Leviticus 22:12

If the priest's daughter gets married to a man who isn't a priest, she is not allowed to eat the holy offerings.

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In The King James Version

If the priest’s daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

In Context

11However, if a priest uses his own money to buy a slave, or if a slave is born in the priest's household, then that slave is allowed to eat his food.

13But if a priest's daughter without children is widowed or divorced and goes back to her father's house, she is allowed to eat her father's food as she did when she was growing up. But no one outside the priest's family can eat it.

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Cross References

Isaiah 40:13Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or taught him what to do as his counselor?

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 22:11-17

10 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. 11 But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat. 12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. 13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall… Read the whole commentary →

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