Leviticus 10:10-15

This passage may well have an immediate relation to the preceding context, as meaning that perfect sobriety was required in order to enable them to discriminate between -holy" and -common" and to give right Torah. Others have thought that the words in the last clause of Leviticus 10:11 -the Lord hath spoken" shew that it is not connected with Leviticus 10:8, and that Leviticus 10:9 seems marked off by its last clause from what follows. Leviticus 10:10 would form an appropriate introduction to chs. 11 15.

Driver and White (Haupt's SBOT., ad loc.) think that something may have fallen out here.

(5) The law of eating the holy things(12 15)

The reference is to the Meal-Offering and Peace-Offering of Leviticus 9:17-18. The remainder of the Meal-Offering, after the handful therefrom had been burnt, belonged to the priests, Leviticus 2:2-3; Leviticus 6:16-18. Being most holy, it was eaten only by priests in a holy place here specified as -beside the altar." Cp. Leviticus 6:16; Leviticus 6:26; -in the court of the tent of meeting." The priestly portions of the Peace-Offering might be eaten by the families of the priests in a clean place, of course only by those who were ritually clean (Leviticus 7:20-21). The Sin-Offering when eaten, being most holy, was treated as the Meal-Offering. See Leviticus 6:24-29.