Leviticus 21:6

_THEY SHALL BE HOLY UNTO THEIR GOD, AND NOT PROFANE THE NAME OF THEIR GOD: FOR THE OFFERINGS OF THE LORD MADE BY FIRE, AND THE BREAD OF THEIR GOD, THEY DO OFFER: THEREFORE THEY SHALL BE HOLY._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

The word here and in Leviticus 21:8 rendered “bread”, is the same as is rendered food in Leviticus 3:11, Leviticus 3:16, etc., and meat in Leviticus 22:11. The reader of the English Bible should keep in view that bread, meat, and food, were nearly equivalent terms when our translation was made, and represent no distinctions that exist in the Hebrew....

PART III. SECTION IV. THE UNCLEANNESS AND DISQUALIFICATION OF PRIESTS. EXPOSITION The two remaining chapters of this division of the book (Leviticus 21:1, Leviticus 22:1) deal with the ease of defilements attaching to the priesthood, over and above those which affect other men, whether ceremonial (Leviticus 21:1, Leviticus 21:10-3; Leviticus 22:

THEY SHALL BE HOLY UNTO THEIR GOD,.... Sacred to his service, and wholly given up to it, and not interest themselves in things which hindered from it, or made them unfit for it; and such care becomes the ministers of the word, who should give up themselves to it, and not entangle themselves with other affairs; they should be clean, pure, and holy, that bear the vessels of the Lord, and minister in holy things, and should set an example of purity and holiness to others: AND NOT PROFANE THE NAME OF THEIR GOD; or cause it to be profaned and evil spoken of on their account, or his service to be interrupted, and they who bore his name put upon a level with common persons through their pollutions: FOR THE OFFERINGS OF THE LORD MADE BY FIRE; the burnt offerings, which were offered up to the Lord on the altar of burnt offering every day, besides others on divers occasions: [AND] THE BREAD OF...

4. LAWS FOR THE PRIESTS CHAPTER 21 _ 1. Laws concerning the person of the priests (Leviticus 21:1)_ 2. Laws concerning their family (Leviticus 21:7) 3. Laws concerning the high priest (Leviticus 21:10) 4. Concerning blemishes (Leviticus 21:16) We come now to the special laws and precepts for the priestly class among the people. The preceding laws concerned the nation as such. The requirements of the priests are the highest in the entire book of Leviticus. Responsibility is always according to relationship. The priests, as we have seen before, typify the church. The grace

RESTRICTIONS FOR THE PRIESTS. To approach a corpse was to suffer defilement (_cf._ Numbers 5:2 * Numbers 19*, Tob_2:8 ff., Sir_34:25); this is, therefore, forbidden to the priest, except in the case of the nearest relations; Ezekiel (Ezekiel 44:26) prescribes a period of seven days-' cleansing even in this latter case. The mourning is looked upon as something needed by the dead or due to their memory; a married sister would ordinarily be mourned by her husband this is probably the meaning of the original text of Leviticus 21:4; if his sister were a widow, the priest might act in place of her husband. Similar restrictions are common elsewhere for priests, as also are the prohibitions of the outward signs of mourning. A

HOLY. set apart, or separate. See note on Exodus 3:5. Here,. singular noun. a separated set. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. OFFERINGS. Hebrew. _ishsheh._ App-43. BREAD. food of all kinds. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species). App-6. See note on Leviticus 3:11. of their God. Genitive of relation. App-17. OFFER. bring near. Hebrew. _karab,_ App-43. HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5....

The reason is given for the restriction in Leviticus 21:1, viz. that the name of God, whose ministers they are, may not be polluted by ceremonial uncleanness. _the offerings of the Lord made by fire_ This expression, or its equivalent, is very frequent in P.The words are probably an insertion from that source here, and so in Leviticus 21:21; Leviticus 22:22; Leviticus 22:27; Leviticus 23:13; Leviticus 23:18. the bread of their God

ABSTENTION FROM HEATHEN PRACTICES 21:5, 6 TEXT 21:5, 6 5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy. THOUGHT QUESTIONS 21:5, 6 475. Cutting the hair and the beard surely became an important practice. Why? What is involved in Leviticus 21:5? Discuss. 476. Once again define holiness as here given. Does this relate to our holiness? Consider our _positional_ holiness as versus our _character development_-type holiness. PARAPHRASE 21:5, 6 The priests shall not clip bald spots in their hair or beards, nor cut their flesh. The

LAWS RELATING TO THE PRIESTHOOD AND SACRIFICE The principle laid down in this and the following chapter is the far reaching one, that whatever comes near or is presented to God must be perfect of its kind: see on Exodus 12:5. Priests, therefore, must be free from physical defects or ceremonial impurity, and sacrifices must be without blemish. That this section is put together from different sources is shown by the interchange of the singular and plural and. of the second and third persons (cp. e.g. Leviticus 21:4; Leviticus 21:8) by the introduction of fresh headings (Leviticus 21:1;...