16Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. …
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
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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