7And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
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He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. …
Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? …
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. …
Have we not power to eat and to drink?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Those that had a natural blemish, though they were forbidden to do the priests’ work, were yet allowed to eat of the holy things: and the Jewish writers say that “to keep them from idleness they were employed in the wood-room, to pick out that which was worm-eaten, that it might not be used in the fire upon the altar; they might also be employed in the judgment of leprosy:” but, I. Those that were…
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