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Leviticus 22:10

Only a priest's family can eat the holy food. A visitor staying with the priest or a hired worker must not eat any of the holy food.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Offerings and Sacrifices;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Alien;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Priest;   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;   Slave, Slavery;   Stranger;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hireling, Hired Servant;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Stranger;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Leviticus;   Relationships, Family;   Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aliens;   Commandments, the 613;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the Kohen's, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
King James Version
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Lexham English Bible
"‘No stranger shall eat the votive offering; nor shall a temporary resident with a priest or a hired worker eat the votive offering.
New Century Version
Only people in a priest's family may eat the holy offering. A visitor staying with the priest or a hired worker must not eat it.
New English Translation
"‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest's lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,
Amplified Bible
'No layman [that is, someone outside of Aaron's family] is to eat the holy gift [which has been offered to God]; a foreigner residing with the priest or a hired man shall not eat the holy thing.
New American Standard Bible
'No layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a foreign resident with the priest or a hired worker shall not eat the holy gift.
Geneva Bible (1587)
There shall no stranger also eate of the holie thing, neither the ghest of the Priest, neither shall an hired seruant eat of the holie thing:
Legacy Standard Bible
‘No layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a foreign resident with the priest or a hired man shall not eat of the holy gift.
Contemporary English Version
Only you priests and your families may eat the food offerings; these are too sacred for any of your servants.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘No one who is not a cohen may eat anything holy, nor may a tenant or employee of a cohen eat anything holy.
Darby Translation
And no stranger shall eat the holy thing; the sojourner with the priest, and the hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
English Standard Version
"A lay person shall not eat of a holy thing; no foreign guest of the priest or hired worker shall eat of a holy thing,
George Lamsa Translation
There shall no alien eat of the holy things; a sojourner of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
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.
Christian Standard Bible®
“No one outside a priest’s family is to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired worker is not to eat the holy offering.
Literal Translation
And no stranger shall eat of the holy things, a tenant of a priest, or a hired servant; these shall not eat of the holy thing.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A straunger shal not eate of the holy thinges, ner an housholde gest of the prestes, ner an hyred seruaut.
American Standard Version
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest's, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Bible in Basic English
No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
There shall no straunger eate of the holy thing, neither a ghest of ye priestes, neither shall an hyred seruaunt eate of the holy thyng.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
There shall no common man eat of the holy thing; a tenant of a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
King James Version (1611)
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing; a soiourner of the Priests, or an hired seruant shall not eate of the holy thing.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And no stranger shall eat the holy things: one that sojourns with a priest, or a hireling, shall not eat the holy things.
English Revised Version
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest's, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Berean Standard Bible
No one outside a priest's family is to eat the sacred offering, nor may a foreigner staying with a priest, or a hired hand, eat of it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ech alien schal not ete of thingis halewid; the hyne which is a straunger, and the hirid man of the preest, schulen not ete of tho. Sotheli these seruauntis,
Young's Literal Translation
`And no stranger doth eat of the holy thing; a settler of a priest and an hireling doth not eat of the holy thing;
Update Bible Version
And no stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest's, or a hired worker, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Webster's Bible Translation
There shall no stranger eat [of] the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat [of] the holy thing.
World English Bible
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest's, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
New King James Version
"No outsider shall eat the holy offering; one who dwells with the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat the holy thing.
New Living Translation
"No one outside a priest's family may eat the sacred offerings. Even guests and hired workers in a priest's home are not allowed to eat them.
New Life Bible
‘But no one who is not a religious leader may eat the holy gift. One who is visiting the religious leader or working for him must not eat of the holy gift.
New Revised Standard
No lay person shall eat of the sacred donations. No bound or hired servant of the priest shall eat of the sacred donations;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, no stranger, shall eat what is hallowed, - neither, one who dwelleth with a priest nor a hireling shall eat what is hallowed.
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.
Revised Standard Version
"An outsider shall not eat of a holy thing. A sojourner of the priest's or a hired servant shall not eat of a holy thing;
THE MESSAGE
"No layperson may eat anything set apart as holy. Nor may a priest's guest or his hired hand eat anything holy. But if a priest buys a slave, the slave may eat of it; also the slaves born in his house may eat his food. If a priest's daughter marries a layperson, she may no longer eat from the holy contributions. But if the priest's daughter is widowed or divorced and without children and returns to her father's household as before, she may eat of her father's food. But no layperson may eat of it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'No layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a sojourner with the priest or a hired man shall not eat of the holy gift.

Contextual Overview

10 Only a priest's family can eat the holy food. A visitor staying with the priest or a hired worker must not eat any of the holy food. 11 But if the priest buys a person as a slave with his own money, that person may eat some of the holy things. Slaves who were born in the priest's house may also eat some of the priest's food. 12 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. 13 A priest's daughter might become a widow, or she might be divorced. If she does not have any children to support her, and she goes back to her father's house where she lived as a child, she can eat some of her father's food. But only people from a priest's family can eat this food. 14 "Whoever eats some of the holy food by mistake must give the priest the price of that food and add another one-fifth of the price as a fine. 15 "The Israelites will bring offerings to the Lord . These offerings become holy, so the priests must not let them be used in a wrong way. 16 They must not let the people eat these offerings. If they do, they are guilty of doing wrong, and they must pay for it. I am the Lord , the one who makes these offerings holy."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The word zar, a stranger, does not mean one of another nation, a foreigner, which is expressed by hechar, but one who is not of the seed of Aaron, or does not belong to his family. 1 Samuel 21:6, Matthew 12:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:43 - There shall Exodus 12:45 - General Exodus 29:33 - a stranger Leviticus 21:22 - and of the holy Numbers 1:51 - the stranger Numbers 16:40 - that no Ezra 2:63 - should not Proverbs 20:25 - a snare

Cross-References

Genesis 22:6
Abraham took the wood for the sacrifice and put it on his son's shoulder. Abraham took the special knife and fire. Then both he and his son went together to the place for worship.
Genesis 22:12
The angel said, "Don't kill your son or hurt him in any way. Now I can see that you do respect and obey God. I see that you are ready to kill your son, your only son, for me."
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you and give you as many descendants as the stars in the sky. There will be as many people as sand on the seashore. And your people will live in cities that they will take from their enemies.
Genesis 22:19
Then Abraham went back to his servants. They all traveled back to Beersheba, and Abraham stayed there.
Genesis 22:21
The first son is Uz. The second son is Buz. The third son is Kemuel, the father of Aram.
Genesis 22:23
Bethuel was the father of Rebekah. Milcah was the mother of these eight sons, and Nahor was the father. Nahor was Abraham's brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There shall no stranger eat [of] the holy thing,.... Any one of the holy things, as the heave shoulder, wave breast, c. by a "stranger" is not meant one of another nation though indeed all such were called strangers, and might not eat of these things, Ephesians 2:12; but one that was not of the family of a priest, though he might be an Israelite, and even a Levite; anyone that was not of the seed of Aaron, as Aben Ezra; any common man or laic, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, excepting those after mentioned:

a sojourner of the priests, or an hired servant, shall not eat [of] the holy thing: by the former is not intended an Heathen, a proselyte of the gate, one that has renounced idolatry, and so permitted to live among the Israelites, of it uncircumcised, who is often understood by one that sojourneth in the gate, but here an Israelitish sojourner; and so the Targum of Jonathan expressly has it,

"a son of an Israelite, who is a sojourner of the priests;''

not that is a guest for a short time, or a boarder with him; for if he may not eat of the holy things, what must he live on while with him? but one that dwells in some part of his house: and by the latter is meant anyone that is hired by the day, or week, or year, and when the time is expired is at his liberty; though the Jewish writers commonly, and particularly Jarchi, interpret the sojourner of the servant that has his ear bored, and is bought with money, until the year of jubilee, and serves for ever; and the hireling of one that is purchased for years, and goes out in the sixth year; but the above objection will lie against these.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Stranger - One of another family. See Exodus 29:33 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 22:10. There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing — For the meaning of the word stranger, see the note on "Exodus 12:43". The Jews suppose that stranger here means one who has had his ear pierced, (see the note on "Exodus 21:6",) and that sojourner means a servant who is to go free on the Sabbatical year. Neither of these was permitted to eat of the holy things, because they were not properly members of the priest's family, and might go out and defile themselves even with the abominations of the heathen; but the servant or slave that was bought with money, Leviticus 22:10, might eat of these things, because he was the property of the master for ever.

We see that it was lawful, under the Mosaic economy, to have slaves under certain restrictions; but these were taken from among the heathen, and instructed in the true religion: hence we find, as in the above case, that they were reckoned as a part of the priest's own family, and treated as such. They certainly had privileges which did not extend either to sojourners or to hired servants; therefore their situation was incomparably better than the situation of the slaves under different European governments, of whose souls their pitiless possessors in general take no care, while they themselves venture to profess the Christian religion, and quote the Mosaic law in vindication of their system of slavery. How preposterous is such conduct! and how intolerable!


 
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