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New Century Version

Leviticus 22:12

If a priest's daughter marries a person who is not a priest, she must not eat any of the holy offerings.

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 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 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. 11 But if the priest buys a slave with his own money, that slave may eat the holy offerings; slaves who were born in his house may also eat his food. 12 If a priest's daughter marries a person who is not a priest, she must not eat any of the holy offerings. 13 But if the priest's daughter becomes widowed or divorced, with no children to support her, and if she goes back to her father's house where she lived as a child, she may eat some of her father's food. But only people from a priest's family may eat this food. 14 "‘If someone eats some of the holy offering by mistake, that person must pay back the priest for that holy food, adding another one-fifth of the price of that food. 15 "‘When the Israelites give their holy offerings to the Lord , the priest must not treat these holy things as though they were not holy. 16 The priests must not allow those who are not priests to eat the holy offerings. If they do, they cause the ones who eat the holy offerings to become guilty, and they will have to pay for it. I am the Lord , 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
Then Abraham answered, "I thought no one in this place respected God and that someone would kill me to get Sarah.
Genesis 22:2
Then God said, "Take your only son, Isaac, the son you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Kill him there and offer him as a whole burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
Genesis 22:6
Abraham took the wood for the sacrifice and gave it to his son to carry, but he himself took the knife and the fire. So he and his son went on together.
Genesis 22:8
Abraham answered, "God will give us the lamb for the sacrifice, my son." So Abraham and his son went on together
Genesis 22:9
and came to the place God had told him about. Abraham built an altar there. He laid the wood on it and then tied up his son Isaac and laid him on the wood on the altar.
Genesis 22:10
Then Abraham took his knife and was about to kill his son.
Genesis 22:12
The angel said, "Don't kill your son or hurt him in any way. Now I can see that you trust God and that you have not kept your son, your only son, from me."
Genesis 22:13
Then Abraham looked up and saw a male sheep caught in a bush by its horns. So Abraham went and took the sheep and killed it. He offered it as a whole burnt offering to God, and his son was saved.
Genesis 22:21
The first son is Uz, and the second is Buz. The third son is Kemuel (the father of Aram).
Genesis 22:22
Then there are Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."

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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