He shall eat the bread of his God
That part of the sacrifices which was appropriated by the Lord to
the priests, for the maintenance of them and their families; for
though their natural infirmities disqualified them for service,
yet they did not become hereby impure, either in a moral nor
ceremonial sense, and might eat of the sacrifices, which impure
persons might not; and so the tradition is, blemished persons,
whether their blemishes are fixed or transient, may divide and
eat, but not offer F7; these being priests, and having no
inheritance, nor any way of getting their livelihood, provision
is made for them that they might not perish through their defects
in nature, which were not voluntary and brought upon them by
themselves, but by the providence of God; and such were allowed
to eat
[both] of the most holy and of the holy;
there were things the priests eat of, which were most holy, as
what remained of the meat offerings, and of the sin offerings,
and of the trespass offerings, which only the males of the
priest's family might eat of, and that only in the holy place;
and there were others less holy, the lighter holy things, as the
Jews call them, as the wave breast, and heave shoulder, and the
tithes and firstfruits, which were eaten of by all in their
families, their daughters as well as their sons, and in their own
houses; now of each of these might the blemished priests eat; see
( Numbers
18:9 Numbers
18:10 )