12If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
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Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
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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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