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Leviticus 22:12

Leviticus 22:12
If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger , she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Leviticus 22:10-16

The holy things were to be eaten by the priests and their families. Now,

I. Here is a law that no stranger should eat of them, that is, no person whatsoever but the priests only, and those that…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

a stranger i.e. not a priest. By her marriage she has become a member of a non-priestly family, and thus her rights have lapsed. Cp. Lev 21:3.

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