Leviticus 22:12
in Leviticus 22If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And if a priest’s daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.
KJV
If 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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This verse in Leviticus 22
Commentary
6 notes on this verseIf the priest's daughter also be married to a stranger,.... Not to an Heathen, but to any Israelite, that is, a common man, or a layman, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, one that is not a priest; but is married either to a Levite, or an Israelite, as Jarchi: she may not eat of an offering of the holy things; the heave shoulder or wave breast, &c. being removed into another family by marriage, she is not reckoned of her father's family, and so had no more a right to eat of the holy things.
This site's exposition
No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering
on Leviticus 22:10-16
Membership in the priest's household draws the line: a slave bought or born in his house eats, and a guest or hired hand does not. A daughter married outside the priestly families eats again only if she returns "widowed or divorced" with no children.
This site's exposition
married to a man other than a priest
John Gill reads the man as any layman, a Levite or an ordinary Israelite. John Wesley noted the mirror case: a priest's wife from another family ate, and a wife passed into her husband's name, state and privileges. The daughter leaves her father's table by the same rule.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
A stranger - To one of another family, who is no priest. Yet the priest's wife, though of another family, might eat. The reason of which difference is, because the wife passeth into the name, state and privileges of her husband, from whom the family is denominated.
If those whom Providence has made sorrowful widows, and who are dislodged from the rest they had in the house of a husband, yet find it again in a father's house, they have reason to be thankful to the widows' God, who does not leave them comfortless. Here is a demand of restitution to be made by him that had no right to the holy things, and yet should eat of them unwittingly,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבַת־ | uvat- | and a daughter of | H1323 → | 588 times |
| כֹּהֵ֔ן | kohen | a priest | H3548 → | 750 times |
| כִּ֥י | ki | if | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| תִהְיֶ֖ה | tihyeh | she will belong | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לְאִ֣ישׁ | leish | to a man | H376 → | 1663 times |
| זָ֑ר | zar | strange | H2114 → | 77 times |
| הִ֕וא | hi' | she | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| בִּתְרוּמַ֥ת | bitrumat | in [the] contribution of | H8641 → | 76 times |
| הַקֳּדָשִׁ֖ים | hakodashim | the holy things | H6944 → | 469 times |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תֹאכֵֽל׃ | tokhel | she will eat | H398 → | 810 times |
וּבַת־and a daughter of
uvat-H1323 →588 times
כֹּהֵ֔ןa priest
kohenH3548 →750 times
כִּ֥יif
kiH3588 →4482 times
תִהְיֶ֖הshe will belong
tihyehH1961 →3559 times
לְאִ֣ישׁto a man
leishH376 →1663 times
זָ֑רstrange
zarH2114 →77 times
הִ֕ואshe
hi'H1931 →1879 times
בִּתְרוּמַ֥תin [the] contribution of
bitrumatH8641 →76 times
הַקֳּדָשִׁ֖יםthe holy things
hakodashimH6944 →469 times
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תֹאכֵֽל׃she will eat
tokhelH398 →810 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.