Leviticus 22:10

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.”

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BSBPD

“No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And no stranger doth eat of the holy thing; a settler of a priest and an hireling doth not eat of the holy thing;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 22:10 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 12:43And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
  2. Exodus 12:45A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.
  3. Exodus 29:33They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.
  4. Leviticus 21:22He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,
  5. 1 Samuel 21:6So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
  6. 1 Samuel 21:7Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.
  7. Ezra 2:63The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.
  8. Ezekiel 44:8And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.’
  9. Matthew 12:4He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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