Leviticus 6:18

Any of Aaron's male descendants may eat it. This is a permanent allowance from the food offerings to the Lord for future generations. Whatever touches them shall become holy.”

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In The King James Version

All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.

In Context

17It must not be baked with yeast. I have provided it as their share of my food offerings. It is most holy, just like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

19The Lord told Moses,

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Cross References

Exodus 29:37For seven days you shall purify the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become completely holy, and everything that touches the altar will become holy.

Leviticus 4:3If it is the high priest who sins and brings guilt on everyone, he must present to the Lord a young bull without defects as a sin offering for his sin.

Leviticus 4:33He must put his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it as a sin offering at the place where the burnt offering is killed.

Leviticus 6:27Whatever touches it shall become holy and if any of the blood is splashed on clothing, you must wash it in a holy place.

Leviticus 21:21No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect is allowed to come and present the food offerings to the Lord. Because he has a defect, he must not come and offer the food of his God.

Numbers 18:10You shall eat it in a most holy place. Every male is allowed to eat it. You are to regard it as something holy.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 6:15-24

Law of the Meat-Offering. ( b. c. 1490.) 14 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord , before the altar. 15 And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the Lord . 16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy… Read the whole commentary →

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