Leviticus 22:10

No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

9Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

11But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:45The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.

Leviticus 21:22He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves, that are offered in the sanctuary,

1 Samuel 21:7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, within the tabernacle of the Lord: and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of Saul's herdsmen.

Ezekiel 44:8And you have not kept the ordinances of my sanctuary: but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

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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