Leviticus 21:22

JPS Old Testament

He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the 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:

Bible in Basic English
He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let him eate the bread of his God, euen 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 spoke unto Moses, saying: ¹⁷ Speak unto Aaron, saying: Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. ¹⁸ For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath any thing maimed, or anything too long, ¹⁹ or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, ²⁰ or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed; ²¹ no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire; he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. ²² He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. ²³ Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not My holy places; for I am the LORD who sanctify them. ²⁴ So Moses spoke unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto 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
And Abraham prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bore children.

Genesis 21:2
And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

Genesis 21:3
And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

Genesis 26:26
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host.

Genesis 26:28
And they said: 'We saw plainly that the LORD was with thee; and we said: Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

Genesis 28:15
And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.'

Genesis 30:27
And Laban said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thine eyes--I have observed the signs, and the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.'

Joshua 3:7
And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.

2 Chronicles 1:1
And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.

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.