Leviticus 22:10 “No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may…”

Leviticus 22:10

No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

World English Bible

“‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

American Standard Version

There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest’s, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

Geneva Bible 1599

There shall no stranger also eate of the holie thing, neither the ghest of the Priest, neither shall an hired seruant eat of the holie thing:

Darby Translation

And no stranger shall eat the holy thing; the sojourner with the priest, and the hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

Young's Literal Translation

'And no stranger doth eat of the holy thing; a settler of a priest and an hireling doth not eat of the holy thing;

Bible in Basic English

No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.

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Cross references

“There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.”

1 Samuel 21:6 Matthew 12:4

1 Samuel 21:6 · BSB

So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.

Matthew 12:4 · BSB

He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.

Also

Exodus 29:33

Exodus 29:33 · BSB

They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

11But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.

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