Leviticus 22:11-28

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 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 pertained to them, Lev. 22:10. The priests are charged with this care, not to profane the holy things by permitting the strangers to eat of them (Lev. 22:15) or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass (Lev. 22:16); that is, suffer them to bring guilt upon themselves, by meddling with that which... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 22:17-33

Here are four laws concerning sacrifices:? I. Whatever was offered in sacrifice to God should be without blemish, otherwise it should not be accepted. This had often been mentioned in the particular institutions of the several sorts of offerings. Now here they are told what was to be accounted a blemish which rendered a beast unfit for sacrifice: if it was blind, or lame, had a wen, or the mange (Lev. 22:22),?if it was bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut (Lev. 22:24), that is, as the Jewish... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 22:11

But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it ,.... Whether any of his own nation, who sometimes, when become poor, were obliged to sell themselves; or a stranger, as the Targum of Jonathan; one of another nation, a Canaanitish servant, as Jarchi. Now these being his own purchase, and always to abide with him, became part of his family, and so might eat of the provisions of it; and it is from hence the Jews gather, as Jarchi and Gersom, that his wife might eat of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 22:12

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 priest; but is married either to a Levite, or an Israelite, as Jarchi: she may not eat of an offering of the holy things ; the heave shoulder or wave breast, &c.; being removed into another family by marriage, she is not reckoned of her father's family, and so had no more a right to eat of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 22:13

But if the priest's daughter be a widow or divorced ,.... If her husband be dead, or if living, and she is put away by him, whether a Levite, or an Israelite: and have no child : by him, as the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi add, nor is with child by him: and is returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat ; not of all, or any part, only of some, of the heave offering, but not of the shoulder or breast, which is the tradition of the wise men, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 22:14

And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly ,.... Either not knowing that it is an holy thing, or the heave offering, or any thing of that kind; or else is ignorant of the punishment of such an action, as Gersom observes; and this is to be understood of any man that was not a priest, or was not of the priest's family, even any common Israelite; so the Targum of Jonathan, a man of Israel, or an Israelite, one of the common people: then he shall put a fifth part thereof unto it ; a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 22:15

And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the Lord. By causing or suffering strangers to eat of them; so Jarchi, referring the words to the priests, who should be careful that strangers ate not of sacred things; or by the strangers themselves eating them, whereby they were profaned and used as common things. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 22:16

Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass ,.... The punishment of sin: either the strangers: when they eat their holy things ; the holy things belonging to the priests, which they permitting them to do, suffer them to be liable to the punishment incurred thereby, or else the priests themselves; so the Septuagint version renders the word "themselves"; and in like manner Jarchi interprets it; and then the sense may be, according to the Targums of Jonathan and Onkelos, that the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 22:17

And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... At the same time; for having said many things concerning the holiness of priests, whose business it was to offer sacrifices, he adds various things concerning the nature, condition, and circumstances of the sacrifices they were to offer: saying , as follows. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 22:18

Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons ,.... The priests, whose work it was to offer sacrifices, and therefore it behoved them to know what kind and sort were to be offered by them, when brought to them: and unto all the children of Israel : who were to bring the sacrifices, and for whom they were to be offered, and therefore should be acquainted with the nature and kind of what would be acceptable to God, and what not: and say unto them, whatsoever he be of the house of Israel ; this... read more

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