Levítico 22:2

2 que les dijera a Aarón y a sus hijos: «Traten con mucho respeto las ofrendas sagradas que me consagran los israelitas, para no profanar mi santonombre. Yo soy el SEÑOR».

Levítico 22:2 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 22:2

Speak unto Aaron and to his sons
The priests; the children of Israel or the common people are not mentioned, as having no concern in the following laws about eating holy things: that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of
Israel;
both from offering their lawful sacrifices, which was the business of their office when pure, and chiefly from eating that part of them which was their due, and was allowed them; neither of these they were to do, particularly the latter, when they were in any uncleanness, as the following words show: and that, they profane not my holy name [in those things] which they
hallow unto me;
which the children of Israel set apart and devoted to his service; which they would do, by eating their part of them when unclean, and thereby show little reverence to that holy name to which they were devoted; or which the priests themselves sanctified, by offering them to him; for Jarchi says, this takes in the holiness of the priests themselves; but the former seems best, and is confirmed in ( Leviticus 22:3 ) : I [am] the Lord;
who is holy himself, and whose holy things these are, and will be sanctified by those that draw nigh unto him.

Levítico 22:2 In-Context

1 El SEÑOR le ordenó a Moisés

2 que les dijera a Aarón y a sus hijos: «Traten con mucho respeto las ofrendas sagradas que me consagran los israelitas, para no profanar mi santonombre. Yo soy el SEÑOR».

3 También le ordenó decirles: «Si alguno de los descendientes de Aarón está ritualmente impuro y se acerca a las ofrendas que los israelitas consagran al SEÑOR, será eliminado de mi presencia. Yo soy el SEÑOR.

4 »Si un descendiente de Aarón padece de alguna enfermedad infecciosa en la piel, o de derrame seminal, deberá abstenerse de comer de las ofrendas sagradas, hasta que se purifique. Cualquiera que toque un objeto contaminado por el contacto con un cadáver, o que tenga derrame de semen,

5 o que toque algún animal u hombre impuros, cualquiera que sea la impureza,