Leviticus 22:13
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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.

Genesis 38:11 Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his daughter-in-law: Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was afraid lest he also might die, as his brethren did. She went her way, and dwelt in her father's house.

as in her

Leviticus 10:14 The breast also that is offered, and the shoulder that is separated, you shall eat in a most clean place, thou and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee. For they are set aside for thee and thy children, of the victims of peace offerings of the children of Israel.

Numbers 18:11-19 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
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. 13But 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.14He that eateth of the sanctified things through ignorance, shall add the fifth part with that which he ate, and shall give it to the priest into the sanctuary.…
Cross References
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 22:10
No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.

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.

Lexicon
But if
כִּ֨י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

a priest’s
כֹּהֵן֩ (kō·hên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3548: Priest

daughter
וּבַת־ (ū·ḇaṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

with no
אֵ֣ין (’ên)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

children
וְזֶרַע֮ (wə·ze·ra‘)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

becomes
תִהְיֶ֜ה (ṯih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

widowed
אַלְמָנָ֣ה (’al·mā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 490: A widow, a desolate place

or divorced
וּגְרוּשָׁ֗ה (ū·ḡə·rū·šāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1644: To drive out from a, possession, to expatriate, divorce

and returns
וְשָׁבָ֞ה (wə·šā·ḇāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

her father’s
אָבִ֙יהָ֙ (’ā·ḇî·hā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

house,
בֵּ֤ית (bêṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1004: A house

she may share
תֹּאכֵ֑ל (tō·ḵêl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

her father’s
אָבִ֖יהָ (’ā·ḇî·hā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

food
מִלֶּ֥חֶם (mil·le·ḥem)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3899: Food, bread, grain

as in her youth.
כִּנְעוּרֶ֔יהָ (kin·‘ū·re·hā)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5271: Youth, the state, the persons

But no
וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

outsider
זָ֖ר (zār)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery

may share
יֹ֥אכַל (yō·ḵal)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

it.
בּֽוֹ׃ (bōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 0: 0


Additional Translations
But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall be no stranger eat thereof.

But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and be returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

And if the daughter of priest should be a widow, or put away, and have no seed, she shall return to her father's house, as in her youth: she shall eat of her father's bread, but no stranger shall eat of it.

But a priest's daughter that becometh a widow, or is divorced, and hath no seed, and returneth unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food; but no stranger shall eat thereof.

But if a 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 eat of her father's bread: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

But if the priest's daughter shall be a widow, or divorced, and shall have no child, and have returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat; but there shall no stranger eat of it.

But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.

and a priest's daughter, when she is a widow, or cast out, and hath no seed, and hath turned back unto the house of her father, as in her youth, of her father's bread she doth eat; but no stranger doth eat of it.
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