Leviticus 22:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Leviticus 22:12 —

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Isaiah 40:13
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
Leviticus 21:3
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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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

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,…