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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Leviticus 22 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/leviticus/22.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/leviticus/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Leviticus 22</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/21.htm" title="Leviticus 21">◄</a> Leviticus 22 <a href="../leviticus/23.htm" title="Leviticus 23">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">The Offerings Are Holy</h3><p class="par"><span class="v2_22_1"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.1" class="v2_22_1">1</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> told Moses </span><span class="v2_22_2"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.2" class="v2_22_2">2</span>to say to Aaron and his sons:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_22_2">I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God, and I demand that you honor my holy name by showing proper respect for the offerings brought to me by the people of Israel. </span><span class="v2_22_3"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.3" class="v2_22_3">3</span>If any of you are unclean when you accept an offering for me, I will no longer let you serve as a priest. </span><span class="v2_22_4"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.4" class="v2_22_4">4</span>None of you may take part in the sacred meals while you have a skin disease or an infected penis, or after you have been near a dead body or have had a flow of semen, </span><span class="v2_22_5"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.5" class="v2_22_5">5</span>or if you have touched an unclean creature of any sort, including an unclean person. </span><span class="v2_22_6"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.6-Lev.22.7" class="v2_22_6">6-7</span>Once you are unclean, you must take a bath, but you still cannot eat any of the sacred food until evening. </span><span class="v2_22_8"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.8" class="v2_22_8">8</span>I command you not to eat anything that is killed by a wild animal or dies a natural death. This would make you unclean. </span><span class="v2_22_9"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.9" class="v2_22_9">9</span>Obey me, or you will die on duty for disgracing the place of worship. Remember—I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the one who makes a priest holy.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_22_10"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.10" class="v2_22_10">10</span>Only you priests and your families may eat the food offerings; these are too sacred for any of your servants. </span><span class="v2_22_11"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.11" class="v2_22_11">11</span>However, any slave that you own, including those born into your household, may eat this food. </span><span class="v2_22_12"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.12" class="v2_22_12">12</span>If your daughter marries someone who isn't a priest, she can no longer have any of this food. </span><span class="v2_22_13"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.13" class="v2_22_13">13</span>But if she returns to your home, either widowed or divorced, and has no children, she may join in the meal. Only members of a priestly family can eat this food, </span><span class="v2_22_14"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.14" class="v2_22_14">14</span>and anyone else who accidentally does so, must pay for the food plus a fine of 20 percent.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_22_15"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.15" class="v2_22_15">15</span>I warn you not to treat lightly the offerings that are brought by the people of Israel. </span><span class="v2_22_16"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.16" class="v2_22_16">16</span>Don't let them become guilty of eating this sacred food. Remember—I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the one who makes these offerings holy.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Acceptable Sacrifices</h3><p class="par"><span class="v2_22_17"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.17" class="v2_22_17">17</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> told Moses </span><span class="v2_22_18"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.18" class="v2_22_18">18</span>to tell Aaron and his sons and everyone else the rules for offering sacrifices. He said:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_22_18">The animals that are to be completely burned on the altar </span><span class="v2_22_19"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.19-Lev.22.20" class="v2_22_19">19-20</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.22.19-Lev.22.20!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> must have nothing wrong with them, or else I won't accept them. Bulls or rams or goats<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.22.19-Lev.22.20!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> are the animals to be used for these sacrifices.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_22_21"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.21" class="v2_22_21">21</span>When you offer a sacrifice to ask my blessing,<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.22.21!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> there must be nothing wrong with the animal. This is true, whether the sacrifice is part of a promise or something you do voluntarily. </span><span class="v2_22_22"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.22" class="v2_22_22">22</span>Don't offer an animal that is blind or injured or that has an infection or a skin disease. </span><span class="v2_22_23"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.23" class="v2_22_23">23</span>If one of your cattle or lambs has a leg that is longer or shorter than the others, you may offer it voluntarily, but not as part of a promise. </span><span class="v2_22_24"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.24" class="v2_22_24">24</span>As long as you live in this land, don't offer an animal with injured testicles. </span><span class="v2_22_25"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.25" class="v2_22_25">25</span>And don't bring me animals you bought from a foreigner. I won't accept them, because they are no better than one that has something wrong with it.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_22_26"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.26" class="v2_22_26">26</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> told Moses to say:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_22_27"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.27" class="v2_22_27">27</span>Newborn cattle, sheep, or goats must remain with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day, you may send them up in smoke to me, and I will accept the offering. </span><span class="v2_22_28"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.28" class="v2_22_28">28</span>Don't sacrifice a newborn animal and its mother on the same day.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_22_29"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.29" class="v2_22_29">29</span>When you offer a sacrifice to give thanks<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.22.29!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> to me, you must do it in a way that is acceptable. </span><span class="v2_22_30"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.30" class="v2_22_30">30</span>Eat all of the meat that same day and don't save any for the next day. I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God!</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_22_31"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.31" class="v2_22_31">31</span>Obey my laws and teachings—I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v2_22_32"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.22.32-Lev.22.33" class="v2_22_32">32-33</span>I demand respect from the people of Israel, so don't disgrace my holy name. Remember—I am the one who chose you to be priests and rescued all of you from Egypt, so that I would be your <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">22.19,20 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">goats: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 1.1-3.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">22.21 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sacrifice to ask my blessing: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 3.1.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">22.29 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sacrifice to give thanks: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 7.12.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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