Leviticus 22:7

At sunset he will become clean, and then he is allowed to eat from the holy offerings because they provide his food.

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In The King James Version

And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.

In Context

6anyone who touches anything like this will remain unclean until evening. He is not allowed to eat from the holy offerings unless he has washed himself with water.

8He must not eat anything that has died, or has been killed by wild animals, because that would make him unclean. I am the Lord.

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Cross References

Numbers 18:9Part of the most holy offerings taken from the burnt offerings are yours. Part of all the offerings they give me as most holy offerings, whether it's grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.

Numbers 18:13The firstfruits of all the crops they produce in their land that they bring to the Lord are yours. Everyone in your family who is ceremonially clean is allowed to eat them.

1 Corinthians 9:4Don't we have the right to be provided with food and drink?

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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