Leviticus 7:6
Good News Translation
Any male of the priestly families may eat it, but it must be eaten in a holy place, because it is very holy.

New Revised Standard Version
Every male among the priests shall eat of it; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

Contemporary English Version
This sacrifice for making things right is very holy. Only the priests may eat it, and they must eat it in a holy place.

New American Bible
Every male of the priestly line may eat of it; but it must be eaten in a sacred place. It is most holy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.

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Leviticus 6:16-18,29 And the part of the flour that is left, Aaron and his sons shall eat, without leaven: and he shall eat it in the holy place of the court of the tabernacle. . . .

Numbers 18:9,10 These therefore shalt thou take of the things that are sanctified, and are offered to the Lord. Every offering, and sacrifice, and whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and for trespass, and becometh holy of holies, shall be for thee and thy sons. . . .

it is most holy

Leviticus 2:3 And the remnant of the sacrifice shall be Aaron's, and his sons', holy of holies of the offerings of the Lord.

Context
The Guilt Offering
5And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the burnt sacrifice of the Lord for a trespass. 6Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.7As the sacrifice for sin is offered, so is also that for a trespass: the same shall be the law of both these sacrifices. It shall belong to the priest that offereth it.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:13
Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with the altar?

1 Corinthians 10:18
Behold Israel according to the flesh. Are not they that eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

Leviticus 6:18
The males only of the race of Aaron shall eat it. It shall be an ordinance everlasting in your generations concerning the sacrifices of the Lord: Every one that toucheth them shall be sanctified.

Leviticus 6:29
Every male of the priestly race shall eat of the flesh thereof, because it is holy of holies.

Leviticus 7:5
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the burnt sacrifice of the Lord for a trespass.

Numbers 18:9
These therefore shalt thou take of the things that are sanctified, and are offered to the Lord. Every offering, and sacrifice, and whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and for trespass, and becometh holy of holies, shall be for thee and thy sons.

Ezekiel 42:13
And he said to me: The chambers of the north, and the chambers of the south, which are before the separate building: they are holy chambers, in which the priests shall eat, that approach to the Lord into the holy of holies: there they shall lay the most holy things, and the offering for sin, and for trespass: for it is a holy place.

Haggai 2:12
If a man carry sanctified flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touch with his skirt, bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat: shall it be sanctified? And the priests answered, and said: No.

Leviticus 7:5
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