Leviticus 22
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Leviticus 22:10-16

10“ ‘No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired worker eat it.

11But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if slaves are born in his household, they may eat his food.

12If a priest’s daughter marries anyone other than a priest, she may not eat any of the sacred contributions.

13But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father’s household as in her youth, she may eat her father’s food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat it.

14“ ‘Anyone who eats a sacred offering by mistake must make restitution to the priest for the offering and add a fifth of the value to it.

15The priests must not desecrate the sacred offerings the Israelites present to the Lord

16by allowing them to eat the sacred offerings and so bring upon them guilt requiring payment. I am the Lord, who makes them holy.’ ”

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