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New Revised Standard

Leviticus 22:12

If a priest's daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the sacred donations;

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.
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 lay person shall eat of the sacred donations. No bound or hired servant of the priest shall eat of the sacred donations; 11 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. 12 If a priest's daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the sacred donations; 13 but if a priest's daughter is widowed or divorced, without offspring, and returns to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food. No lay person shall eat of it. 14 If a man eats of the sacred donation unintentionally, he shall add one-fifth of its value to it, and give the sacred donation to the priest. 15 No one shall profane the sacred donations of the people of Israel, which they offer to the Lord , 16 causing them to bear guilt requiring a guilt offering, by eating their sacred donations: for I am the Lord ; I sanctify them.

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 did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
Genesis 22:2
He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you."
Genesis 22:6
Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.
Genesis 22:8
Abraham said, "God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together.
Genesis 22:9
When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Genesis 22:10
Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.
Genesis 22:12
He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
Genesis 22:13
And Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Genesis 22:21
Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
Genesis 22:22
Chesed, 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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