Every grain offering of a priest shall be burned completely; it must not be eaten. The principle stated in the previous verse is made explicit as a rule: every grain offering of a priest is entirely burned. The priest who eats the congregation's grain offerings cannot eat his own grain offering. The consistent principle of the offering system is that the one who benefits cannot be the same one who makes the offering: the offerer's grain goes to the priests; the priest's grain goes entirely to God. The self-denying character of the priestly offering communicates the priestly vocation: the priest serves others' approach to God; his own approach to God requires complete self-gift.

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