Neville Goddard on Leviticus 22:10-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Leviticus 22 in context

Scripture Focus

10There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

11But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.

12If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

13But 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.

14And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.

15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;

16Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

Leviticus 22:10-16

Biblical Context

The verses establish who may eat of the holy offerings and under what conditions, guarding holiness with boundaries and accountability. They imply that sacred provisions reflect the priestly order and its inner discipline.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the letter orders your inner banquet. The strangers are not people, but states of consciousness that would feast on your sacred meat and leave you diminished. The priest's house—the part of you trained to honor the inner covenant—eats of the holy thing because it has become habitual, integrated, familiar. When the priest's daughter marries a stranger, the image warns that foreign loyalties—unresolved desires—do not belong at the offering; keep the inner altar pure. Yet when the daughter returns as widow or divorcee with no child, she may eat again in her father's house, symbolizing grace toward a reset of attention. If you eat unwittingly, you owe a fifth part back to the priest—make the correction in your belief, reassigning misused energy to the sacred. The essential message: do not profane the holy; guard it with intention, for the I AM sanctifies your inner temple. Practice this awareness now: assume the role of the priest within, and consecrate your thoughts by choosing only what sustains your spiritual feast.

Practice This Now

Assume the role of the priest in your inner temple and declare that only what nourishes the sacred within may partake of your consciousness. Feel it real by quietly revising a distracting thought as though returning it to the altar, then rest in the I AM that sanctifies.