Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Leviticus 22:13-17 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

13. A priest’s daughter might become a widow, or she might be divorced. If she does not have any children to support her, and she goes back to her father’s house where she lived as a child, she can eat some of her father’s food. But only people from a priest’s family can eat this food.

14. “Whoever eats some of the holy food by mistake must give the priest the price of that food and add another one-fifth of the price as a fine.

15. “The Israelites will bring offerings to the Lord. These offerings become holy, so the priests must not let them be used in a wrong way.

16. They must not let the people eat these offerings. If they do, they are guilty of doing wrong, and they must pay for it. I am the Lord, the one who makes these offerings holy.”

17. The Lord God said to Moses,