# Leviticus 22 📖: Holy Offerings and Acceptable Sacrifices [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Leviticus Overview]] | [[Leviticus 21]] | [[Leviticus 23]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Regulations for the Eating of Priestly Stipends [[#Verse 01.]] The Lord spoke to Moses: [[#Verse 02.]] “Tell Aaron and his sons that they must deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites, which they consecrate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 03.]] Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings, which the Israelites consecrate to the Lord, while he is impure, that person must be cut off from before me. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 04.]] No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or with a man who has a seminal emission,  [[#Verse 05.]] or with a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or who touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity—  [[#Verse 06.]] the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.  [[#Verse 07.]] When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food. [[#Verse 08.]] He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 09.]] They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them. [[#Verse 10.]] “‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,  [[#Verse 11.]] but if a priest buys a person with his own money, that person may eat the holy offerings, and those born in the priest’s own house may eat his food.  [[#Verse 12.]] If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,  [[#Verse 13.]] but if a priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and she has no children so that she returns to live in her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat from her father’s food, but no lay person may eat it. [[#Verse 14.]] “‘If a man eats a holy offering by mistake, he must add one-fifth to it and give the holy offering to the priest.  [[#Verse 15.]] They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the Lord,  [[#Verse 16.]] and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt when they eat their holy offerings, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’” ### Regulations for Offering Votive and Freewill Offerings [[#Verse 17.]] The Lord spoke to Moses:  [[#Verse 18.]] “Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners in Israel presents his offering for any of the votive or freewill offerings, which they present to the Lord as a burnt offering,  [[#Verse 19.]] if it is to be acceptable for your benefit it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats. [[#Verse 20.]] You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.  [[#Verse 21.]] If a man presents a peace-offering sacrifice to the Lord for a special votive offering or for a freewill offering from the herd or the flock, it must be flawless to be acceptable; it must have no flaw. [[#Verse 22.]] “‘You must not present to the Lord something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. You must not give any of these as a gift on the altar to the Lord.  [[#Verse 23.]] As for an ox or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering.  [[#Verse 24.]] You must not present to the Lord something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; you must not do this in your land.  [[#Verse 25.]] Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’” [[#Verse 26.]] The Lord spoke to Moses:  [[#Verse 27.]] “When an ox, lamb, or goat is born, it must be under the care of its mother seven days, but from the eighth day onward it will be acceptable as an offering gift to the Lord.  [[#Verse 28.]] You must not slaughter an ox or a sheep and its young on the same day.  [[#Verse 29.]] When you sacrifice a thanksgiving offering to the Lord, you must sacrifice it so that it is acceptable for your benefit.  [[#Verse 30.]] On that very day it must be eaten; you must not leave any part of it over until morning. I am the Lord. [[#Verse 31.]] “You must be sure to do my commandments. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 32.]] You must not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,  [[#Verse 33.]] the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord.” ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. A priest who became unclean could not eat holy food until he had washed and evening came (22:6-7). 2. A priest's slave could eat holy food, but a hired worker or guest could not (22:10-11). 3. A priest's daughter married to a non-priest could not eat it, but if she returned home widowed or divorced without children, she could (22:12-13). 4. Someone who ate holy food by mistake repaid it plus a fifth (22:14). 5. An animal with a minor defect could be given as a freewill offering but not for a vow (22:23). 6. Defective animals bought from foreigners were not accepted either (22:25). 7. A newborn animal had to stay with its mother seven days before it could be offered (22:27). 8. An animal and its young could not be slaughtered on the same day (22:28). 9. A thanksgiving sacrifice had to be eaten the same day (22:29-30). 10. The prophet Malachi rebuked priests for offering blind, lame, and sick animals (Malachi 1:8, 13). ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the Lamb without blemish or spot (1 Peter 1:19). Only offerings without defect were accepted (22:20-21), and Jesus is the perfect sacrifice who makes us acceptable to God. ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. Offerings with defects would not be accepted (22:20). Where are you tempted to give God less than your best (Malachi 1:8)? 2. Priests were warned not to treat holy things carelessly (22:2). How can familiarity with sacred things make us careless? 3. God says He sanctifies His people and brought them out of Egypt (22:32-33). How does remembering God's rescue fuel worship? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 2: The priests must treat the holy offerings with care and not profane God's name. - 📖 verses 20-21: Only offerings without defect will be accepted. - 📖 verses 31-32: Keep the Lord's commands and do not profane His holy name. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[1 Peter 01#Verse 18.|1 Peter 1:18-19]] - The blood of a lamb without blemish. - 🔗 [[Malachi 01#Verse 06.|Malachi 1:6-8]] - Offering defective sacrifices dishonors God. - 🔗 [[Hebrews 09#Verse 14.|Hebrews 9:14]] - Christ offered Himself without blemish. - 🔗 [[Romans 12#Verse 01.|Romans 12:1]] - A living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. - 🔗 [[Ephesians 05#Verse 27.|Ephesians 5:27]] - A church without spot or wrinkle. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 📂 Internal Notes