216 LEVITICUS XXI—OF BLEMISHES IN PRIESTS head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; 11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD. 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. 15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him. 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. 18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, 19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, 20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; 21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. 23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. 24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel. Chapter 22 1 The priests in their uncleanness must abstain from the holy things. 6 How they shall be cleansed. 10 Who of 17 The sacrifices must be without blemish. 26 The age of the sacriND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD. 3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that the priest's house may eat of the holy things. Moses Drives Off the Shepherds FROM THE BIBLICAL SERIES BY HEINRICH SCHOPIN, DIED 1880. T "And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds."-Ex., 2, 19. VHOUGH Reuel was priest of the land, his daughters received scant respect from the fierce shepherds round about. Some of these would have driven the women from the well until their own flocks were watered. That seems even to have been the ordinary custom; for afterward Reuel expressed wonder that his daughters had finished with such speed. But with something of the fiery vigor he had shown in Egypt, Moses drove off the shepherds, stood forth as a defender for the women, and watered their flocks. Such a man as he, recently a leader in the foremost civilization of the world, naturally became at once a person of mark among these simple people. The daughters of Reuel knew at once whence he must have come, and spoke of him as an Egyptian. The priest invited him to his home with honor, “And Moses was content to dwell” in that bare land. He wedded Zipporah, one of the maidens he had rescued at the well, and remained quietly in Midian for forty years, the second period of his life. |