Leviticus 22 in the early church

21 passages quote, allude to, or echo Leviticus 22, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 4 · 10 · 12 · 13 · 18 · 21 · 22 · 27 · 28

Leviticus 22:4

If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen,

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Lev 22:4Letter 64.2 · Jeromeallusion, high confidenceca. 370–419

Leviticus 22:10

No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.

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Lev 22:10–11Letter 64.2 · Jeromeallusion, high confidenceca. 370–419
Lev 22:10–25Leviticus, lines 200–224 · Cyprianus Gallusallusion, high confidenceearly 5th cent.

Leviticus 22:12

If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.

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Lev 22:12Letter 123.6 · Jeromeallusion, high confidenceca. 370–419

Leviticus 22:13

But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.

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Lev 22:13On Monogamy 7 · Tertullianallusion, high confidenceca. 210–217
Lev 22:13Letter 64.2 · Jeromeallusion, high confidenceca. 370–419
Lev 22:13Letter 123.6 · Jeromeallusion, high confidenceca. 370–419
Lev 22:13Against Jovinianus 1.20 · Jeromeallusion, high confidence393

Leviticus 22:18

“Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,

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Lev 22:18Question 103, section 1 · Ambrosiasterallusion, medium confidenceca. 370–384

Leviticus 22:21

When a man presents a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be acceptable.

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Lev 22:21Miscellanies 4.18.117 · Clement of Alexandriaallusion, medium confidenceca. 198–203
Lev 22:21Commentary on Romans 10.11 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
Lev 22:21Oration 2.40 · Gregory of Nazianzusallusion, high confidenceca. 362–383
Lev 22:21On Cain and Abel 2.8 · Ambroseallusion, low confidenceca. 375-378
Lev 22:21On the Grace of Christ and On Original Sin 2.37 · Augustine of Hippoallusion, low confidence418

Leviticus 22:22

You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.

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Lev 22:22Commentary on Romans 9.1 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
Lev 22:22Letter 107.6 · Jeromeallusion, medium confidenceca. 370–419
Lev 22:22Sermon 109 · Peter Chrysologusquotation, medium confidenceca. 425-450

Leviticus 22:27

“When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a food offering presented to the LORD.

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Lev 22:27Miscellanies 2.18.92 · Clement of Alexandriaallusion, high confidenceca. 198–203
Lev 22:27Tractates on the Psalms 118.0.5 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, medium confidenceca. 360–367
Lev 22:27Exposition of Psalm 118 0.2.2 · Ambroseallusion, low confidenceca. 386-397

Leviticus 22:28

But you must not slaughter an ox or a sheep on the same day as its young.

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Lev 22:28Miscellanies 2.18.93 · Clement of Alexandriaallusion, high confidenceca. 198–203