利未記22:10-16

22:10 「凡外人不可吃聖物；寄居在祭司家的，或是雇工人，都不可吃聖物；
22:11 倘若祭司買人，是他的錢買的，那人就可以吃聖物；生在他家的人也可以吃。
22:12 祭司的女兒若嫁外人，就不可吃舉祭的聖物。
22:13 但祭司的女兒若是寡婦，或是被休的，沒有孩子，又歸回父家，與她青年一樣，就可以吃她父親的食物；只是外人不可吃。
22:14 若有人誤吃了聖物，要照聖物的原數加上五分之一交給祭司。
22:15 祭司不可褻瀆以色列人所獻給耶和華的聖物，
22:16 免得他們在吃聖物上自取罪孽，因為我是叫他們成聖的耶和華。」

¹⁰ “‘No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired worker eat it. ¹¹ But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if slaves are born in his household, they may eat his food. ¹² If a priest’s daughter marries anyone other than a priest, she may not eat any of the sacred contributions. ¹³ But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father’s household as in her youth, she may eat her father’s food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat it.

¹⁴ “‘Anyone who eats a sacred offering by mistake must make restitution to the priest for the offering and add a fifth of the value to it. ¹⁵ The priests must not desecrate the sacred offerings the Israelites present to the Lord ¹⁶ by allowing them to eat the sacred offerings and so bring upon them guilt requiring payment. I am the Lord, who makes them holy.’”

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    上帝使利未人成為聖潔，也因為這樣他們和他們的家人，才有資格吃聖物！正如今日要受洗歸入主的名下的人，才可以領受聖餐一樣。因為聖餐的餅和杯代表耶穌基督的身體和寶血，吃和喝的時候要紀念主耶穌的犧牲！而利未人吃獻祭的務時，要紀念自己是歸耶和華為聖！

    基督徒是領受耶穌基督的身體和寶血，也是歸上帝為聖！主耶穌更應許說：「我實實在在地告訴你們，你們若不吃人子的肉，不喝人子的血，就沒有生命在你們裡面。吃我肉、喝我血的人就有永生，在末日我要叫他復活。」（約翰福音6:53-54）

   

    利未人吃聖物只是維持肉體的生命，然而我們吃耶穌基督的肉和血確有永生！我們是不是比利未人更有福份嗎？因為我們不只復活，更要與基督同坐王呢！這是利未人沒有享受到的。