Leviticus 22:7

When the sun has set, he will then be clean. After sunset he may eat from the holy things, because they are 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

6then the priest who touches anything unclean will be unclean until evening. He must not eat any of the holy things, unless he has bathed his body in water.

8He must not eat anything found dead or killed by wild animals, by which he would defile himself. I am Yahweh.

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Cross References

Numbers 18:9This will belong to you from the most holy things that is kept from the fire. From every offering of theirs—every grain offering, every sin offering, and every guilt offering—they are set apart to you and to your sons.

Numbers 18:13The first ripe produce of all that is in their land, which they bring to me, will be yours. Everyone who is clean in your family may eat these things.

1 Corinthians 9:4Do we not have the right to eat 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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