“But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.”
But if a priest's daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, and she has no children and returns to live in her father's household as in her youth, she may eat her father's food. No outsider, however, may eat it. The widow or divorced daughter with no children who returns to the priestly father's household regains her access to the sacred food. The return to the priestly household restores the access that marriage to a non-priest removed. The no-children condition communicates that the children of a non-priestly marriage would not belong to the priestly household even if the mother returned.
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