No one outside a priest's family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired worker eat it. The access restrictions for the sacred food beyond the ritual impurity conditions: only the priestly family may eat the sacred offerings. The guest of a priest and the hired worker — people who are in the priestly household but not of the priestly family — are excluded. The sacred food is for the priestly family, not for every person who happens to be associated with the priestly household. The family-only restriction protects the priestly food's sacred character as the provision for the covenant mediators.

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