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._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

This shows how completely a purchased bondsman was incorporated into the household. See Exodus 21:2, note; Exodus 21:20, note....

EXPOSITION This chapter, which is a continuation of Leviticus 21:1, (1) commands that the ceremonially defiled priest shall not officiate or partake of the sacrificial offerings; (2) declares who may and who may not partake of the priests' portions of the sacrifices; (3) orders that every sacrificial victim be unblemished. LEVITICUS 22:1 In the previous chapter, the priests have been commanded to avoid occasions of ceremonial defilement, but there are times in which they must be unclean. At these times they are here instructed that they must abstain from their priestly functions, and not even eat of the priests' portions until they have been cleansed. The command to Aaron and to

BUT IF THE PRIEST BUY [ANY] SOUL WITH HIS MONEY, HE SHALL EAT OF IT,.... Whether any of his own nation, who sometimes, when become poor, were obliged to sell themselves; or a stranger, as the Targum of Jonathan; one of another nation, a Canaanitish servant, as Jarchi. Now these being his own purchase, and always to abide with him, became part of his family, and so might eat of the provisions of it; and it is from hence the Jews gather, as Jarchi and Gersom, that his wife might eat of the holy things, because bought with his money; but there is a better reason to be given for that, for of whatever family she was before, whether of the priests or not, by marriage she became a part, yea, a principal of his family, being one flesh with him, bearing the same name, and entitled to all the privileges of his house. This is extended by some Jewish writers l to cattle, for by any soul they underst...

CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Care to be exercised in holy things (Leviticus 22:1)_ 2. Care in the enforcement of the law of offerings (Leviticus 22:17) Uncleanness such as mentioned in the first part of the chapter prohibited the partaking of holy things. Strangers who did not belong to the priestly house and even the married daughter of the priest, not living in the priestly household, were not permitted to eat of the offering of the holy things. Holy things have to be used in a reverent and holy way. The same principle holds good in the New Testament. We may well think here of the Lord's table. Read 1 Corinthians 11:23. Coming to the Lord's table to remember Him requires self-judg

RULES FOR PRIESTS-' FAMILIES, ETC. A priest's slave is a member of his family, and may eat of the dues; a hired servant or a guest is not. Nor is a married daughter, unless she returns, a childless widow, to her father's house. Infringement by a layman of the rules for holy things means a guilt offering (Leviticus 5:15), _i.e._ restoration of an equally valuable object plus one-fifth....

SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh_ (App-13). Here put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), for "any person", i.e.. heathen slave. HE. the slave so bought. Emphatic. MEAT. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Species), for any kind of food. App-6....

IF THE PRIEST BUY ANY SOUL— See chap. Leviticus 25:39; Leviticus 25:44. The word _stranger,_ in the next verse, signifies as in the 10th verse, one who is not of the priest's family....

THE RIGHTS OF THE PRIEST'S FAMILY TO THE HOLY THINGS 22:11-16 TEXT 22:11-16 11 But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread. 12 And if a priest's daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things. 13 But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and be returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread: but there shall no stranger eat thereof. 14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give unto the priest the holy thing. 15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto Jehovah, 16 and s_o_ cause them to bear the iniquity that bringeth guilt, when they eat their holy...

22:11 one (d-7) Lit. 'a soul of purchase.'...