Leviticus 21:22

Bible in Basic English

He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:

King James Version
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

Lexham English Bible
He may eat his God's food, from the most holy things and from the holy things.

New Century Version
He may eat the most holy food and also the holy food.

New English Translation
He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,

Amplified Bible
'He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,

New American Standard Bible
'He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy,

Geneva Bible (1587)
The bread of his God, euen of the most holie, and of the holy shall he eate:

Legacy Standard Bible
He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy,

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

Complete Jewish Bible
He may eat the bread of his God, both the especially holy and the holy;

Darby Translation
The bread of his God, of the most holy and of the holy, shall he eat;

Easy-to-Read Version
He is from the family of priests, so he can eat the holy bread. He can also eat the very holy bread.

English Standard Version
He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,

George Lamsa Translation
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy.

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

Christian Standard Bible®
He may eat the food of his God from what is especially holy as well as from what is holy.

Literal Translation
He shall eat of the bread of his God, of the most holy things, and of the holy things.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Notwithstondinge he shal eate of the bred of his God, both of the holy, & of ye most holy:

American Standard Version
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let him eate the bread of his God, euen of the most holy, and of the holy:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

King James Version (1611)
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most Holy, and of the holy:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The gifts of God are most holy, and he shall eat of the holy things.

English Revised Version
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

Berean Standard Bible
He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
netheles he schal ete the looues that ben offrid in the seyntuarie,

Young's Literal Translation
`Bread of his God -- of the most holy things, and of the holy things -- he doth eat;

Update Bible Version
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:

Webster's Bible Translation
He shall eat the bread of his God, [both] of the most holy, and of the holy.

World English Bible
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:

New King James Version
He may eat the bread of his God, both the most holy and the holy;

New Living Translation
However, he may eat from the food offered to God, including the holy offerings and the most holy offerings.

New Life Bible
He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Of the food of his God, both of the most holy, - and the holy, may he eat:

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

Revised Standard Version
He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy,

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁷ Say to Aaron, If a man of your family, in any generation, is damaged in body, let him not come near to make the offering of the bread of his God. ¹⁸ For any man whose body is damaged may not come near: one who is blind, or has not the use of his legs, or one who has a broken nose or any unnatural growth, ¹⁹ Or a man with broken feet or hands, ²⁰ Or one whose back is bent, or one who is unnaturally small, or one who has a damaged eye, or whose skin is diseased, or whose sex parts are damaged; ²¹ No man of the offspring of Aaron whose body is damaged in any way may come near to give the fire offerings of the Lord: he is damaged, he may not come near to make the offerings. ²² He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy; ²³ But he may not go inside the veil or come near the altar, because he is damaged; and he may not make my holy places common; for I the Lord have made them holy. ²⁴ These are the words which Moses said to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

both: Leviticus 2:3, Leviticus 2:10, Leviticus 6:16, Leviticus 6:17, Leviticus 6:29, Leviticus 7:1, Leviticus 24:8, Leviticus 24:9, Numbers 18:9, Numbers 18:10

and of the holy: Leviticus 22:10-13, Numbers 18:10, Numbers 18:19

Reciprocal: Leviticus 3:11 - the food Leviticus 6:18 - the males Leviticus 6:25 - it is Leviticus 10:12 - Take Leviticus 14:13 - it is most holy Leviticus 22:4 - holy things Leviticus 22:7 - General Leviticus 22:25 - the bread 2 Chronicles 31:16 - his daily Ezekiel 42:13 - the most holy

Cross-References

Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.

Genesis 20:17
Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

Genesis 21:2
And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.

Genesis 21:3
And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.

Genesis 26:26
And Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the captain of his army.

Genesis 26:28
And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and let us make an agreement with you;

Genesis 28:15
And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.

Genesis 30:27
And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.

Joshua 3:7
And the Lord said to Joshua, From now on I will give you glory in the eyes of all Israel, so that they may see that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

2 Chronicles 1:1
And Solomon, the son of David, made himself strong in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and made him very great.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He shall eat the bread of his God,.... That part of the sacrifices which was appropriated by the Lord to the priests, for the maintenance of them and their families; for though their natural infirmities disqualified them for service, yet they did not become hereby impure, either in a moral nor ceremonial sense, and might eat of the sacrifices, which impure persons might not; and so the tradition is, blemished persons, whether their blemishes are fixed or transient, may divide and eat, but not offer g; these being priests, and having no inheritance, nor any way of getting their livelihood, provision is made for them that they might not perish through their defects in nature, which were not voluntary and brought upon them by themselves, but by the providence of God; and such were allowed to eat

[both] of the most holy and of the holy; there were things the priests eat of, which were most holy, as what remained of the meat offerings, and of the sin offerings, and of the trespass offerings, which only the males of the priest's family might eat of, and that only in the holy place; and there were others less holy, the lighter holy things, as the Jews call them, as the wave breast, and heave shoulder, and the tithes and firstfruits, which were eaten of by all in their families, their daughters as well as their sons, and in their own houses; now of each of these might the blemished priests eat; see Numbers 18:9, &c.

g Misn. Zebachim, c. 12. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He was not treated as an outcast, but enjoyed his privileges as a son of Aaron, except in regard to active duties.

Leviticus 21:20

A dwarf - One who is small and wasted, either short, as in the text, or slender, as in the margin. It is hardly likely that dwarfishness would be overlooked in this enumeration. So most critical authorities.

Scurry or scabbed - These words most probably include all affected with any skin disease.

Leviticus 21:22

See Leviticus 2:3 note; Leviticus 6:25 note.

Leviticus 21:23

Sanctuaries - The places especially holy, including the most holy place, the holy place, and the altar.

This law is of course to be regarded as one development of the great principle that all which is devoted to the service of God should be as perfect as possible of its kind.