Unto a stranger, i.e. to one of another family, who is no priest. Yet the priest's wife, though of another family, might eat. The reason of which difference is, because the with passeth into the name, state, and privileges of her husband, from whom the family is denominated and esteemed.
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Leviticus 22:12
12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger,b she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.