Leviticus 22:13
But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and if she has no child, and if she returns to live in her father's house as in her youth, she may eat from her father's food. But no one who is not in the priestly family may eat from the priest's food.
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Exodus 12:43Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Here is the rule for the Passover: No foreigner may share in eating it.
Leviticus 10:14The breast that is waved and the thigh that is presented to Yahweh, you must eat in a clean place acceptable to God. You and your sons and daughters with you should eat those portions, for they are given as your share and your sons' share out of the sacrifices of the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 24:2When she has gone out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
Ezra 2:63So the governor told them they must not eat any of the holy sacrifices until a priest with Urim and Thummim approved.
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 →