Leviticus 22:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 22:10

Leviticus 22:10. There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing By holy thing here is meant, that portion of the sacrifices which belonged to the priests. And by stranger is not meant one of another nation, in distinction from a native Jew, but one who was not of the priest’s own family, whether Jew, or Gentile proselyte. A sojourner One that came to his house, and abode there for a season, and ate at his table, was not to eat of it. There is one exception, however, to this rule, in the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 22:1-16

Rules concerning priests (21:1-22:16)Priests carried a heavy responsibility in acting on the people’s behalf in offering their sacrifices, and therefore they had to guard against ceremonial uncleanness. They were to have nothing to do with the burial of the dead, except in the case of close relatives, and were not to make public show of their sorrow by disfiguring themselves. They and their families were to be blameless in all things moral (21:1-9).Rules for the high priest were even stricter... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Leviticus 22:10

"There shall be no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest's or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread. And if the priest's daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things. But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and be returned unto her father's... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 22:10

Leviticus 22:10. Holy thing— Compare chap. Leviticus 21:22. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 22:10

10-13. There shall no stranger eat the holy thing—The portion of the sacrifices assigned for the support of the officiating priests was restricted to the exclusive use of his own family. A temporary guest or a hired servant was not at liberty to eat of them; but an exception was made in favor of a bought or homeborn slave, because such was a stated member of his household. On the same principle, his own daughter, who married a husband not a priest, could not eat of them. However, if a widow and... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 22:1-33

3. The third list of regulations for priests ch. 22The previous section (Leviticus 21:16-24) named physical impediments that prohibited some priests from offering sacrifices. This one identifies the circumstances under which priests could neither officiate at the sacrifices nor eat priestly food. Twenty-eight selected laws (7 x 4) compose this section. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 22:10-16

Persons who could not eat the sacred offerings 22:10-16Another list of seven laws guarded the offerings. No non-priest could eat the sacrifices the priests ate except those who had become members of a priest’s household. The principle appears at the beginning and at the end of the list (Leviticus 22:10; Leviticus 22:13 b) with a brief statement regarding restitution for accidentally eating an offering following (Leviticus 22:14-16). All these regulations guarded the holiness of God by treating... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 22:1-33

Laws relating to the Priesthood and Sacrifice (continued)1-6. The holy things may not be eaten by priests otherwise qualified, but ceremonially unclean, nor by any persons outside the priestly family.10. Stranger] i.e. one not a priest, nor a member of a priest’s family, even though he be an Israelite: see Exodus 29:33. A slave purchased outright is considered to be a member of the family (Leviticus 22:11).14. Unwittingly] not knowing, perhaps, that it was a holy tiling: see on Leviticus 4:2;... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 22:10

(10) There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing.—By “stranger” here is meant a non-Aaronite who was a stranger to the priestly family, though he was an Israelite, or even a Levite. The holy things are the peace offerings. (See Leviticus 7:30.)A sojourner of the priest.—This, during the second Temple, was a Hebrew servant whose ear had been pierced, and who thus became his master’s property till the year of jubile. (See Exodus 21:6.)Or an hired servant.—That is, a Hebrew servant who is hired... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 22:1-33

THE LAW OF PRIESTLY HOLINESSLeviticus 21:1-24; Leviticus 22:1-33THE conception of Israel as a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, was concretely represented in a threefold division of the people, -the congregation, the priesthood, and the high priest. This corresponded to the threefold division of the tabernacle into the outer court, the holy place, and the holy of holies, each in succession more sacred than the place preceding. So while all Israel was called to be a priestly nation, holy to... read more

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