Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
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Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
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Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
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Every male among the priests may eat thereof; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
Cross-references (4)
Passages linked to Leviticus 7:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 6:29 Every male among the priests shall eat of it. It is most holy.
- Leviticus 2:3 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
- Numbers 18:9-10 This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
- Leviticus 6:16-18 That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting. It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as are the sin offering and the trespass offering. Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’ ”
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Every male supposing him not to have any uncleanness…
Every male supposing him not to have any uncleanness upon him, Lev 7:20, or other impediment.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Every male among the priests shall eat thereof,.... Of…
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof,.... Of the flesh of it, after the fat was taken off and burnt, the rest belonged to the priests and their sons, and to them only, not to their wives and daughters:
it shall be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle, in some apartment in it, for that purpose, as afterwards in the temple; it was not to be carried home to their houses, for all in the family to partake of, only the priests and their sons were to eat of it:
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it is most holy; and therefore none but such who were devoted to holy services might eat of it; only sanctified persons, true believers, who are made priests unto God, have a right to eat of the altar Christ, or, can eat his flesh in a spiritual sense, and feed upon him by faith, and receive nourishment from him, Heb 13:10.
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