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Contemporary English Version

Leviticus 22:12

If your daughter marries someone who isn't a priest, she can no longer have any of this food.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Priest;   Strangers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Offerings and Sacrifices;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Stranger;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Leviticus;   Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commandments, the 613;   Heave-Offering;   Memra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If a Kohen's daughter be married to a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.
King James Version
If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
Lexham English Bible
And a priest's daughter, when she marries a layman, she herself may not eat the votive offering.
New Century Version
If a priest's daughter marries a person who is not a priest, she must not eat any of the holy offerings.
New English Translation
If a priest's daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,
Amplified Bible
'If a priest's daughter is married to a layman [one not part of the priestly tribe], she shall not eat the offering of the holy things.
New American Standard Bible
'If a priest's daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the holy gifts.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If the Priests daughter also be maried vnto a stranger, she may not eate of the holy offrings.
Legacy Standard Bible
If a priest's daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy gifts.
Complete Jewish Bible
If the daughter of a cohen is married to a man who is not a cohen, she is not to have a share of the food set aside from the holy things.
Darby Translation
And a priest's daughter who is [married] to a stranger may not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.
Easy-to-Read Version
A priest's daughter might marry a man who is not a priest. If she does that, she cannot eat any of the holy offerings.
English Standard Version
If a priest's daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy things.
George Lamsa Translation
If a priests daughter is married to a stranger, she also may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
Good News Translation
A priest's daughter who marries someone who is not a priest may not eat any of the sacred offerings.
Christian Standard Bible®
If the priest’s daughter is married to a man outside a priest’s family, she is not to eat from the holy contributions.
Literal Translation
And a priest's daughter, when she belongs to an alien man, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuertheles yf the prestes doughter be a straungers wife, she shal not eate of the Heueofferinges of holynes.
American Standard Version
And if a priest's daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.
Bible in Basic English
And if the daughter of a priest is married to an outside person she may not take of the holy things which are lifted up as offerings.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If the priestes daughter also be maried vnto a staunger, she may not eate of the halowed heaue offeringes:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if a priest's daughter be married unto a common man, she shall not eat of that which is set apart from the holy things.
King James Version (1611)
If the Priests daughter also bee married vnto a stranger, she may not eate of an offering of the holy things.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if the daughter of a priest should marry a stranger, she shall not eat of the offerings of the sanctuary.
English Revised Version
And if a priest's daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
Berean Standard Bible
If the priest's daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If the `douyter of the preest is weddid to ony of the puple, sche schal not ete of these thingis that ben halewid, and of the firste fruytis;
Young's Literal Translation
`And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's, -- she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat;
Update Bible Version
And if a priest's daughter is married to a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.
Webster's Bible Translation
If the priest's daughter also shall be [married] to a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
World English Bible
If a priest's daughter be married to a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.
New King James Version
If the priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she may not eat of the holy offerings.
New Living Translation
If a priest's daughter marries someone outside the priestly family, she may no longer eat the sacred offerings.
New Life Bible
If a religious leader's daughter is married to a man who is not a religious leader, she must not eat of the holy gifts.
New Revised Standard
If a priest's daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the sacred donations;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when, a priest's daughter, belongeth to a husband, who is a stranger, she, of the heave-offering of the hallowed things, may not eat.
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
Revised Standard Version
If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider she shall not eat of the offering of the holy things.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'If a priest's daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the gifts.

Contextual Overview

10 Only you priests and your families may eat the food offerings; these are too sacred for any of your servants. 11 However, any slave that you own, including those born into your household, may eat this food. 12 If your daughter marries someone who isn't a priest, she can no longer have any of this food. 13 But if she returns to your home, either widowed or divorced, and has no children, she may join in the meal. Only members of a priestly family can eat this food, 14 and anyone else who accidentally does so, must pay for the food plus a fine of twenty percent. 15 I warn you not to treat lightly the offerings that are brought by the people of Israel. 16 Don't let them become guilty of eating this sacred food. Remember—I am the Lord , the one who makes these offerings holy.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a stranger: Heb. a man

a stranger: Leviticus 21:3, Isaiah 40:13, *marg.

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:24 - cleave

Cross-References

Genesis 20:11
Abraham answered: I did it because I didn't think any of you respected God, and I was sure that someone would kill me to get my wife.
Genesis 22:2
The Lord said, "Go get Isaac, your only son, the one you dearly love! Take him to the land of Moriah, and I will show you a mountain where you must sacrifice him to me on the fires of an altar."
Genesis 22:6
Abraham put the wood on Isaac's shoulder, but he carried the hot coals and the knife. As the two of them walked along,
Genesis 22:9
when they reached the place that God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and placed the wood on it. Next, he tied up his son and put him on the wood.
Genesis 22:10
He then took the knife and got ready to kill his son.
Genesis 22:12
"Don't hurt the boy or harm him in any way!" the angel said. "Now I know that you truly obey God, because you were willing to offer him your only son."
Genesis 22:13
Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the bushes. So he took the ram and sacrificed it in place of his son.
Genesis 22:24
Nahor also had another wife. Her name was Reumah, and she had four sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 26:5
because Abraham did everything I told him to do.
Genesis 42:18
before saying to them: Since I respect God, I'll give you a chance to save your lives.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If the priest's daughter also be [married] to a stranger,.... Not to an Heathen, but to any Israelite, that is, a common man, or a layman, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, one that is not a priest; but is married either to a Levite, or an Israelite, as Jarchi:

she may not eat of an offering of the holy things; the heave shoulder or wave breast, &c. being removed into another family by marriage, she is not reckoned of her father's family, and so had no more a right to eat of the holy things.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A stranger - One of another family.


 
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