“They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the Lord do sanctify them.”
The priests are to keep my requirements so they do not become guilty and die for treating them with contempt. I am the Lord, who makes them holy. The keeping of the priestly food requirements is a matter of life and death: the contemptuous treatment of the sacred food regulations creates guilt that can result in death. The I am the Lord, who makes them holy formula closes the warning: the holiness that the priest must maintain in relation to the sacred food is the holiness that God gives. The priest who violates the conditions of the holy food despises the holiness God bestowed.
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