Leviticus 22:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.”
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“But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But if a priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and be returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s bread: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and a priest's daughter, when she is a widow, or cast out, and hath no seed, and hath turned back unto the house of her father, as <FI>in<Fi> her youth, of her father's bread she doth eat; but no stranger doth eat of it.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 22:13 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 38:11Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
- Exodus 12:43And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
- 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.
- Leviticus 10:14And you and your sons and daughters may eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution in a ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.
- Numbers 18:11And this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat it.
- Deuteronomy 24:2If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife,
- 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.
- Ezra 2:63The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.
- Ezekiel 44:8And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.’
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