Leviticus 21:22
Good News Translation
Such a man may eat the food offered to me, both the holy food offering and the very holy food offering,

New Revised Standard Version
He may eat the food of his God, of the most holy as well as of the holy.

Contemporary English Version
They may eat the food offerings presented to me,

New American Bible
He may, however, eat the food of his God: of the most sacred as well as sacred offerings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the sanctuary.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the sanctuary.

both

Leviticus 2:3,10 And the remnant of the sacrifice shall be Aaron's, and his sons', holy of holies of the offerings of the Lord. . . .

Leviticus 6:16,17,29 And the part of the flour that is left, Aaron and his sons shall eat, without leaven: and he shall eat it in the holy place of the court of the tabernacle. . . .

Leviticus 7:1 This also is the law of the sacrifice for a trespass: it is most holy.

Leviticus 24:8,9 Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord: being received of the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. . . .

Numbers 18:9,10 These therefore shalt thou take of the things that are sanctified, and are offered to the Lord. Every offering, and sacrifice, and whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and for trespass, and becometh holy of holies, shall be for thee and thy sons. . . .

and of the holy

Leviticus 22:10-13 No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them. . . .

Numbers 18:10,19 Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee. . . .

Context
Restrictions Against Those with Blemishes
21Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish: he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God. 22He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the sanctuary.23Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:13
Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with the altar?

Leviticus 21:23
Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

Leviticus 22:25
you shall not offer bread to your God, from the hand of a stranger, nor any other thing that he would give: because they are all corrupted, and defiled. You shall not receive them.

Leviticus 21:21
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