"If any of the animals that you may eat dies, the one who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean Until EveningRules About Corpses

"But if the priest comes in to conduct an examination and determines that the contagion has not spread throughout the house after the house has been repaired, then the priest may declare the house clean, because the contagion has been cleansed.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingInspectingmold

The one who sent away the male goat as a scapegoat is to wash his clothes and bathe his body with water. After doing so, he may enter the camp.

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfScapegoatClean ClothesTaking Away Evil

The one who burns them is to wash his clothes and bathe his body with water. After doing so, he may enter the camp."

Verse ConceptsClean Clothes

"This statute is required so that the Israelis may bring their sacrifices that they have been sacrificing to the LORD in the open field to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, where they are to slaughter their peace offering to the LORD.

Verse ConceptsSacrifices At The Doorway

because the life of the flesh is in the blood itself, and I myself have given it to you all so that atonement may be made for your souls on the altar, since the blood itself makes atonement through the life that is in it.

Verse ConceptsAtonementExpiationBlood Of SacrificesAtonement, Types OfAtonement, in OTKillingAnimal LifeMoses, Significance OfSin, God's Remedy ForLifebloodAtoning By SacrificesGifts Of GodOther Gifts Of GodAnimals Having A SoulBloodThe SoulThe Blood Of Jesus

"If a person from the house of Israel or a resident alien who lives among you has hunted live game or a bird that may be eaten, he is to extract its blood and cover it with soil,

Verse ConceptsHuntingLifebloodForeigners Included In The Law

Anyone who does any of these detestable things whoever the person may be is to be eliminated from contact with his people.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsExcommunicationDeath Penalty For Sexual SinThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

But on the fifth year, you may eat its fruits to increase its produce for you."

Verse ConceptsIncreasing FruitThe Lord Is GodFifthFood Permitted

virgin sister (who is a near relative of him and did not have a husband he may defile himself for her).

Verse ConceptsBrothersSinglenessvirginity

However, he may eat the food of his God, including the most holy and the holy offerings,

Verse ConceptsPermitted To Eat Offerings

or who becomes unclean by touching a creeping creature or another human being, whatever the uncleanness may be

Verse ConceptsCrawling

When the sun has gone down and he has been cleansed, he may eat of the sacred things, since that's his food.

Verse ConceptsSunsetsFood For Priests Defined

If a priest acquires a slave as property with his own money, he may eat with him. Those who were born in his house may eat his food.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses OfRightsSlavesPermitted To Eat Offerings

If the priest's daughter is a widow, or is divorced and childless, so that she has to return to her father's house as in her younger days, she may eat her father's food, but no resident alien may eat it.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessDivorceFathers And Daughters

"You may offer a bull or lamb that has one limb longer than the other or that is stunted as a free will offering, but it's not acceptable in fulfillment of a promise.

Verse ConceptsMaking VowsBlemished CreaturesRegulating SacrificesFree Will

"Whenever a bull, a sheep, or a goat is born, it is to remain for seven days under the care of its mother. But on the eighth day onwards, it may be accepted as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysYoung AnimalAnimal MothersLess Than A Year OldSeven Days For Legal PurposesRegulating Sacrifices

For six years you may plant your fields, and for six years you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce.

Verse ConceptsCropsPruningSix YearsLiteral Planting

You may take the Sabbath produce of the land for your food you, your male and maid servants, your hired laborers, and the resident alien with you.

Verse ConceptsHiringStrangers

because it's the jubilee it's sacred for you. But you may eat its produce from the field.

Verse ConceptsHoly Times

According to the number of years after the jubilee, you may buy from your neighbor. And according to the number of years with crops, he may sell to you.

Verse ConceptsAccording To Time

"Observe my statutes and keep my ordinances. Do them so that you may live securely in the land.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!Obedience

"Now if you ask, "What will we eat during the seventh year? After all, we may not plant or even gather our produce!'

Verse ConceptsSeeking Food

If he's not able to redeem it back for himself, then what he sold is to remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee, it is to be returned so he may return to his property.

Verse ConceptsYearsReversion Of Things

"If a person sells a residential house in a walled city, he is to redeem it within the year in which it was sold. He may have right to its redemption for a full year.

Verse ConceptsRelationships And Dating

However, the houses in the villages that don't have walls around them are to be categorized along with the fields of the land they may be redeemed and returned in the jubilee.

Verse ConceptsVillagesThe CountrysideReversion Of Things

Then he and his children with him may leave to return to his family and his ancestor's inheritance.

Verse ConceptsPermission To Return Home

"As for your male and maid slaves who will be with you, you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations.

Verse ConceptsMaking SlavesDealing With The Nationsslavery

You may also buy from resident aliens who live among you and their families who are with you, whom they fathered in your land. They may become your property.

Verse ConceptsForeignersMaking SlavesLaws Restricting ForeignersPropertyImmigrantsAliens

You may give them as inherited property to your children after you, to own as properties in perpetuity. You may make bond slaves of them, but no one is to rule over his fellow Israeli with harshness.

Verse ConceptsSlavery, In OtPropertyslavery

he has the right to be redeemed after he sells himself. One of his brothers may redeem him.

Verse ConceptsRedemptionredeemed

His uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him or any blood relative from his tribe may redeem him. If he becomes rich, then he may redeem himself.

Verse ConceptsGetting Rich

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