Leviticus 22 · Verse 12

Leviticus 22:12

If the priest’s daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
Leviticus 22:12, King James Version

Leviticus 22:12 in other translations

BSBIf the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.
WEBIf a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
ASVAnd if a priest’s daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.
YLT‘And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's, --she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat;
DARBYAnd a priest's daughter who is married to a stranger may not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.
BBEAnd if the daughter of a priest is married to an outside person she may not take of the holy things which are lifted up as offerings.
WebsterIf the priest's daughter also shall be married to a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

What does Leviticus 22:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 22:10-13

Le 22:10-16. Who of the Priests' House May Eat of Them. 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…

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Leviticus 22:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּבַת\־u.vat-and a daughter ofH1323
כֹּהֵ֔ןko.Hena priestH3548
כִּ֥יkiifH3588
תִהְיֶ֖הtih.Yehshe will belongH1961
לְאִ֣ישׁle.'Ishto a manH376
זָ֑רZarstrangeH2114
הִ֕ואhi'sheH1931
בִּתְרוּמַ֥תbit.ru.Matin [the] contribution ofH8641
הַקֳּדָשִׁ֖יםha.ko.da.Shimthe holy thingsH6944
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
תֹאכֵֽל\׃to.Khelshe will eatH398

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

Cross references for Leviticus 22:12

  • Leviticus 21:3

    And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.

  • Isaiah 40:13

    Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
a stranger. Heb. a man, a stranger.
21:3; Isa 40:13; *marg:

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Context

  • Leviticus 22:11

    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.

  • Leviticus 22:12

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

  • Leviticus 22:13

    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.

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Leviticus 22:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Empero la hija del sacerdote, cuando se casare con varón extraño, ella no comerá de la ofrenda de las cosas sagradas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et une fille de sacrificateur, si elle est mariée à un étranger, ne mangera pas des offrandes élevées des choses saintes.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und wenn die Tochter eines Priesters das Weib eines fremden Mannes wird, so soll sie nicht von dem Hebopfer der heiligen Dinge essen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Si filia sacerdotis cuilibet ex populo nupta fuerit, de his quæ sanctificata sunt, et de primitiis non vescetur.