Leviticus 22:7

7 When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the holy offerings, for that is his food.^[a]

Leviticus 22:7 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 22:7

And when the sun is down he shall be clean
Having washed himself in water, otherwise not, though the sun may be set: and shall afterwards eat of the holy things;
the families of the priests lived upon: because it [is] his food:
his common food, his ordinary diet, that by which he subsists, having nothing else to live upon; this being the ordination of God, that he which ministered about holy things should live on them; and these being his only substance, in compassion to him they were detained from him no longer than the evening; and this was done, to make him careful how he defiled himself, since thereby he was debarred of his ordinary meals.

Leviticus 22:7 In-Context

5 or whoever touches any swarming creature that makes him unclean or any person who makes him unclean-whatever his uncleanness-

6 the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening and is not to eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body with water.

7 When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the holy offerings, for that is his food.

8 He must not eat an animal that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts, making himself unclean by it; I am the Lord.

9 They must keep My instruction, or they will be guilty and die because they profane it; I am the Lord who sets them apart.

Footnotes

• [a] Lv 6:16-18,29; 7:7-10,32-36