‘No outsider shall eat the holy offering; one who dwells with the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat the holy thing.
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
- KJV There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
- BSB No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.
- NASB ‘No layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a foreign resident with the priest or a hired worker shall not eat the holy gift.
- NLT “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.
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Quick answer
No outsider, foreign guest, or hired worker of a priest may eat the holy offerings.
Overview
The holy food was reserved for the priestly household, not for those merely associated with it by visit or wages. This boundary protected the distinction between what God set apart and common use. It anticipates how, under the gospel, access to God's holy things comes not by proximity or employment but by belonging to His household through faith (Ephesians 2:19).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Matt 12:4how he entered into God’s house, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
- 1 Sam 21:6So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
- Exod 29:33They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.
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