Leviticus 21 · Verse 22

Leviticus 21:22

He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
Leviticus 21:22, King James Version

Leviticus 21:22 in other translations

BSBHe may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,
WEBHe shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
ASVHe shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:
YLT‘Bread of his God--of the most holy things, and of the holy things--he doth eat;
DARBYThe bread of his God, of the most holy and of the holy, shall he eat;
BBEHe may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;
WebsterHe shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

What does Leviticus 21:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 21:16-24

16-24. Whosoever he be ... hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God--As visible things exert a strong influence on the minds of men, any physical infirmity or malformation of body in the ministers of religion, which disturbs the associations or excites ridicule, tends to detract from the weight and authority of the sacred office. Priests laboring under any personal defect were not allowed…

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Leviticus 21:22 in the original Hebrew

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לֶ֣חֶםLe.chem[the] food ofH3899
אֱלֹהָ֔יו'e.lo.HavGod hisH430
מִקָּדְשֵׁ֖יmi.ka.de.Sheifrom [the] holy things ofH6944
הַקֳּדָשִׁ֑יםha.ko.da.Shimthe holy thingsH6944
וּמִן\־u.min-and fromH4480
הַקֳּדָשִׁ֖יםha.ko.da.Shimthe holy thingsH6944
יֹאכֵֽל\׃yo.Khelhe will eatH398

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Leviticus 21:22

  • Leviticus 2:3

    And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

  • Leviticus 7:1

    Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.

  • Leviticus 2:10

    And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

  • Numbers 18:9-10

    This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.

  • Leviticus 22:10-13

    There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat. If the priest’s daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

  • Leviticus 24:8-9

    Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute.

  • 1 Corinthians 9:13

    Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

  • Numbers 18:19

    All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

  • Leviticus 6:16-17

    And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it. It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

  • Leviticus 6:29

    All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.

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both.
2:3,10; 6:16,17,29; 7:1; 24:8,9; Nu 18:9,10
and of the holy.
22:10-13; Nu 18:10,19

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Context

  • Leviticus 21:21

    No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

  • Leviticus 21:22

    He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

  • Leviticus 21:23

    Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the Lord do sanctify them.

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Leviticus 21:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
El pan de su Dios, de lo muy santo y las cosas santificadas, comerá.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Il mangera du pain de son Dieu, des choses très saintes et des choses saintes;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Das Brot seines Gottes von dem Hochheiligen und von dem Heiligen mag er essen;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
vescetur tamen panibus qui offeruntur in sanctuario,