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Leviticus 22:9-11
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9 They shall keep my charge so that they will not bear the punishment in this matter and die(A) for their profanation. I am the Lord who makes them holy.

10 Neither an unauthorized person nor a priest’s tenant or laborer may eat of any sacred offering.(B) 11 But a slave[a] whom a priest acquires by purchase or who is born in his house may eat of his food.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:11 Slave: in contrast to the tenant or hired worker of v. 10, the slave, who is by definition a foreigner, is part of the priest’s household and therefore may eat of sacrifices.
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