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Leviticus 22:13 Explained in Context

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Verse 13. But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

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Role in This Section

This verse restores a childless widowed or divorced daughter who returns to her father's house.

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  • Leviticus 22:10-16

Place Leviticus 22:13 inside 22:10-16. This verse restores a childless widowed or divorced daughter who returns to her father's house. Its surrounding procedure or case makes the larger point: A stranger or hired worker may not eat, a purchased household member may, a priest's daughter may lose or regain access through marriage and widowhood, and accidental eating requires repayment plus a fifth.

Why It Needs Context

Leviticus 22:13 restores a childless widowed or divorced daughter who returns to her father's house; reading it alone would sever that detail from the actors, category, and outcome in Leviticus 22:10-16.

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Read Leviticus 22:10-16 — Priestly-household membership governs access to holy food
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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

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Exact location: Leviticus 22:10-16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 22:10-16

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