When the sun goes down, he will be clean, and after that he may eat the sacred offerings, for they are his food. The sunset resolution of the contact-impurity and the restored access to the sacred food — because they are his food — communicates the priestly provision and the priestly right: the sacred food belongs to the priests, and after the proper purification period the priests can claim what is theirs. The his food designation communicates that the sacred food is not a privilege that must be re-earned after impurity but a right that is temporarily suspended during the impurity period.

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