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(3.) The males only must eat of it, Le 6:18. Of the less holy things, as the first-fruits and tithes, and the shoulder and breasts of the peace-offerings, the daughters of the priests might eat, for they might be carried out of the court; but this was of the most holy things, which being to be eaten only in the tabernacle, the sons of Aaron only might eat of it.
(4.) The priests only that were clean might eat of it: Every one that toucheth them shall be holy, Le 6:18. Holy things for holy persons. Some read it, Every thing that toucheth it shall be holy: Al the furniture of the table on which these holy things were eaten must be appropriated to that use only, and never after used as common things.
18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be
a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the
Lord made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
19 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 20 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer
unto the Lord in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baked, thou shalt
bring it in: and the baked pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savor unto the Lord.
22 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it:
it is a statute for ever unto the Lord; it shall be wholly burnt.
As to the consecration meat-offering, which was offered for the priests themselves, it was to be wholly burnt, and none of it eaten, Le 6:23. It comes in here as an exception to the foregoing law. It should seem that this law concerning the meat-offering of initiation did not only oblige the high priest to offer it, and on that day only that he was anointed, and so for his successors in the day they were anointed; but the Jewish writers say that by this law every priest, on the day he first entered upon his ministry, was bound to offer this