The Priests and the Holy Things (Lev. 22)

For the last few weeks we have been looking at how God called Israel to be holy. Now we are looking at the priests. The land is holy–yet the there is a special holiness focused on the tabernacle. Even so, the people are holy – yet there is a special holiness focused on the priests.

Chapters 21-22 focus on four things.

The first two we saw last week, talking about the holy priests:

v1-15 avoiding defilement
v16-24 physical holiness

Now tonight, we turn to holy things:

v1-16 who may partake of the holy things
v17-30 what animals may be offered as holy sacrifices

concluding with a focus on God holy name.

Each of the four sections is prefaced with "And the LORD said to Moses..."