Leviticus 22:12
New International Version
If a priest’s daughter marries anyone other than a priest, she may not eat any of the sacred contributions.

New Living Translation
If a priest’s daughter marries someone outside the priestly family, she may no longer eat the sacred offerings.

English Standard Version
If a priest’s daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy things.

Berean Standard Bible
If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.

King James Bible
If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

New King James Version
If the priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she may not eat of the holy offerings.

New American Standard Bible
If a priest’s daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the holy gifts.

NASB 1995
If a priest’s daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the gifts.

NASB 1977
‘And if a priest’s daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the gifts.

Legacy Standard Bible
If a priest’s daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy gifts.

Amplified Bible
If a priest’s daughter is married to a layman [one not part of the priestly tribe], she shall not eat the offering of the holy things.

Christian Standard Bible
If the priest’s daughter is married to a man outside a priest’s family, she is not to eat from the holy contributions.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If the priest’s daughter is married to a man outside a priest’s family, she is not to eat from the holy contributions.

American Standard Version
And if a priest's daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.

Contemporary English Version
If your daughter marries someone who isn't a priest, she can no longer have any of this food.

English Revised Version
And if a priest's daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
However, if a priest's daughter marries a layman, she must never eat the food taken from the holy contributions.

Good News Translation
A priest's daughter who marries someone who is not a priest may not eat any of the sacred offerings.

International Standard Version
If a priest's daughter marries a resident alien, she is not to eat the sacred raised offerings.

Majority Standard Bible
If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.

NET Bible
If a priest's daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,

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

Webster's Bible Translation
If the priest's daughter also shall be married to a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

World English Bible
If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And a priest’s daughter, when she is a strange man’s, she does not eat of the raised-offering of the holy things;

Young's Literal Translation
'And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's, -- she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat;

Smith's Literal Translation
And if the priest's daughter shall be for a man, a stranger, she shall not eat from the offering of the holies.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
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.

New American Bible
A priest’s daughter who is married to an unauthorized person may not eat of the sacred contributions.

New Revised Standard Version
If a priest’s daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the sacred donations;
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
If a priest's daughter is married to a stranger, she also may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And the daughter of the Priest, when she will belong to a man who is a foreigner, also she shall not eat from an offering of holiness.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if the daughter of a priest should marry a stranger, she shall not eat of the offerings of the sanctuary.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Restrictions Against the Unclean
11But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food. 12If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions. 13But 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.…

Cross References
Numbers 18:11-13
And 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. / I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits. / The firstfruits of everything in their land that they bring to the LORD will belong to you. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat them.

Exodus 29:33
They 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 10:14
And 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.

Deuteronomy 18:3-4
This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach. / You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.

1 Samuel 2:36
And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”

Nehemiah 13:29
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

Ezekiel 44:29-30
They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them. / The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes.

Malachi 2:1-9
“And now this decree is for you, O priests: / If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart. / Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it. ...

Matthew 12:4
He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.

Luke 10:7
Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

1 Corinthians 9:13-14
Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings? / In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

Hebrews 7:5
Now the law commands the sons of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their brothers—though they too are descended from Abraham.

Hebrews 13:10
We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Revelation 1:6
who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.


Treasury of Scripture

If the priest's daughter also be married to a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

a stranger.

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Leviticus 22
1. The priests in their uncleanness must abstain from the holy things
6. How they shall be cleansed
10. Who of the priest's house may eat of the holy things
17. The sacrifices must be without blemish
26. The age of the sacrifice
29. The law of eating the sacrifice of thanksgiving














If the priest’s daughter
The phrase "the priest’s daughter" refers to the offspring of a man who serves in the priestly office, a position of significant spiritual authority and responsibility in ancient Israel. The Hebrew term for "daughter" is "בַּת" (bat), which signifies a female child. In the context of Leviticus, the priestly family was held to a higher standard of holiness and separation due to their unique role in mediating between God and the people. The daughter, by virtue of her birth, was part of this sanctified family and shared in its privileges and responsibilities.

marries someone other than a priest
The act of marrying "someone other than a priest" indicates a transition from one household to another, specifically from a priestly family to a non-priestly one. The Hebrew verb for "marries" is "לָקַח" (laqach), meaning to take or to receive, often used in the context of marriage. This transition signifies a change in the daughter's status and her association with the priestly privileges. Historically, marriage was a covenantal act that often involved the merging of families and their respective roles and responsibilities.

she is not to eat
The prohibition "she is not to eat" underscores the importance of maintaining the sanctity of the sacred contributions. The Hebrew verb "אָכַל" (akal) means to consume or partake. In the context of Levitical law, eating was not merely a physical act but a participation in the holiness of the offerings. The restriction placed upon the priest’s daughter after her marriage to a non-priest highlights the boundaries set by God to preserve the sanctity of the priestly duties and the offerings dedicated to Him.

of the sacred contributions
The term "sacred contributions" refers to the offerings that were set apart for the priests and their families as part of their sustenance and as a symbol of their service to God. The Hebrew word for "sacred" is "קֹדֶשׁ" (qodesh), meaning holy or set apart. These contributions were a portion of the sacrifices and offerings brought by the Israelites, designated for the priests as part of their divine provision. The sacred nature of these contributions required that only those within the priestly family, who were in a state of ritual purity, could partake of them.

(12) If the priest's daughter also be married.--Better, And if the priest's daughter be married, By marrying a Hebrew of non-Aaronic descent, and thus leaving her paternal home, the daughter of the priest ceased to be part of the family circle, and lost her right to partake of the holy things. Her bread came from her husband, and she could therefore no longer partake of the priest's bread. During the second Temple the term "stranger" in this verse was also interpreted to include a man who ought to be a stranger to her, and hence it was enacted that if the priest's daughter had gone astray with a stranger (see Leviticus 21:7; Leviticus 21:9), she is for ever forbidden to eat of the holy food.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the priest’s
כֹּהֵ֔ן (kō·hên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3548: Priest

daughter
וּבַת־ (ū·ḇaṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

is married
תִהְיֶ֖ה (ṯih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

to a man
לְאִ֣ישׁ (lə·’îš)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

other [than a priest],
זָ֑ר (zār)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery

she
הִ֕וא (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

is not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

to eat
תֹאכֵֽל׃ (ṯō·ḵêl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 398: To eat

of the sacred
הַקֳּדָשִׁ֖ים (haq·qo·ḏā·šîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

contributions.
בִּתְרוּמַ֥ת (biṯ·rū·maṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8641: Contribution, offering (for sacred uses)


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