Leviticus - 22:12



12 If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 22:12.

Differing Translations

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If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
If the daughter of a priest be married to any of the people, she shall not eat of those things that are sanctified, nor of the firstfruits.
And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's,, she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat;
And if the daughter of a priest is married to an outside person she may not take of the holy things which are lifted up as offerings.
And if a priest's daughter be married unto a common man, she shall not eat of that which is set apart from the holy things.
If the daughter of a priest has been married to any of the people, she shall not eat from what has been sanctified, nor from the first-fruits.
Filia autem sacerdotis quum fuerit viro alieno: ipsa de oblatione sanctificationum non comedet.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

A stranger - One of another family.

If the priest's daughter also be [married] unto a (f) stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
(f) Who is not of the priests kindred.

If the priest's daughter also be married to a stranger,.... Not to an Heathen, but to any Israelite, that is, a common man, or a layman, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, one that is not a priest; but is married either to a Levite, or an Israelite, as Jarchi:
she may not eat of an offering of the holy things; the heave shoulder or wave breast, &c. being removed into another family by marriage, she is not reckoned of her father's family, and so had no more a right to eat of the holy things.

A stranger - To one of another family, who is no priest. Yet the priest's wife, though of another family, might eat. The reason of which difference is, because the wife passeth into the name, state and privileges of her husband, from whom the family is denominated.

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