The narrator creates a wordplay between the surviving (nôṯārîm
) sons and the remaining (nôṯěrěṯ
) loyalty offering. By eating the remaining loyalty offering, the priests expressed their continued loyalty to the Lord rather than their family.
The narrator creates a wordplay between the surviving (nôṯārîm
) sons and the remaining (nôṯěrěṯ
) loyalty offering. By eating the remaining loyalty offering, the priests expressed their continued loyalty to the Lord rather than their family.
12 Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his surviving sons: “Take the grain offering that is left of the LORD’s food offerings, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.