Leviticus 22:10

No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.

Majority Standard Bible

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

9The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

11But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:45A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.

Leviticus 21:22He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,

1 Samuel 21:7Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.

Ezekiel 44:8And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.’

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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