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Leviticus 22:12

Listen to Leviticus 22:12
12 However, if a priest's daughter marries a layman, she must never eat the food taken from the holy contributions.

Leviticus 22:12 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 22:12

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 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.

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Leviticus 22:12 In-Context

10 "Laypeople must never eat any holy offering, even if they are visiting a priest or are working for him.
11 But if a priest buys a slave, the slave and anyone born in his household may eat the priest's food.
12 However, if a priest's daughter marries a layman, she must never eat the food taken from the holy contributions.
13 If a priest's daughter is widowed or divorced, doesn't have any children, and comes back to live in her father's home, she may eat her father's food. But a layperson must never eat it.
14 "Those who eat a holy offering by mistake must give another holy offering to the priest and add one-fifth more to it.
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