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Leviticus 22:15

Listen to Leviticus 22:15
15 and they do not pollute the holy things of the sons of Israel -- that which they lift up to Jehovah,

Leviticus 22:15 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 22:15

And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of
Israel, which they offer unto the Lord.
] By causing or suffering strangers to eat of them; so Jarchi, referring the words to the priests, who should be careful that strangers ate not of sacred things; or by the strangers themselves eating them, whereby they were profaned and used as common things.

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Leviticus 22:15 In-Context

13 and a priest's daughter, when she is a widow, or cast out, and hath no seed, and hath turned back unto the house of her father, as [in] her youth, of her father's bread she doth eat; but no stranger doth eat of it.
14 `And when a man doth eat of a holy thing through ignorance, then he hath added its fifth part to it, and hath given [it] to the priest, with the holy thing;
15 and they do not pollute the holy things of the sons of Israel -- that which they lift up to Jehovah,
16 nor have caused them to bear the iniquity of the guilt-offering in their eating their holy things; for I [am] Jehovah, sanctifying them.'
17 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
Young's Literal Translation is in the public domain.

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