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Leviticus 22:12-18 New Living Translation (NLT)

12. If a priest’s daughter marries someone outside the priestly family, she may no longer eat the sacred offerings.

13. But if she becomes a widow or is divorced and has no children to support her, and she returns to live in her father’s home as in her youth, she may eat her father’s food again. Otherwise, no one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offerings.

14. “Any such person who eats the sacred offerings without realizing it must pay the priest for the amount eaten, plus an additional 20 percent.

15. The priests must not let the Israelites defile the sacred offerings brought to the lord

16. by allowing unauthorized people to eat them. This would bring guilt upon them and require them to pay compensation. I am the lord who makes them holy.”

17. And the lord said to Moses,

18. “Give Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites these instructions, which apply both to native Israelites and to the foreigners living among you.“If you present a gift as a burnt offering to the lord, whether it is to fulfill a vow or is a voluntary offering,

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