Leviticus 22:11

11 Wanneer dan nog de priester een ziel met zijn geld zal gekocht hebben, die zal daarvan eten; en de ingeborene van zijn huis, die zullen van zijn spijze eten.

Leviticus 22:11 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 22:11

But if the priest buy [any] soul with his money, he shall eat
of it
Whether any of his own nation, who sometimes, when become poor, were obliged to sell themselves; or a stranger, as the Targum of Jonathan; one of another nation, a Canaanitish servant, as Jarchi. Now these being his own purchase, and always to abide with him, became part of his family, and so might eat of the provisions of it; and it is from hence the Jews gather, as Jarchi and Gersom, that his wife might eat of the holy things, because bought with his money; but there is a better reason to be given for that, for of whatever family she was before, whether of the priests or not, by marriage she became a part, yea, a principal of his family, being one flesh with him, bearing the same name, and entitled to all the privileges of his house. This is extended by some Jewish writers ^F12 to cattle, for by any soul they understood also the soul of a beast, which being bought by the priest's money, might eat of the offerings of the tithes: and he that is born in his house; they shall eat of his meat;
whether male or female, as Aben Ezra; these are children of handmaids, as Jarchi, that were bought with his money; and these children being born of them, became his property, and part of his family, and so had a right to the provisions of his house. All this may teach us, that the holy ordinances of the Gospel are not to be administered to strangers, persons destitute of the grace of God, nor to such as are not of the family or church of God, but to such as are bought and redeemed with the blood of Christ, the high priest, and are born again of his Spirit and grace.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Misn. Trumot, c. 11. sect. 9. & Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. Hilchot Trumot, c. 6. sect. 1.

Leviticus 22:11 In-Context

9 Zij zullen dan Mijn bevel onderhouden, opdat zij geen zonde daarover dragen en daarin sterven, als zij die ontheiligd zouden hebben; Ik ben de HEERE, Die hen heilige!

10 Ook zal geen vreemde het heilige eten; een bijwoner des priesters, en een dagloner, zullen het heilige niet eten.

11 Wanneer dan nog de priester een ziel met zijn geld zal gekocht hebben, die zal daarvan eten; en de ingeborene van zijn huis, die zullen van zijn spijze eten.

12 Maar als des priesters dochter een vreemden man zal toebehoren, zij zal van het hefoffer der heilige dingen niet eten.

13 Doch als des priesters dochter een weduwe of een verstotene zal zijn, en geen zaad hebben, en tot haars vaders huis, als in haar jonkheid, zal wedergekeerd zijn, zo zal zij van de spijze haars vaders eten; maar geen vreemde zal daarvan eten.