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10 Neither an unauthorized person nor a priest’s tenant or laborer may eat of any sacred offering.(A) 11 But a slave[a] whom a priest acquires by purchase or who is born in his house may eat of his food. 12 [b]A priest’s daughter who is married to an unauthorized person may not eat of the sacred contributions.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:11 Slave: in contrast to the tenant or hired worker of v. 10, the slave, who is by definition a foreigner, is part of the priest’s household and therefore may eat of sacrifices.
  2. 22:12–13 A priest’s daughter, when a dependent of her father, may eat of the lesser holy offerings.