Leviticus 22:10

No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.

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In The King James Version

There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

In Context

9So then, let them keep what I have put into their care, for fear that sin may come on them because of it, so causing their death because they have made it common: I am the Lord, who make them holy.

11But any person for whom the priest has given money, to make him his, may take of it with him; and those who come to birth in his house may take of his bread.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:45A man from a strange country living among you, and a servant working for payment, may not take part in it.

Leviticus 21:22He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;

1 Samuel 21:7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, kept back before the Lord; his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the strongest of Saul's runners.

Ezekiel 44:8And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you have put them as keepers to take care of my work in my holy place.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 22:2-10

Laws Concerning the Priests. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the Lord . 3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord , having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off… Read the whole commentary →

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