Thematic Bible: For the sustenance of their families


Thematic Bible



All the offerings of the holy gifts, which the sons of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a perpetual allotment. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the Lord to you and your descendants with you.” Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with Israel's priestsGod, The EternalOffspringThe Eternal CovenantFood For Priests DefinedSournessTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiGod’s Covenant With The Levites

This also is yours, the offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel; I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual allotment. Everyone of your household who is clean may eat it. Verse ConceptsdaughtersWave OfferingsPerpetual StatutesAnimal Sacrifices, Wave OfferingPermitted To Eat Offerings

'But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, that one may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his food. 'If a priest's daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the gifts. 'But if a priest's daughter becomes a widow or divorced, and has no child and returns to her father's house as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's food; but no layman shall eat of it.