Whatever touches them shall become holy... Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy... Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy. - Leviticus 6:18b, 27a, 30 (ESV)
What makes us holy cannot merely be a function of our right actions, but an imputation by the Lord Himself. The situation in Leviticus 6 is confusing to the modern mind, but it points us to our atoning sacrifice - Christ.
We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp. So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify [that is, to make holy] the people through his own blood. - Hebrews 13:10-12 (ESV)
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