Leviticus 22:11
New International Version
But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if slaves are born in his household, they may eat his food.

New Living Translation
However, if the priest buys a slave for himself, the slave may eat from the sacred offerings. And if his slaves have children, they also may share his food.

English Standard Version
but if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food.

Berean Standard Bible
But 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.

King James Bible
But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.

New King James Version
But if the priest buys a person with his money, he may eat it; and one who is born in his house may eat his food.

New American Standard Bible
But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, that person may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his food.

NASB 1995
But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, that one may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his food.

NASB 1977
‘But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, that one may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his food.

Legacy Standard Bible
But if a priest buys a person as his property with his money, that one may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his food.

Amplified Bible
But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, the slave may eat the holy thing, and those who are born in the priest’s house; they may eat his food.

Christian Standard Bible
But if a priest purchases someone with his own silver, that person may eat it, and those born in his house may eat his food.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But if a priest purchases someone with his money, that person may eat it, and those born in his house may eat his food.

American Standard Version
But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the Priest, when he will buy a person, he who is bought with his money will eat of his bread, and those born in his house, those shall eat of his bread.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But if a priest should have a soul purchased for money, he shall eat of his bread; and they that are born in his house, they also shall eat of his bread.

Contemporary English Version
However, any slave that you own, including those born into your household, may eat this food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them.

English Revised Version
But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But if a priest buys a slave, the slave and anyone born in his household may eat the priest's food.

Good News Translation
But a priest's slaves, bought with his own money or born in his home, may eat the food the priest receives.

International Standard Version
If a priest acquires a slave as property with his own money, he may eat with him. Those who were born in his house may eat his food.

JPS Tanakh 1917
But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he may eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they may eat of his bread.

Literal Standard Version
but when a priest buys a person, the purchase of his money, he eats of it, also one born in his house; they eat of his bread.

Majority Standard Bible
But 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.

New American Bible
But a slave whom a priest acquires by purchase or who is born in his house may eat of his food.

NET Bible
but if a priest buys a person with his own money, that person may eat the holy offerings, and those born in the priest's own house may eat his food.

New Revised Standard Version
but if a priest acquires anyone by purchase, the person may eat of them; and those that are born in his house may eat of his food.

New Heart English Bible
But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

Webster's Bible Translation
But if the priest shall buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.

World English Bible
But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and those who are born in his house shall eat of his bread.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

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Context
Restrictions Against the Unclean
10No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it. 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. 12If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.…

Cross References
Genesis 12:5
And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Genesis 17:13
Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.

Exodus 12:44
But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.

Leviticus 22:12
If the priest's daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.


Treasury of Scripture

But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.

Genesis 17:13
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

Numbers 18:11-13
And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it…

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Leviticus 22
1. The priests in their uncleanness must abstain from the holy things
6. How they shall be cleansed
10. Who of the priest's house may eat of the holy things
17. The sacrifices must be without blemish
26. The age of the sacrifice
29. The law of eating the sacrifice of thanksgiving














(11) But if the priest buy any soul.--The case, however, was different with heathen slaves whom the priest purchased. These were admitted into the Jewish community by the rite of circumcision, they were allowed to partake of the paschal lamb, and of every privilege of the Israelites. Hence they became incorporated in the priestly family, and were allowed to eat of the holy things. During the second Temple this privilege was extended to that kind of domestic whom the priest did not actually acquire by his own purchase-money, but whom the wife brought with her as part of her dowry, as well as to those whom the slaves of the priestly family purchased.

Born in his house.--That is, the house-born servant or the child of the slave. (See Genesis 17:12-13.) Even when the priest himself could not eat of the holy things by reason of his having contracted some legal defilement, his wife, children, and slaves were permitted to partake of the sacrificial repast.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But if
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

a priest
וְכֹהֵ֗ן (wə·ḵō·hên)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3548: Priest

purchases
יִקְנֶ֥ה (yiq·neh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7069: To erect, create, to procure, by purchase, to own

someone
נֶ֙פֶשׁ֙ (ne·p̄eš)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

with
קִנְיַ֣ן (qin·yan)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7075: Creation, creatures, acquisition, purchase, wealth

his money,
כַּסְפּ֔וֹ (kas·pōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3701: Silver, money

or one
הֵ֖ם (hêm)
Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1992: They

is born
וִילִ֣יד (wî·lîḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3211: Born

in his household,
בֵּית֔וֹ (bê·ṯōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

that person
ה֖וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

may eat
יֹ֣אכַל (yō·ḵal)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 398: To eat

of it.
בּ֑וֹ (bōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew


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