The Priests. (Their revenues.) Certain offerings are to be the perquisites of the priests, also as they are the representatives of the Deity the best of the first-fruits. Formerly the sin-offering and the guilt-offering had been paid to them in money (2 Kings 12:16). The welfare of the people would depend upon their fidelity to the claims of the priests. The restrictions in Ezekiel 44:31 had formerly applied to all the people (Exodus 22:31). (In Ezekiel 44:28 for an read no.)
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Ezekiel 44:28-31
28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30 And the firstd of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.