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Leviticus 22:12

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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.
Contemporary English Version
If your daughter marries someone who isn't a priest, she can no longer have any of this food.
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"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. 14 "If anyone eats from a holy offering accidentally, he must give back the holy offering to the priest and add twenty percent to it. 15"The priests must not treat with irreverence the holy offerings of the Israelites that they contribute to God lest they desecrate themselves and make themselves guilty when they eat the holy offerings. I am God who makes them 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 said, "I just assumed that there was no fear of God in this place and that they'd kill me to get my wife. Besides, the truth is that she is my half sister; she's my father's daughter but not my mother's. When God sent me out as a wanderer from my father's home, I told her, ‘Do me a favor; wherever we go, tell people that I'm your brother.'"
Genesis 22:2
He said, "Take your dear son Isaac whom you love and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I'll point out to you."
Genesis 22:6
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and gave it to Isaac his son to carry. He carried the flint and the knife. The two of them went off together.
Genesis 22:8
Abraham said, "Son, God will see to it that there's a sheep for the burnt offering." And they kept on walking together.
Genesis 22:9
They arrived at the place to which God had directed him. Abraham built an altar. He laid out the wood. Then he tied up Isaac and laid him on the wood. Abraham reached out and took the knife to kill his son.
Genesis 22:12
"Don't lay a hand on that boy! Don't touch him! Now I know how fearlessly you fear God; you didn't hesitate to place your son, your dear son, on the altar for me."
Genesis 22:13
Abraham looked up. He saw a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. Abraham took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Genesis 22:24
His concubine, Reumah, gave him four more children: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 42:18
On the third day, Joseph spoke to them. "Do this and you'll live. I'm a God-fearing man. If you're as honest as you say you are, one of your brothers will stay here in jail while the rest of you take the food back to your hungry families. But you have to bring your youngest brother back to me, confirming the truth of your speech—and not one of you will die." They agreed.
Exodus 20:20
Moses spoke to the people: "Don't be afraid. God has come to test you and instill a deep and reverent awe within you so that you won't sin."

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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