Leviticus 22:12
Verse 12 of 33. The 22nd of 27 chapters in Leviticus, in The Law.
8That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord.
9They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the Lord do sanctify them.
10There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
11But 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.
12If the priest’s daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
13But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
14And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the Lord;
16Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the Lord do sanctify them.
Leviticus 22:12 in the World English Bible
If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.Read Leviticus 22:12 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 22:12
While they continued in their father's house they might eat of the holy things; but, if they married such as were not priests, they lost their right (v. 12), for now they were cut off from the family of the priests. Yet if a priest's daughter became a widow, and had no children in whom she might preserve a distinct family, and returned to her father's house again, being neither wife nor mother, she should again be looked upon as…
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