Leviticus 21:22

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He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 2:3 : 3 The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and to his sons– it is most holy from the gifts of the LORD.
  • Lev 2:10 : 10 The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and to his sons– it is most holy from the gifts of the LORD.
  • Lev 7:1 : 1 The Guilt Offering“‘This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.
  • Num 18:9-9 : 9 Of all the most holy offerings reserved from the fire this will be yours: Every offering of theirs, whether from every grain offering or from every purification offering or from every reparation offering which they bring to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons. 10 You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.
  • Num 18:19 : 19 All the raised offerings of the holy things that the Israelites offer to the LORD, I have given to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your descendants with you.”
  • 1 Cor 9:13 : 13 Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?
  • Lev 22:10-13 : 10 “‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy, 11 but if a priest buys a person with his own money, that person may eat the holy offerings, and those born in the priest’s own house may eat his food. 12 If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings, 13 but if a priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and she has no children so that she returns to live in her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat from her father’s food, but no lay person may eat it.
  • Lev 24:8-9 : 8 Each Sabbath day Aaron must arrange it before the LORD continually; this portion is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant. 9 It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetual allotted portion from the gifts of the LORD.
  • Lev 6:16-17 : 16 Aaron and his sons are to eat what is left over from it. It must be eaten unleavened in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Meeting Tent. 17 It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion from my gifts. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
  • Lev 6:29 : 29 Any male among the priests may eat it. It is most holy.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 21:8
    84%

    8You must sanctify him because he presents the food of your God. He must be holy to you because I, the LORD who sanctifies you all, am holy.

  • Lev 21:23
    82%

    23but he must not go near the special curtain or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus he must not profane my holy places, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

  • Num 18:9-10
    2 verses
    82%

    9Of all the most holy offerings reserved from the fire this will be yours: Every offering of theirs, whether from every grain offering or from every purification offering or from every reparation offering which they bring to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons.

    10You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.

  • Lev 7:6
    81%

    6Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

  • Lev 22:6-7
    2 verses
    80%

    6the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.

    7When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food.

  • Lev 21:21
    80%

    21No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward to present the LORD’s gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.

  • Lev 21:6
    80%

    6“‘They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the LORD’s gifts, the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy.

  • Lev 6:29
    79%

    29Any male among the priests may eat it. It is most holy.

  • Lev 22:14-17
    4 verses
    78%

    14“‘If a man eats a holy offering by mistake, he must add one fifth to it and give the holy offering to the priest.

    15They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the LORD,

    16and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt when they eat their holy offerings, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

    17Regulations for Offering Votive and Freewill Offerings The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 29:31-34
    4 verses
    78%

    31“You are to take the ram of the consecration and cook its meat in a holy place.

    32Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that was in the basket at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

    33They are to eat those things by which atonement was made to consecrate and to set them apart, but no one else may eat them, for they are holy.

    34If any of the meat from the consecration offerings or any of the bread is left over until morning, then you are to burn up what is left over. It must not be eaten, because it is holy.

  • Lev 22:10-12
    3 verses
    78%

    10“‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,

    11but if a priest buys a person with his own money, that person may eat the holy offerings, and those born in the priest’s own house may eat his food.

    12If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,

  • Lev 6:26
    77%

    26The priest who offers it for sin is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Meeting Tent.

  • Lev 6:16-18
    3 verses
    77%

    16Aaron and his sons are to eat what is left over from it. It must be eaten unleavened in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Meeting Tent.

    17It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion from my gifts. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

    18Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion throughout your generations from the gifts of the LORD. Anyone who touches these gifts must be holy.’”

  • Lev 21:15-17
    3 verses
    76%

    15He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”

    16Rules for the Priesthood The LORD spoke to Moses:

    17“Tell Aaron,‘No man from your descendants throughout their generations who has a physical flaw is to approach to present the food of his God.

  • Lev 24:9
    76%

    9It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetual allotted portion from the gifts of the LORD.

  • Lev 22:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”

    26The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Ezek 42:13
    76%

    13Then he said to me,“The north chambers and the south chambers which face the courtyard are holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings– the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, because the place is holy.

  • Lev 21:12
    74%

    12He must not go out from the sanctuary and must not profane the sanctuary of his God, because the dedication of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the LORD.

  • Lev 10:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17“Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sanctuary? For it is most holy and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement on their behalf before the LORD.

    18See here! Its blood was not brought into the holy place within! You should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary just as I commanded!”

  • Exod 29:23
    74%

    23and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the LORD.

  • Lev 2:3
    74%

    3The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and to his sons– it is most holy from the gifts of the LORD.

  • Lev 19:8
    74%

    8and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person will be cut off from his people.

  • 1 Sam 21:6
    74%

    6So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the LORD in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.

  • Lev 10:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12Perpetual Statutes Moses spoke to Aaron Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his remaining sons,“Take the grain offering which remains from the gifts of the LORD and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.

    13You must eat it in a holy place because it is your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from the gifts of the LORD, for this is what I have been commanded.

  • Exod 30:29
    73%

    29So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy.

  • Lev 2:10
    73%

    10The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and to his sons– it is most holy from the gifts of the LORD.

  • Lev 22:4
    73%

    4No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,

  • Exod 29:2
    73%

    2and bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread with oil– you are to make them using fine wheat flour.

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
    72%

    9(Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.)

  • Num 15:19
    72%

    19and you eat some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering to the LORD.

  • Num 18:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

    31And you may eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting.

    32And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

  • Lev 2:8
    72%

    8“‘You must bring the grain offering that must be made from these to the LORD. Present it to the priest, and he will bring it to the altar.