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

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Parallel Verses

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.

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.

New American Standard Bible
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Darby Bible Translation
But if a priest buy any one for money, he may eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they may eat of his food.

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.

Cross References

Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

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

Exodus 12:44
But every man's servant that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

Leviticus 22:12
If the priest's daughter also be married to a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

22:1-33 Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices. - In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his ordinances, and commandments. Let us beware of hypocrisy, and examine ourselves concerning our sinful defilements, seeking to be purified from them in the blood of Christ, and by his sanctifying Spirit. Whoever attempts to expiate his own sin, or draws near in the pride of self-righteousness, puts as great an affront on Christ, as he who comes to the Lord's table from the gratification of sinful lusts. Nor can the minister who loves the souls of the people, suffer them to continue in this dangerous delusion. He must call upon them, not only to repent of their sins, and forsake them; but to put their whole trust in the atonement of Christ, by faith in his name, for pardon and acceptance with God; thus only will the Lord make them holy, as his own people.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Le 22:10-16. Who of the Priests' House May Eat of Them.

10-13. There shall no stranger eat the holy thing—The portion of the sacrifices assigned for the support of the officiating priests was restricted to the exclusive use of his own family. A temporary guest or a hired servant was not at liberty to eat of them; but an exception was made in favor of a bought or homeborn slave, because such was a stated member of his household. On the same principle, his own daughter, who married a husband not a priest, could not eat of them. However, if a widow and childless, she was reinstated in the privileges of her father's house as before her marriage. But if she had become a mother, as her children had no right to the privileges of the priesthood, she was under a necessity of finding support for them elsewhere than under her father's roof.