Leviticus 7:21

Touching human, animal, or any unclean defilement and then eating the peace offering brings the penalty of being cut off. God required holiness from those who shared His table.

Cross-references · 23

• Ezek 4:14Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable meat into my mouth!”
• Lev 11:20“‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.
• Lev 15:1–33Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
• Lev 12:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
• Lev 11:10–13All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,
• Lev 5:2–3“‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.
• Exod 12:15“‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
• Num 19:11–16“He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
• Lev 7:25For whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.
• Lev 18:29“‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
• Gen 17:14The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”
• Lev 22:4“‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose offspring goes from him;
• Lev 7:27Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”
• Exod 12:19There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
• Lev 17:10“‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
• Lev 11:24–42“‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
• Deut 14:3You shall not eat any abominable thing.
• Deut 14:10You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.
• Deut 14:12–20But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
• Exod 30:33–38Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’”
• Deut 14:7–8Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
• Lev 17:14For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”
• Lev 7:20but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

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