They are to eat these offerings by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no one else may eat them, because they are sacred. The ordination offerings that are eaten are restricted to Aaron and his sons: no outsider may eat them because they are sacred. The holiness of the ordination meal requires that only those who have been consecrated by the ordination ceremony share in it. The restricted meal of the ordination is the prototype of the restricted table of Exodus 12:43 (no foreigner may eat the Passover) and ultimately of the covenantal restriction on the Lord's Supper. The table of atonement is set for those who have received the atonement it celebrates.

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