Leviticus 7:21

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When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

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The Wilderness of Sinai was the desert region around Mount Sinai where Israel camped after the exodus and received God’s covenant law. These sacrificial regulations mattered there because they taught the redeemed community that fellowship offerings required holiness: contact with uncleanness barred a person from eating what had been consecrated to the Lord.

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Leviticus 7:21 mentions Wilderness of Sinai.

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