Leviticus 22:10

Easy To Read Version

Only people from a priest’s family can eat the holy food. A visitor staying with the priest or a hired worker must not eat any of the holy food.

Cross References

Ezra 2:63

The governor ordered these people not to eat any of the holy food. They could not eat any of this food until there was a priest who could use the Urim and Thummim {\cf2\super [7]} to ask God what to do.

Exodus 12:43

The Lord told Moses and Aaron, “Here are the rules for Passover: No foreigner is to eat the Passover.

Exodus 12:45

But if a person just lives in your country, or if a person is only hired to work for you, then that person must not eat the Passover. {Passover is for the people of Israel.}

Exodus 29:33

These offerings were used to take away their sins when they were made priests. Now they should eat those offerings.

Ezekiel 44:8

You did not take care of my holy things. No, you let foreigners have responsibility of my holy place!’”

Leviticus 21:22

{That person is from the family of priests,} so he can eat the holy bread. He can also eat the very holy bread.

Leviticus 22:13

A priest’s daughter might become a widow, [393] or she might become divorced. If she does not have any children {to support her} and she goes back to her father’s house {where she lived} as a child, then she can eat some of her father’s food. But only people from a priest’s family can eat this food.

Numbers 3:10

“Appoint Aaron and his sons to be priests. They must do their duty and serve as priests. Any other person who tries to come near the holy things [30] must be killed.”

Matthew 12:4

David went into God’s house. David and the people with him ate the bread that was offered to God. It was against the law for David or the people with him to eat that bread. Only the priests were allowed to eat it.

1 Samuel 21:6

David answered the priest, “We have not been with any women. My men keep their bodies holy every time we go out to fight, even on ordinary missions. [182] And this is especially true today, when our work is so special.”

1 Samuel 21:7

There was no bread except the Holy Bread. [183] So the priest gave David that bread. This was the bread that the priests put on the holy table before the Lord. Each day they took this bread away and put fresh bread in its place.