Leviticus 22:1
INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 22
In this chapter several laws are delivered out, forbidding the priests to eat of holy things, when in any uncleanness, or at any time what dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, Le 22:1; also showing who belonging to the priests might or might not eat of the holy things, Le 22:10; and others requiring that whatever offerings were brought by the children, of Israel, they should be perfect and without blemish, Le 22:17; and also declaring what age a creature should be of when sacrificed, and the time when thank offerings were to be eaten, Le 22:26; concluding with an exhortation to observe the commands of God, and sanctify him, and not profane his name, Le 22:31.
Ver. 1. And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Immediately after he had spoken concerning blemishes in priests, and in a continued discourse signifying, that though priests that had blemishes might eat of the holy things, yet neither they, nor even such who had not any, if they were under legal impurity, might eat of them:
saying; as follows.