Leviticus 22:11

New Living Translation

However, if the priest buys a slave for himself, the slave may eat from the sacred offerings. And if his slaves have children, they also may share his food.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
But if a Kohen buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

King James Version
But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.

Lexham English Bible
But a priest, if with his money he buys a person as his possession, that one may eat it, and the descendants of his house themselves may eat his food.

New Century Version
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.

New English Translation
but if a priest buys a person with his own money, that person may eat the holy offerings, and those born in the priest's own house may eat his food.

Amplified Bible
'But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, the slave may eat the holy thing, and those who are born in the priest's house; they may eat his food.

New American Standard Bible
'But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, that person may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his food.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But if the Priest bye any with money, he shall eate of it, also he that is borne in his house: they shall eate of his meate.

Legacy Standard Bible
But if a priest buys a person as his property with his money, that one may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his food.

Contemporary English Version
However, any slave that you own, including those born into your household, may eat this food.

Complete Jewish Bible
But if a cohen acquires a slave, either through purchase or through his being born in his household, he may share his food.

Darby Translation
But if a priest buy any one for money, he may eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they may eat of his food.

Easy-to-Read Version
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.

English Standard Version
but if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food.

George Lamsa Translation
But if a priest buys any person with his money, he shall eat of his food, and those that are born in his house shall eat of his food.

Good News Translation
But a priest's slaves, bought with his own money or born in his home, may eat the food the priest receives.

Christian Standard Bible®
But if a priest purchases someone with his own silver, that person may eat it, and those born in his house may eat his food.

Literal Translation
And if a priest buys a person, the purchase of his silver, he shall eat of it; also one born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf ye prest bye a soule for his money, ye same maye eate therof. And loke who is borne in his house, maye eate of his bred also.

American Standard Version
But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

Bible in Basic English
But any person for whom the priest has given money, to make him his, may take of it with him; and those who come to birth in his house may take of his bread.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But if the priest bye any soule with money, he shall eate of it, like as he that is borne in his house: they shall eate of his meate.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he may eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they may eat of his bread.

King James Version (1611)
But if the Priest buy any soule with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is borne in his house: they shall eat of his meat.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But if a priest should have a soul purchased for money, he shall eat of his bread; and they that are born in his house, they also shall eat of his bread.

English Revised Version
But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

Berean Standard Bible
But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whom the preest hath bouyt, and which is a borun seruaunt of his hows, schulen ete of tho.

Young's Literal Translation
and when a priest buyeth a person, the purchase of his money, he doth eat of it, also one born in his house; they do eat of his bread.

Update Bible Version
But if a priest buys any soul, the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it, and one who is born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

Webster's Bible Translation
But if the priest shall buy [any] soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.

World English Bible
But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

New King James Version
But if the priest buys a person with his money, he may eat it; and one who is born in his house may eat his food.

New Life Bible
But a person whom the religious leader buys to work for him with his own money may eat of it. And those who are born in his house may eat of his food.

New Revised Standard
but if a priest acquires anyone by purchase, the person may eat of them; and those that are born in his house may eat of his food.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But when, a priest, buyeth any person, as the purchase of his silver, he may eat thereof, - and, the children of his household, they, may eat of his food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them.

Revised Standard Version
but if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it; and those that are born in his house may eat of his food.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, that one may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his food.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ "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. ¹¹ However, if the priest buys a slave for himself, the slave may eat from the sacred offerings. And if his slaves have children, they also may share his food. ¹² If a priest's daughter marries someone outside the priestly family, she may no longer eat the sacred offerings. ¹³ But if she becomes a widow or is divorced and has no children to support her, and she returns to live in her father's home as in her youth, she may eat her father's food again. Otherwise, no one outside a priest's family may eat the sacred offerings. ¹⁴ "Any such person who eats the sacred offerings without realizing it must pay the priest for the amount eaten, plus an additional 20 percent. ¹⁵ The priests must not let the Israelites defile the sacred offerings brought to the Lord ¹⁶ by allowing unauthorized people to eat them. This would bring guilt upon them and require them to pay compensation. I am the Lord who makes them holy."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his money: Heb. the purchase of his money, Genesis 17:13, Numbers 18:11-13

Cross-References

Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of water in the wilderness, along the road to Shur.

Genesis 21:17
But God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, "Hagar, what's wrong? Do not be afraid! God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.

Genesis 22:1
Some time later, God tested Abraham's faith. "Abraham!" God called. "Yes," he replied. "Here I am."

Genesis 22:9
When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood.

Genesis 22:10
And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice.

Genesis 22:12
"Don't lay a hand on the boy!" the angel said. "Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son."

Genesis 22:16
"This is what the Lord says: Because you have obeyed me and have not withheld even your son, your only son, I swear by my own name that

Exodus 3:4
When the Lord saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, "Moses! Moses!" "Here I am!" Moses replied.

1 Samuel 3:10
And the Lord came and called as before, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel replied, "Speak, your servant is listening."

Acts 9:4
He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if the priest buy [any] soul with his money, he shall eat of it,.... Whether any of his own nation, who sometimes, when become poor, were obliged to sell themselves; or a stranger, as the Targum of Jonathan; one of another nation, a Canaanitish servant, as Jarchi. Now these being his own purchase, and always to abide with him, became part of his family, and so might eat of the provisions of it; and it is from hence the Jews gather, as Jarchi and Gersom, that his wife might eat of the holy things, because bought with his money; but there is a better reason to be given for that, for of whatever family she was before, whether of the priests or not, by marriage she became a part, yea, a principal of his family, being one flesh with him, bearing the same name, and entitled to all the privileges of his house. This is extended by some Jewish writers l to cattle, for by any soul they understood also the soul of a beast, which being bought by the priest's money, might eat of the offerings of the tithes:

and he that is born in his house; they shall eat of his meat; whether male or female, as Aben Ezra; these are children of handmaids, as Jarchi, that were bought with his money; and these children being born of them, became his property, and part of his family, and so had a right to the provisions of his house. All this may teach us, that the holy ordinances of the Gospel are not to be administered to strangers, persons destitute of the grace of God, nor to such as are not of the family or church of God, but to such as are bought and redeemed with the blood of Christ, the high priest, and are born again of his Spirit and grace.

l Misn. Trumot, c. 11. sect. 9. & Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. Hilchot Trumot, c. 6. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This shows how completely a purchased bondsman was incorporated into the household. See Exodus 21:2, note; Exodus 21:20-21, note.