Look at the rites of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
On all who will be guided by this rule, may peace and mercy rest, even upon the Israel of God.
Do you not know that as men who perform temple-rites get their food from the temple, and as attendants at the altar get their share of the sacrifices,
as well as a father of those circumcised persons who not only share circumcision but walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had as an uncircumcised man.
But if so, what can we say about Abraham, our forefather by natural descent?
concerning his Son, who was born of David's offspring by natural descent
Our altar is one of which the worshippers have no right to eat.