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The Book of Leviticus, Chapter 22, Verse 10

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They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
King James Version
There shall no stranger eat [of] the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat [of] the holy thing.
American Standard Version
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest's, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
New English Translation
“‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,
World English Bible
"'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
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But if the priest buy [any] soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
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If the priest's daughter also be [married] unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
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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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And if a man eat [of] the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth [part] thereof unto it, and shall give [it] unto the priest with the holy thing.
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And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
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Or 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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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever [he be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;
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[Ye shall offer] at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
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[But] whatsoever hath a blemish, [that] shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.