i
This is the Law of the elevation-offering: The
priests are to take the ashes away, after the elevation-offering has
been burnt up from the fire that the priests set, continually, on the
altar in the House of God.
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The Law does not mention, here, that it is the priests who conduct the service of the elevation-offering.
This Law only mentions how the priests make the altar fit: cleaning it and making its fire permanent.
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This Law introduces those Laws of sacrifice addressed specifically to the priests.
ii
The priest is a holy man.
Here, then, is what this Law says about the holy man:
The holy man is simply the one who brings constancy and who offers cleanliness to the meeting-spot between the people and God.
The holy man is a facilitator for the closeness between God and the people.
The holy man is not crucial in his own right.
The closeness between the people and God is what is crucial.
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