“But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.”
But if anyone who is ceremonially unclean eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people. The most severe consequence in the fellowship offering regulations: a ritually impure person who eats the fellowship offering meat is cut off from the covenant community. The fellowship offering that creates communion between God, the priests, and the community cannot be eaten by those who are in a state of ritual impurity — the exclusion from the community meal for the impure communicates that covenant fellowship requires the preparation of cleanliness. The person who participates in the covenant meal while ritually impure has violated the fellowship they are pretending to celebrate.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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