◄ Leviticus 22:11 ►
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Good News Translation
But a priest's slaves, bought with his own money or born in his home, may eat the food the priest receives.

New Revised Standard Version
but if a priest acquires anyone by purchase, the person may eat of them; and those that are born in his house may eat of his food.

Contemporary English Version
However, any slave that you own, including those born into your household, may eat this food.

New American Bible
But a slave whom a priest acquires by purchase or who is born in his house may eat of his food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them.

Genesis 17:13 And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.

Numbers 18:11-13 But the firstfruits, which the children of Israel shall vow and offer, I have given to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters, by a perpetual law. He that is clean in thy house, shall eat them. . . .

Context
Restrictions Against the Unclean
…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.12If the daughter of a priest be married to any of the people, she shall not eat of those things that are sanctified nor of the firstfruits.…
Cross References
Genesis 12:5
And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,

Genesis 17:13
And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.

Exodus 12:44
But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.

Leviticus 22:12
If the daughter of a priest be married to any of the people, she shall not eat of those things that are sanctified nor of the firstfruits.

Leviticus 22:10
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