Lev 22.1-33 tells us about the kedusha of the Mishkan/Temple; regulations for the priests who share in a meal consecrated to God; the quality of the offerings; additional instruction about the the sacrificial animals; and the sanctification of the name of Yehovah. The previous chapter was about the priest and his physical requirements to officiate at the altar. This chapter deals with the physical requirements in order to handle the offerings.
Holiness is…
v 1…Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
v 2…”Tell Aaron and his sons that they separate themselves from the holy things (during a time of impurity) of the children of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so as to not profane my holy name (we are to sanctify his name); I am the Lord (Yehovah).
v 3…Say to them, ‘If any man among all your descendants throughout your generations approaches (to participate) the holy gifts which the sons of Israel dedicate to the Lord while he has an uncleanness (out of place), that person shall be cut off from before me (see v 9). I am the Lord.
v 4…No man, of the descendants of Aaron, who is a leper (metzora, one with tzaraat) or who has a discharge, may eat of the holy gifts until he is lean. And if one touches anything made unclean by a corpse or if a man has a seminal emission,
v 5…or if a man touches any teeming things (a dead reptile or insect) by which he is made unclean (“tamai” or out of place), or any man by whom he is made unclean, whatever his uncleanness,
v 6…a person who touches any such shall be unclean until evening (this contamination is ritual in nature, or else how could a simple time period of the sun going down be the limits of his uncleanness), and he shall not eat of the holy gifts, unless he has bathed his body in water (a picture of being cleansed by the word of God-John 13.10; Eph 5.26).
v 7…But when the sun sets, he shall be clean, and afterward he shall eat of the holy gifts, for it is his food (certain portions of the korbanot were his right to eat, he depended on them for his sustenance).
v 8…He shall not eat an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, becoming unclean by it (this alludes to the fact that Yeshua could not be our Passover lamb if he died a natural death and not “properly killed”). I am the Lord.
v 9…They shall therefore keep my charge, so that they may not bear sin by it (the sanctuary), and die thereby because they profane it; I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
v 10…No common man (zar), however, shall eat the holy gift; a sojourner (t’shav) with a priest or a hired man shall not eat the holy gift.
v 11…But if a priest buys any soul, the purchase of his money (became part of his family), he may eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they may eat of his bread (food).
v 12…And if a priest’s daughter be married to a common man (zar), she shall not eat of the offering of the gifts (being in another family).
v 13…But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or divorced, and has no child, and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s food (bread), nut no common man shall eat of it.
v 14…But if a man eats a holy thing unintentionally, then he shall add a fifth of it (of the value) and shall give the gift to the priest.
v 15…And they shall not profane the holy gifts of the sons of Israel which they offer to the Lord (this law can be dispensable in the case of necessity-1 Sam 21.6),
v 16…and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’ “
v 17…Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
v 18…”Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them, ‘When any man of the house of Israel or of the alien (ger) in Israel, who presents his offering, whether it is any of their votive (vows) or any of their free-will offerings which they present to the Lord for a burnt offering,
v 19…for you to be accepted, it must be a male without defect from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats.
v 20…Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it will not be accepted for you (by Yehovah).
v 21…And when a man offers a sacrifice of peace offerings (Korban Shelem) to the Lord to fulfill a special vow, or for a free-will offering, of the herd or of the flock, it must be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no defects in it.
v 22…Those that are blind or fractured or maimed (Yeshua’s bo9nes were not broken) or having a running sore or eczema or scabs , you shall not offer to the Lord, nor make of them an offering by fire on the altar of the Lord.
v 23…In respect to an ox or a lamb which has an overgrown or stunted member (deformed), you may present it for a free-will offering (, but for a vow it shall not be accepted (either the money value of it can be donated to the sanctuary, or this is an exception to the above law).
v 24…Also, anything with its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the Lord, or sacrifice in your land,
v 25…nor shall you accept any such from the hand of a foreigner (nekar) for offering as the food of your God, for their corruption is in them (by being crushed or bruised), they have a defect, they shall not be accepted for you.’ “
v 26…THen the Lord spoke to Moses, sayiong,
v 27…When an ox, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days with its mother; but on the eighth day and thenceforth it may be accpeted for an offering made by bfire to the Lord.
v 28…But whether it be a cow or a ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day (Messiah is to die in his mature years, by his own free will, and not as an infant like Herod tried to do).
v 29…And when you sacrifice a sacrifice (zevahu zevach) of thanksgiving (todah) unton the Lord, you shall sacrifice it that it may be accepted.
v 30…It shall be eaten on the same day, you shall leave none of it until morning. I am the Lord.
v 31…So you shall keep my commandments (mitzvot), and do them; I am the Lord.
v 32…And you shall not profane my holy name (Yehovah), but I will be sanctified (treated with the kedusha his name has) among the sons of Israel; I am the Lord who sancties (given you a kedusha) you,
v 33…who brought you out from the land of Egypt, to be your God (power); I am the Lord (I am Yehovah).’ “
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