Leviticus 6:18

18 Every male descendant of Aharon may eat from it; it is his share of the offerings for ADONAI made by fire forever through all your generations. Whatever touches those offerings will become holy.'"

Leviticus 6:18 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 6:18

All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it,
&c.] And they only, for none but they might eat in the holy place, and therefore these holy things that were to be eaten there, were only eaten by them; what might be eaten by the priests in their own houses, their wives and daughters ate of, but in the holy place only their males, and a male was one that was thirteen years of age:

[it shall be] a statute for ever in your generations, concerning
the offerings of the Lord made by fire;
a statute to last till the Messiah should come, the true meat or bread offering; and the bread he gave was his flesh, and he that eats of it shall not die, but live for ever, ( John 6:27 John 6:51 ) :

everyone that toucheth them shall be holy;
signifying, that no one ought to touch them but a holy person, one devoted to holy services, the priests and their sons; or "whatsoever" ^F15 toucheth them, the dishes they eat those offerings out of, or the knives they cut them with, were not to be used for anything else.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (rva lk) "quicquid", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius.

Leviticus 6:18 In-Context

16 The rest of it Aharon and his sons are to eat; it is to be eaten without leaven in a holy place -they are to eat it in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.

17 It is not to be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire; like the sin offering and the guilt offering, it is especially

18 Every male descendant of Aharon may eat from it; it is his share of the offerings for ADONAI made by fire forever through all your generations. Whatever touches those offerings will become holy.'"

19 ADONAI said to Moshe,

20 "This is the offering for ADONAI that Aharon and his sons are to offer on the day he is anointed: two quarts of fine flour, half of it in the morning and half in the evening, as a grain offering from then on.