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Lêvi 21

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1 Ðức Giê-hô-va lại phán cùng Môi-se rằng: Hãy nói cùng những thầy tế lễ, là các con trai A-rôn, mà rằng: Thầy tế lễ chớ vì một người chết trong dân sự là làm cho mình ra ô uế;

2 trừ ra vì bà con thân thích mình, vì mẹ, cha, con trai, con gái, anh em mình,

3 và vì chị em ruột mình còn đồng trinh, chưa chồng, thì người được vì chị em đó làm cho mình ra ô uế.

4 Người là đầu trưởng trong dân sự mình, chớ làm mình ra tục mà bị ô uế.

5 Các thầy tế lễ chớ nên làm sói trên đầu; chớ cạo mép râu mình, đừng cắt thịt mình.

6 Họ sẽ biệt riêng ra thánh cho Ðức Chúa Trời mình, và chớ làm ô danh Ngài, vì họ dâng cho Ðức Giê-hô-va các của lễ dùng lửa thiêu; tức là thực vật của Ðức Chúa Trời mình: họ phải nên thánh.

7 Thầy tế lễ chớ nên cưới một người kỵ nữ hay là kẻ dâm ô; cũng chẳng nên cưới người bị chồng để, vì thầy tế lễ đã biệt riêng ra thánh cho Ðức Chúa Trời mình.

8 Vậy, ngươi hãy kể thầy tế lễ như thánh, vì người dâng thực vật của Ðức Chúa Trời người; người sẽ là thánh cho ngươi, vì ta, Ðức Giê-hô-va, là thánh, Ðấng làm cho các ngươi nên thánh vậy.

9 Nếu con gái thầy tế lễ đi dâm ô, tự làm nên kỵ nữ, ấy là làm ô danh cho cha nó, nó phải bị thiêu lửa.

10 Thầy tế lễ được quyền trọng hơn các anh em mình, đã được rưới dầu xức trên đầu mình, được biệt riêng ra thánh, để mặc mình bằng bộ áo thánh, chẳng nên để đầu trần và xé áo mình.

11 Ngươi chớ đi đến cùng một kẻ chết, chớ vì cha hay mẹ mà làm mình ra ô uế.

12 Người chẳng nên đi ra khỏi nơi thánh, đừng làm cho nơi thánh của Ðức Chúa Trời mình ra ô uế, vì cái mão dầu xức của Ðức Chúa Trời vẫn ở trên đầu người: Ta là Ðức Giê-hô-va.

13 Người phải cưới gái đồng trinh làm vợ.

14 Người chẳng nên cưới đàn bà góa, bị để, dâm ô hay là kỵ nữ, nhưng phải cưới một người đồng trinh trong vòng dân sự mình.

15 Người chẳng nên làm ô danh dòng họ mình giữa dân sự người, vì ta là Ðức Giê-hô-va làm cho người nên thánh.

16 Ðức Giê-hô-va còn phán cùng Môi-se rằng:

17 Hãy nói cùng A-rôn mà rằng: Phàm ai trong dòng họ ngươi, trải các đời, có một tật bịnh trong thân thể, chớ đến gần mà dâng thực vật cho Ðức Chúa Trời mình.

18 Phàm ai có một tật không được đến gần, như đây: người mù, què, sệp mũi hay là tứ chi không đều;

19 người gãy chân hay gãy tay,

20 người có bướu hay là lỏng khỏng, có vảy cá mắt hay là có ghẻ chốc, có lát hay là có hòn nang dập.

21 Phàm con cháu thầy tế lễ A-rôn, có tật trong mình, không được đến gần dâng của lễ dùng lửa dâng lên cho Ðức Giê-hô-va. Nếu có một tật trong mình, không được đến gần dâng thực vật cho Ðức Chúa Trời mình.

22 Người được ăn thực vật của Ðức Chúa Trời mình, là các vật chí thánh và các vật biệt riêng ra thánh;

23 nhưng không được đi đến gần bàn thờ, vì có tật nơi mình. Ngươi chớ làm các nơi thánh ta ra ô uế, vì ta, Ðức Giê-hô-va, làm các nơi đó nên thánh.

24 Môi-se nói như vậy cho A-rôn và các con trai người, cùng cho cả dân Y-sơ-ra-ên.

   

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True Christianity # 707

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707. The Lord's words make it very clear that bread means the same thing as flesh: "Jesus took the bread, broke it and gave it [to the disciples] and said, 'This is my body'" (Matthew 26:[26]; Mark 14:[22]; Luke 22:[19]). Also, "the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I am giving for the life of the world" (John 6:51). The Lord also says that he is "the bread of life. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever" (John 6:48, 51, 58).

The same "bread" is also what is meant by the sacrificial animals, which are called bread in the following passages:

The priest will burn them on the altar as the bread of an offering made by fire to Jehovah. (Leviticus 3:11, 16)

The sons of Aaron will be holy before their God. They are not to profane the name of their God, because they make offerings by fire to Jehovah as the bread of their God. You will consecrate him, because he offers the bread of your God. A man of the seed of Aaron in whom there is any defect is not to come forward and offer the bread of his God. (Leviticus 21:6, 8, 17, 21)

Command the children of Israel and say to them, "You are to observe my offering, my bread for the offerings made by fire that exude an aroma of rest. You are to offer them to me at the appointed time. " (Numbers 28:2)

One who has touched something unclean is not to eat of the consecrated offerings; he is to wash his flesh in water. Afterward he may eat of the consecrated offerings, because that is his bread. (Leviticus 22:6-7)

The food to eat from the consecrated offerings was the flesh of the sacrificial animals, which is here also called bread. See also Malachi 1:7.

[2] The food offerings that were part of certain sacrifices were likewise made of grain, and were therefore a kind of bread; they, too, have the same meaning (Leviticus 2:1-11; 6:14-21; 7:9-13; and elsewhere). So does the bread that was on a table inside the tabernacle; it was called the showbread or the bread set before Jehovah (see Exodus 25:30; 40:23; Leviticus 24:5-9).

As the following quotations make clear, bread in the Word means heavenly bread, not physical bread.

Humankind does not live by bread alone; humankind lives by everything that comes from the mouth of Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 8:3)

I will strike the earth with hunger - not hunger for bread or thirst for water but for hearing the words of Jehovah. (Amos 8:11)

Furthermore the term "bread" is used to mean food of every kind (see Leviticus 24:5-9; Exodus 25:30; 40:23; Numbers 4:7; 1 Kings 7:48). And in fact the word "food" itself means spiritual food, as the Lord's words make clear in the following passage:

Work for food - not for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts to eternal life, which the Son of Humankind will give you. (John 6:27)

  
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Leviticus 23

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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'The set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.

3 "'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

4 "'These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.

5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh's Passover.

6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.'"

9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

10 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:

11 and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

14 You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

15 "'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:

16 even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.

17 You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.

18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.

19 You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.

20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.

21 You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

22 "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.'"

23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

24 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

25 You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.'"

26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

27 "However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

28 You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.

29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.

30 Whoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath."

33 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

34 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh.

35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.

36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.

37 "'These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;

38 besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh.

39 "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.

41 You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.

42 You shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in booths,

43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'"

44 Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahweh.