86. DO NOT remove the poles from the Ark of the Covenant. (Exodus 25:15)
App: Never remove the poles from the Ark of the Covenant (the most holy item of existence, God's personal communication device) was lost to history (possibly in Ethiopia)31
87. DO NOT remove the breastplate from the ephod. (Exodus 28:28)
App: In other words, priest were not to remove their designer Priestly breastplate with the colorful stones on it from the ephod (the embroidered linen garment) it was attached to
88. DO NOT make the Holy Garments improperly, so that they tear. (Exodus 28:32)
App: It was a sin to make improper holy garments that tore, quality craftsmanship of clothing was and is part of God's laws
ARK OF THE COVENANT “REPLICA” WITH POLES
Sacrifices and Holy Tithes and Offerings
89. DO NOT offer sacrifices or tithes and offerings, except to the sanctuary of God. (Deuteronomy 12:13-14)
App: DO NOT offer tithes to anywhere you want, you are to limit tithes and offerings only to commandment keeping sanctuaries
90. DO NOT offer consecrated animals except to the sanctuary of God. (Leviticus 17:3-7)
App: You were not allowed to sacrifice sacred or holy animals (by consecration) anywhere else but the temple
91. DO NOT sanctify a blemished animal as an offering to God. (Leviticus 22:20, 22, 24)
App: You cannot consecrate or declare an animal with a blemish (any bodily or mental imperfection) holy or sacred
92. DO NOT slaughter a blemished animal as an offering to God. (Leviticus 22:22)
App: As above if the animal has a blemish (any health imperfection) and is not holy DO NOT offer it to God at all, it is a sin
93. DO NOT sprinkle the blood of a blemished animal on the altar of God. (Leviticus 22:19-24)
App: Don't sprinkle the blood of the unholy blemished animal anywhere on the altar, it is a sin
94. DO NOT burn the sacrificial portions of a blemished animal. (Leviticus 22:22)
App: DO NOT burn any parts of the imperfect and unconsecrated animal on the altar of God
95. DO NOT offer an animal with even a temporary blemish. (Deuteronomy 17:1)
App: Even if the blemish is a temporary one, the animal cannot be offered to God as Holy
96. DO NOT accept any offering from a Gentile. (Leviticus 22:25)
App: DO NOT accept an animal offering from a Gentile due to them being without God's commandments and having blemishes within them as Gentiles, the animal will already be considered blemished coming from a Gentile (Yeshua and many other Israelites were angry with the temple priest for their willingness to sacrifice several young bullocks to Caesar on God's altar on a regular basis to appease Rome)
97. DO NOT inflict a blemish on an animal consecrated as an offering. (Leviticus 22:21)
App: It is a sin to inflict any damage, even possibly by mistake, on a consecrated animal that's dedicated for sacrifice once it's deemed holy or sacred
98. DO NOT offer any leaven or honey on the altar. (Leviticus 2:11)
App: These both are No-No ingredients for the altar according to God's laws. DO NOT add these ingredients to any offering that is to be consumed by fire
99. DO NOT offer a meat sacrifice without salt. (Leviticus 2:13)
App: All meat sacrifices were to be seasoned with salt, not only for a religious reason but also because the priest were permitted to eat the holy barbeque after the sacrifices
100. DO NOT acquire any financial gain from prostitutes or non-commandment keepers for the sanctuary of God. (Deuteronomy 23:18)
App: Money from non-commandment keepers (biblically referred to as dogs) and prostitutes is not to be brought into the house of the Lord because money from these sources are an abomination to God
101. DO NOT kill an animal and its young on the same day. (Leviticus 22:28)
App: God cares for the animals, even today, you are not to kill any animal and its young on the same day
102. DO NOT use olive oil in the Sin offering of the poor man. (Leviticus 5:11)
App: Sin offerings don't require olive oil regardless of how much money the person has, don't let the wording throw you off because it says, “of a poor man”
103. DO NOT use frankincense in the Sin offering of the poor man. (Leviticus 5:11)
App: Again, Sin offerings don't require frankincense either regardless of wealth status
104. DO NOT use olive oil in the grain offering of jealousy. (Numbers 5:15)
App: No olive oil on the grain offering of jealousy (very interesting how this one works, it ends with God judging whether the woman cheated on her husband or not by cursing her with basically a stomach tumor {disease similar to dropsy} if she is guilty)
105. DO NOT use frankincense in the grain offering of jealousy. (Numbers 5:15)
App: No frankincense in grain offering of jealousy. Basically, no oil or perfume is usually involved in a negative offering involving sin or jealousy
106. DO NOT make substitutes for any vowed offerings unless it is a holy substitute for holy offering. (Leviticus 27:10)
App: You cannot substitute a non-holy offering for a holy one. Only holy ones for holy ones can be evenly exchanged
107. DO NOT dedicate the firstborn of an animal since it already belongs to God and must already be given to the priests. (Leviticus 27:26)
App: It would be cheating to try and sanctify a firstborn animal because the firstborn animal already belongs to God at birth. You must make another blemish free offering in addition to the first-born animal eventually
108. DO NOT redeem the firstborn of clean animals, since they belong to God and must be given to the priests. (Numbers 18:17-18)
App: You cannot buy back the first born of animals since it already belongs to God anyway and he doesn't allow re-sales of his property back to the original owner, in this particular case. These animals are to be given to the priests
109. DO NOT redeem the tithes, they belong to God and must be given to the priests. (Leviticus 27:32-33)
App: DO NOT try to get your tithes back after you give them, DO NOT redeem them (get them back) and they shall be holy
110. DO NOT sell dedicated property, it belongs to God and must be given to the priests. (Leviticus 27:21, 28)
App: Once a field or piece of property is devoted to God it then belongs to the priests and is declared holy
111. DO NOT redeem dedicated property after the specified time; it belongs to God and must be given to the priests. (Leviticus 27:28)
App: Property that has been dedicated to God is not to be sold back to the original owner because it now belongs to God and has been given to the priests. This dedication forgoes the period of time that a normal seller would have to buy it back
112. DO NOT sever the head of a bird (with a knife) offered as a Sin Offering. (Leviticus 5:7-8)
App: You were to tear the head from the sin offering bird with only the use of your hands or otherwise it would be considered an incorrect sin offering under the circumstances.
113. DO NOT work with a firstling animal. (Deuteronomy 15:19)
App: Since a firstling/firstborn animal is automatically destined to be declared holy you are not to put it to work under any circumstances
114. DO NOT shear the firstling sheep. (Deuteronomy 15:19)
App: Since the firstling/firstborn sheep is destined to be declared holy you are not permitted to shear or cut off any of his wool under any circumstances. The sheep is to be dedicated to God at the temple with all wool intact
115. DO NOT offer the Passover lamb with leaven. (Exodus 34:25)
App: Leaven (rising yeast or baking powder) in bread products is representative of sin. DO NOT attempt to offer the Passover lamb with any trace of (yeast/baking powder) leaven present
116. DO NOT allow the sacrificial fat of the Passover lamb to remain overnight. (Exodus 23:18)
App: It was a sin to leave out in the open the sacrificial fat of the Passover lamb until the next morning
117. DO NOT allow the meat of the Passover lamb to remain overnight. (Exodus 12:10)
App: You are to eat the roasted lamb meat and if any remains the next morning it must be burned with fire because it is not allowed to remain overnight
118. DO NOT leave any part of the additional offering overnight. (Deuteronomy 16:4)
App: Nothing sacrificed or offered to God is to remain overnight until morning
119. DO NOT allow any part of the second Passover lamb to remain overnight. (Numbers 9:12)
App: You are not allowed to let it stay overnight until morning nor break any bones of the lamb while eating it
120. DO NOT leave any part of the thanksgiving offering until morning. (Leviticus 22:29-30)
App: Again, any offering given must be eaten up that same day and leave none until the next day
121. DO NOT break any bones of the Passover Lamb. (Exodus 12:46)
App: You can eat the Passover lamb but you cannot transport the cooked meat and you are not to break any bones of the lamb at any time even after cooking it
122. DO NOT break any bones of the second Passover Lamb. (Numbers 9:12)
App: Same applies to the to the second Passover lamb that applied to the first Passover lamb
123. DO NOT remove the Passover Lamb from the sanctuary where it is eaten. (Exodus 12:46)
App: You cannot remove the Passover lamb from the house once it is there to be cooked and offered
124. DO NOT bake the remainder of the grain offering with leaven. (Leviticus 6:17)
App: DO NOT bake bread with leaven in the tabernacle or any holy place
125. DO NOT eat the Passover Lamb raw or boiled. (Exodus 12:9)
App: The Passover lamb is only to be roasted fully cooked and by no means rare or boiled or as a soup
126. DO NOT allow the stranger or hired servant to eat of the Passover Lamb. (Exodus 12:45)
App: Servants/slaves that were bought and circumcised (converted or Hebrew) could eat the Passover lamb but foreigners/strangers who were hired servants had to eat something else because they were not allowed to eat the Passover lamb since it was a law that God commanded for Israel only to partake of and not for non-commandment keepers
127. DO NOT allow any uncircumcised person to eat of the Passover Lamb. (Exodus 12:48)
App: Uncircumcised is a synonym for non-commandment keeper. Uncircumcised literally means that you still have the foreskin of your penis but if you follow the commandments you would have had that foreskin surgically removed already
128. DO NOT allow one that has fallen away (become a stranger) to eat of the Passover Lamb. (Exodus 12:43)
App: DO NOT allow even an actual Hebrew “Gentile” (who has become a stranger/alien to the commonwealth of Israel) who has fallen away from the commandments to partake of the Passover lamb
129. DO NOT eat of the holy offerings while ritually unclean. (Leviticus 22:2-6)
App: Those who are ritually unclean cannot eat what is holy, this includes the priests as well
130. DO NOT eat any food which becomes ritually unclean. (Leviticus 7:19)
App: You are not to eat any food or flesh that itself becomes ritually unclean through touching any unclean person, animal, or thing (clothing, fluids, etc.)
131. DO NOT eat of the peace sacrifices which remain after the third day, they must be burned. (Leviticus 19:6-8)
App: Specifically, peace sacrifices can be eaten on the first and second day but must be burned in fire on the 3rd day. Anyone who eats of it on the 3rd day shall be cut off from Israel
132. A vow or voluntary offering sacrifices remaining past the third day will not be accepted by God. (Leviticus 7:16-18)
App: The priest has 2 days to eat the sacrifices of a vow or voluntary offering but on the 3rd day the offering will not be accepted by God or the priests and the remainders of it must be burnt completely
133. No one outside of the priest's family may eat of the most holy offerings. (Leviticus 22:10-11)
App: No one except for the priests and their families could eat of the holy offerings made to God. If a priest buys a servant or if any man is born in the priest's house then they both were also permitted to eat of the holy offerings
134. No stranger or hired worker may eat of the holy offerings. (Leviticus 22:10)
App: No stranger or hired worker are considered family of the priest and cannot eat of the holy offerings. A hired worker is different from a purchased slave/servant who is considered part of the household
135. No uncircumcised person may eat of the holy offerings. (Leviticus 22:10)
App: Uncircumcised also known as a non-commandment follower or observer. Typically, a foreigner
136. The priests must not eat of the holy offerings while ritually unclean. (Leviticus 22:2-9)
App: Even the priest were not permitted to eat of the holy offerings when ritually unclean
137. If the daughter of a priest is married to a stranger or non-priest then she must not eat of holy offerings. (Leviticus 22:12-13)
App: The daughter of a priest who is married to a stranger who is not of Israel or a non-priest then she is no longer permitted to eat of the holy offering again until she is either widowed or divorced with no children
138. DO NOT eat the grain offering which the priest himself offers. (Leviticus 6:20-23)
App: The grain offering of the priests is to be totally burnt to a crisp, it's not to be eaten at all
139. DO NOT eat of the sin offering whose blood is sprinkled on the inner altar. (Leviticus 6:30)
App: It's a sin offering, you don't eat it at all. It is to be burned in the fire and blood is to be spilled for reconciliation, the sin offering was never meant for consumption
140. DO NOT eat any abominable thing. (Deuteronomy 14:3)
App: Anything or animal that is considered abominable biblically is not to be eaten under any circumstances (this includes pork)
141. DO NOT eat the second tithe of grain except at God's feast at the sanctuary of God. (Deuteronomy 12:17-18)
App: DO NOT eat of the grain tithe unless you are the family of the Levites priests or partaking during a feast holiday
142. DO NOT drink the second tithe of wine except at God's feast at the sanctuary of God. (Deuteronomy 12:17-18)
App: DO NOT drink of this wine tithe unless there is a feast holiday
143. DO NOT eat the second tithe of oil except at God's feast at the sanctuary of God. (Deuteronomy 12:17-18)
App: DO NOT eat of or use the oil tithe unless there is a feast holiday of the lord held in the house of the lord
144. DO NOT eat the feast sacrifices except at God's feast at the sanctuary of God. (Deuteronomy 12:17-18)
App: Only eat feast sacrifices during God's feast days held on sanctuary grounds
145. The priests may not eat the second tithes (of the fields) except at God's feast at the sanctuary of God. (Deuteronomy 12:17-18)
App: Even the priests are not permitted to eat the tithes and vow offerings except for during God's feast holidays and only within the sanctuary
146. The priests must not eat the meat of the burnt offering at all. (Leviticus 1:9)
App: The burnt offering portion of the animal is the animal's insides and legs, they are to be washed in water and burned completely by fire. This portion is not to be eaten at all, only burned on the altar
147. No meat from any of the sacrifices can be eaten before the blood of the animal has been poured on the altar. (Deuteronomy 12:27)
App: You must offer the burnt offering first (insides and legs of animal) pour its blood on altar then you may eat the flesh if you are a Levite priest or his family
148. The priests must not eat of the holy offerings except at a holy place (the sanctuary of God). (Leviticus 10:13-14)
App: The priests are only allowed to eat holy offerings in the temple of God. Meat wise they usually ate the shoulder and breast of the animal sacrificed and gave the insides and legs of that same animal as the burnt offering to God
149. DO NOT allow a stranger to eat of the most holy offering. (Exodus 29:33)
App: Strangers or otherwise non-commandment keepers are not to eat of the holy offerings
150. DO NOT eat of the second tithe while at home in a state of ritual impurity. (not during the Feast) (Deuteronomy 26:14)
App: DO NOT eat of any feast while in a state of ritual impurity
151. DO NOT eat of the second tithe in honor of the dead. (Deuteronomy 26:14)
App: DO NOT eat of tithed foods in honor of the dead or for the mourning of someone, even for a funeral
152. DO NOT eat of the second tithe in honor of any false god. (Deuteronomy 26:14)
App: DO NOT eat of any tithed foods to honor any false holiday not mentioned by God in the bible
153. DO NOT allow any unauthorized person to eat of the holy offerings. (Leviticus 22:14-16)
App: DO NOT allow a non-priest or his family to eat of the holy offerings. If a man does eat the holy offering by mistake then he must reimburse the holy offerings financial value plus 20%
154. DO NOT delay paying tithes and offerings to God at the sanctuary of God. (Exodus 22:29)
App: DO NOT procrastinate in paying your tithes to God. Any delay shall be counted as sin
155. DO NOT delay paying vows to God at the sanctuary of God. (Deuteronomy 23:21)
App: To delay paying back a vow that was made to God is a sin. Vows are to be paid to God as immediate as possible
156. DO NOT appear before God at his feasts at the sanctuary of God empty-handed. (without an offering) (Deuteronomy 16:16-17)
App: Every man shall bring to the feast according to what the blessing of the lord had given them. It was and is a sin to come empty handed to a feast regardless of your financial status (can be an offering of food, like a pot luck)
157. DO NOT break vows and oaths to God. (Numbers 30:2)
App: once you vow it to God he will surely require it of you and it would be an absolute sin not to keep your oath or vow (The story of a Hebrew Judge Jephthah sacrificing his own daughter as a burnt sacrifice to God due to a rash vow he foolishly made during battle should be read by all in Judges Ch. 11)
DO NOT DELAY PAYING GOD HIS TITHES OR VOWS
The Priests
158. A priest must not marry a woman who is a harlot. (zonah) (Leviticus 21:6-8)
App: Priest could not marry a whore or a divorced woman (typically the reason for divorce was adultery) under any circumstances
159. A priest must not marry a woman who refuses to repent of false god worship. (Leviticus 21:7)
App: A woman who refuses to repent for worshiping other gods is considered profane (unholy) and not fit for a holy priest of God in marriage
160. A priest must not marry a woman divorced from her lawful husband. (Leviticus 21:7)
App: A priest could not marry a divorced woman for two reasons. Reason one is that the previous divorce would have likely legally been over her having premarital sex32 and two, she was no longer a virgin. Both reasons a Levite priest could not marry her
161. The High Priest must not marry a widow. (Leviticus 21:14)
App: The High Priest was not allowed to marry a widow however other regular Levite priests could marry the widows of previous Levite priests or virgin Israelite women
162. The High Priest must not marry a woman defiled by harlotry or false god worship. (Leviticus 21:14)
App: Just like all the other priest, the High Priest couldn't marry whores or any other profane women either obviously (although Mary Magdalene wasn't an actual prostitute, if she was one then Yeshua {God's High Priest} couldn't have married her according to this commandment, even though they likely were not actually married. Although she was an actual disciple {there were more than twelve, the twelve disciples were just chosen leaders} and initial witness to the resurrection)
163. Priests must not allow their hair to grow long or very high (Afro). (Leviticus 10:6)
App: Priests were not to uncover their heads in service to God in the sanctuary apparently very long/very big hair on a man was considered profane
164. Priests must not tear, or serve with torn Holy Garments. (Leviticus 10:6)
App: Priestly garments must be in excellent condition with no rips or tears on them at all lest they literally die in the presence of God
165. Priests must not forsake their appointed office. (Leviticus 10:7)
App: Priests must take their office seriously and keep the laws of God as close to flawlessly as possible because their life depended on it, in the actual presence of God, where they could and did literally drop dead under God's power if under any sin33 (Commandment breakage in any way, purposeful or by mistake)
166. Priests must not become ritually unclean except for their nearest relatives. (Leviticus 21:1-4)
App: The priest may only become ritually unclean on behalf of caring for his wife, mother, father, son, daughter, brother, and unmarried virgin sister. A priest is not to defile himself or to make himself profane
167. The High Priest must not go near any dead body. (Leviticus 21:11)
App: The High Priest had to abide by stricter rules than the regular Levite priests and he is not