◄ Leviticus 22:10 ►
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Good News Translation
"Only a member of a priestly family may eat any of the sacred offerings; no one else may eat them--not even someone staying with a priest or hired by him.

New Revised Standard Version
No lay person shall eat of the sacred donations. No bound or hired servant of the priest shall eat of the sacred donations;

Contemporary English Version
Only you priests and your families may eat the food offerings; these are too sacred for any of your servants.

New American Bible
Neither an unauthorized person nor a priest’s tenant or laborer may eat of any sacred offering.

Douay-Rheims Bible
No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.

1 Samuel 21:6 The priest therefore gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken away from before the face of the Lord, that hot loaves might be set up.

Matthew 12:4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only?

Context
Restrictions Against the Unclean
…9Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them. 10No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.11But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them.…
Cross References
Exodus 12:45
The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.

Exodus 29:33
That it may be an atoning sacrifice, and the hands of the offerers may be sanctified. A stranger shall not eat of them, because they are holy.

Leviticus 22:13
But if she be a widow, or divorced, and having no children return to her father's house, she shall eat of her father's meats, as she was wont to do when she was a maid. No stranger hath leave to eat of them.

Numbers 3:10
To Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are delivered by the children of Israel. But thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the service of priesthood. The stranger that approacheth to minister, shall be put to death.

Leviticus 22:9
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