Thematic Bible: For the sustenance of their families

“I give to you and to your sons and daughters all the holy contributions that the Israelites present to the Lord as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the Lord for you as well as your offspring.”

Verse Concepts

Covenant, God's with Israel's priestsGod, The EternalOffspringThe Eternal Covenant

Food For Priests DefinedSournessTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiGod’s Covenant With The Levites

“The contribution of their gifts also belongs to you. I have given all the Israelites’ presentation offerings to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your house may eat it.

Verse Concepts

daughtersWave OfferingsPerpetual Statutes

Animal Sacrifices, Wave OfferingPermitted To Eat Offerings

But if a priest purchases someone with his money, that person may eat it, and those born in his house may eat his food. If the priest's daughter is married to a man outside a priest's family, she is not to eat from the holy contributions. But if the priest's daughter becomes widowed or divorced, has no children, and returns to her father's house as in her youth, she may share her father's food. But no outsider may share it.