10. Only a priest’s family can eat the holy food. A visitor staying with the priest or a hired worker must not eat any of the holy food.
11. But if the priest buys a person as a slave with his own money, that person may eat some of the holy things. Slaves who were born in the priest’s house may also eat some of the priest’s food.
12. A priest’s daughter might marry a man who is not a priest. If she does that, she cannot eat any of the holy offerings.
13. A priest’s daughter might become a widow, or she might be divorced. If she does not have any children to support her, and she goes back to her father’s house where she lived as a child, she can eat some of her father’s food. But only people from a priest’s family can eat this food.
14. “Whoever eats some of the holy food by mistake must give the priest the price of that food and add another one-fifth of the price as a fine.
15. “The Israelites will bring offerings to the Lord. These offerings become holy, so the priests must not let them be used in a wrong way.
16. They must not let the people eat these offerings. If they do, they are guilty of doing wrong, and they must pay for it. I am the Lord, the one who makes these offerings holy.”
17. The Lord God said to Moses,