Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Leviticus 22:16 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 16. 16Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
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Quick Meaning
This verse protects offerers from guilt caused by mishandling the gifts.
Read It With
- Leviticus 22:10-16
Start with 22:10-16 rather than Leviticus 22:16 alone. In that complete movement, this verse protects offerers from guilt caused by mishandling the gifts. The unit's controlling claim is: 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 This Verse Appears Here
This verse protects offerers from guilt caused by mishandling the gifts. Its place in Leviticus 22:10-16 matters because leviticus places this unit within the holy-food and acceptable-offering sequence, which distinguishes temporary priestly status, household access, accidental eating, animal criteria, and thanksgiving. Its particular contribution is: 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.
What Remains True
Protects offerers from guilt caused by mishandling the gifts. Within Leviticus 22:10-16, this contributes to the larger claim that 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.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 22:16, keep the verse inside Leviticus 22:10-16. Hold this boundary: Household access rules expose slavery and patriarchal dependence; they are not a Christian communion policy or approval of ownership. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 22:10-16 — Priestly-household membership governs access to holy foodSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 22:10-16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 22:10-16
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2025-12-31
Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 22:10-16
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