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Ezekiel 22:8
You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.
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Leviticus 10:10
You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,
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1 Samuel 2 12-1 Samuel 2 17
Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the Lord.The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand,and he would thrust it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot. All that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing,“ Give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you but only raw.”And if the man said to him,“ Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish,” he would say,“ No, you must give it now, and if not, I will take it by force.”Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the Lord, for the men treated the offering of the Lord with contempt.
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Ezekiel 44:23
They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.
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Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say,‘ Where is the Lord?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.
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Malachi 2:8
But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,
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Micah 3:11-12
Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the Lord and say,“ Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us.”Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.
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Ezekiel 36:20
But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them,‘ These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’
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1 Samuel 2 22
Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
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Zephaniah 3:3-4
Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law.
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1 Samuel 2 29
Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded for my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’
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Haggai 2:11-14
“ Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests about the law:‘ If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered and said,“ No.”Then Haggai said,“ If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said,“ It does become unclean.”Then Haggai answered and said,“ So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the Lord, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.
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Leviticus 20:25
You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.
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Lamentations 4:13
This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.
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Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore thus says the Lord:“ If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.
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Leviticus 10:1-3
Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them.And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.Then Moses said to Aaron,“ This is what the Lord has said:‘ Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” And Aaron held his peace.
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Ezekiel 20:12-13
Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned.“ Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
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Malachi 1:6-8
“ A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say,‘ How have we despised your name?’By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say,‘ How have we polluted you?’ By saying that the Lord’s table may be despised.When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the Lord of hosts.
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Malachi 2:1-3
“ And now, O priests, this command is for you.If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.
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Leviticus 22:2-33
“ Speak to Aaron and his sons so that they abstain from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name: I am the Lord.Say to them,‘ If any one of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to the Lord, while he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord.None of the offspring of Aaron who has a leprous disease or a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or a man who has had an emission of semen,and whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or a person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be—the person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.When the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because they are his food.He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the Lord.’They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the Lord who sanctifies them.“ A lay person shall not eat of a holy thing; no foreign guest of the priest or hired worker shall eat of a holy thing,but if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food.If a priest’s daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy things.But if a priest’s daughter is widowed or divorced and has no child and returns to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food; yet no lay person shall eat of it.And if anyone eats of a holy thing unintentionally, he shall add the fifth of its value to it and give the holy thing to the priest.They shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, which they contribute to the Lord,and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.”And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents a burnt offering as his offering, for any of their vows or freewill offerings that they offer to the Lord,if it is to be accepted for you it shall be a male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you.And when anyone offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it.Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the Lord or give them to the Lord as a food offering on the altar.You may present a bull or a lamb that has a part too long or too short for a freewill offering, but for a vow offering it cannot be accepted.Any animal that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut you shall not offer to the Lord; you shall not do it within your land,neither shall you offer as the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ When an ox or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as a food offering to the Lord.But you shall not kill an ox or a sheep and her young in one day.And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until morning: I am the Lord.“ So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the Lord.And you shall not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord.”
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Jeremiah 2:26-27
“ As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets,who say to a tree,‘ You are my father,’ and to a stone,‘ You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say,‘ Arise and save us!’
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Leviticus 11:47
to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.
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Romans 2:24
For, as it is written,“ The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”