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Leviticus 22:12

Listen to Leviticus 22:12
12 `And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's, -- she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat;

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 `And no stranger doth eat of the holy thing; a settler of a priest and an hireling doth not eat of the holy thing;
11 and when a priest buyeth a person, the purchase of his money, he doth eat of it, also one born in his house; they do eat of his bread.
12 `And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's, -- she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat;
13 and a priest's daughter, when she is a widow, or cast out, and hath no seed, and hath turned back unto the house of her father, as [in] her youth, of her father's bread she doth eat; but no stranger doth eat of it.
14 `And when a man doth eat of a holy thing through ignorance, then he hath added its fifth part to it, and hath given [it] to the priest, with the holy thing;

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