Leviticus 22:9-11

Common English Bible

⁹ The priests must keep my requirement so that they don’t become liable to punishment and die for having made it impure.^[a] I am the Lord, who makes them holy.

Unauthorized eating

¹⁰ No layperson is allowed to eat the holy offerings. No foreign guest or hired laborer of a priest can eat it. ¹¹ But if a priest purchases a servant, that person can eat it, and servants born into the priest’s household can also eat his food.