11But 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
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. …
But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-16)The holy things were to be eaten by the priests and their families. Now, I. Here is a law that no stranger should eat of them, that is, no person whatsoever but the priests only, and those that pertained to them, Lev. 22:10. The priests are charged with this care, not to profane the holy things by permitting the strangers to eat of them (Lev. 22:15) or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass…
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