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Leviticus 21:22 KJV
Leviticus · chapter 21 · verse 22
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.Leviticus 21:22 · King James Version
Leviticus 21:22 in context
20Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
21No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
23Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
24And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- breadlechemfood , especially bread, or grainH3899 →
- holyqôdesha sacred place or thingH6944 →
- eatʼâkalto eatH398 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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The priesthood being confined to one particular family, and entailed upon all the male issue of that family throughout their generations, it was very likely that some or other in after-ages that were born to the priesthood would have natural blemishes and deformities: the honour of the priesthood would not secure them…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 16-24