The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.
Leviticus 22:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘No one outside a priest’s family , is to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired worker is not to eat the holy offering. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition No outsider [not of the family of Aaron] shall eat of the holy thing [which has been offered to God]; a sojourner with the priest or a hired servant shall not eat of the holy thing. American Standard Version (1901) There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest’s, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. Common English Bible No layperson is allowed to eat the holy offerings. No foreign guest or hired laborer of a priest can eat it. Catholic Public Domain Version No foreigner shall eat from what has been sanctified; a guest of the priests and a hired servant shall not eat from them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them. |
The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ‘This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner may eat it.
They must eat those things by which atonement was made at the time of their ordination and consecration. An unauthorised person must not eat them, for these things are holy.
You have not kept charge of my holy things but have appointed others to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.”
He may eat the food of his God from what is especially holy as well as from what is holy.
But if the priest’s daughter becomes widowed or divorced, has no children, and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she may share her father’s food. But no outsider may share it.
You are to appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out their priestly responsibilities, but any unauthorised person who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.’
how he entered the house of God, and they ate the bread of the Presence #– #which is not lawful for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests?
So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, for there was no bread there except the Bread of the Presence that had been removed from the presence of the Lord. When the bread was removed, it had been replaced with warm bread.
One of Saul’s servants, detained before the Lord, was there that day. His name was Doeg the Edomite, chief of Saul’s shepherds.