Leviticus 21:22
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New International Version (©2011)
He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food;

New Living Translation (©2007)
However, he may eat from the food offered to God, including the holy offerings and the most holy offerings.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He may eat the food of his God from what is especially holy as well as from what is holy.

International Standard Version (©2012)
However, he may eat the food of his God, including the most holy and the holy offerings,

NET Bible (©2006)
He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He may eat the food of his God-what is holy and what is very holy.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

American King James Version
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

American Standard Version
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves, that are offered in the sanctuary,

Darby Bible Translation
The bread of his God, of the most holy and of the holy, shall he eat;

English Revised Version
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

Webster's Bible Translation
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

World English Bible
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

Young's Literal Translation
'Bread of his God -- of the most holy things, and of the holy things -- he doth eat;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:1-24 Laws concerning the priests. - As these priests were types of Christ, so all ministers must be followers of him, that their example may teach others to imitate the Saviour. Without blemish, and separate from sinners, He executed his priestly office on earth. What manner of persons then should his ministers be! But all are, if Christians, spiritual priests; the minister especially is called to set a good example, that the people may follow it. Our bodily infirmities, blessed be God, cannot now shut us out from his service, from these privileges, or from his heavenly glory. Many a healthful, beautiful soul is lodged in a feeble, deformed body. And those who may not be suited for the work of the ministry, may serve God with comfort in other duties in his church.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 (g); 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, &c.

(g) Misn. Zebachim, c. 12. sect. 1.

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Restrictions against Those with Blemishes
…21No man that has a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. 22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. 23Only he shall not go in to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

1 Corinthians 9:13 Don't you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?
Leviticus 21:23 yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.'"
Leviticus 22:25 and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.'"