Leviticus 6:29
Good News Translation
Any male of the priestly families may eat this offering; it is very holy.

New Revised Standard Version
Every male among the priests shall eat of it; it is most holy.

Contemporary English Version
This sacrifice is very holy, and only the priests may have any part of it.

New American Bible
Every male of the priestly line may eat it. It is most holy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Every male of the priestly race shall eat of the flesh thereof, because it is holy of holies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Every male of the priestly race shall eat of the flesh thereof, because it is holy of holies.

the males

Leviticus 6:18 The males only of the race of Aaron shall eat it. It shall be an ordinance everlasting in your generations concerning the sacrifices of the Lord: Every one that toucheth them shall be sanctified.

Leviticus 18:10 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy son's daughter, or thy daughter's daughter: because it is thy own nakedness.

it is

Leviticus 6:25 Say to Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the victim for sin. In the place where the holocaust is offered, it shall be immolated before the Lord. It is holy of holies.

Context
The Sin Offering
28And the earthen vessel, wherein it was sodden, shall be broken: but if the vessel be of brass, it shall be scoured, and washed with water. 29Every male of the priestly race shall eat of the flesh thereof, because it is holy of holies.30For the victim that is slain for sin, the blood of which is carried into the tabernacle of the testimony to make atonement in the sanctuary, shall not be eaten, but shall be burnt with fire.…
Cross References
Leviticus 6:17
And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall be most holy, as that which is offered for sin and for trespass.

Leviticus 6:18
The males only of the race of Aaron shall eat it. It shall be an ordinance everlasting in your generations concerning the sacrifices of the Lord: Every one that toucheth them shall be sanctified.

Leviticus 6:25
Say to Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the victim for sin. In the place where the holocaust is offered, it shall be immolated before the Lord. It is holy of holies.

Leviticus 6:26
The priest that offereth it, shall eat it in a holy place, in the court of the tabernacle.

Leviticus 7:6
Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.

Ezekiel 42:13
And he said to me: The chambers of the north, and the chambers of the south, which are before the separate building: they are holy chambers, in which the priests shall eat, that approach to the Lord into the holy of holies: there they shall lay the most holy things, and the offering for sin, and for trespass: for it is a holy place.

Haggai 2:12
If a man carry sanctified flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touch with his skirt, bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat: shall it be sanctified? And the priests answered, and said: No.

Leviticus 6:28
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