Leviticus 22:13 (WEB)
But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread; but no stranger shall eat any of it.
Fathers and councils · 3
Jerome
“If a virgin and a widow are on the same level, how is it that one is taken, the other rejected?And the widow of a priest is bidden abide in the house of her father, and not to contract a second marriage.If the sister of a priest dies in virginity, just as…” — editor's note: The reference is, probably, to Levit. xxii. 13. But the second marriage is not there prohibited, and in the ideal polity of Ezekiel (xliv. 22) a priest might…
Read the whole comment“If on the other hand they take other husbands they are to be kept apart both from their father and from the sacrifices and are to be counted as strangers.” — editor's note: Lev. xxii. 12, 13.
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Tertullian
“The daughter also of a priest it bids, if widowed or repudiated, if she have had no seed, to return into her father’s home and be nourished from his bread.” — editor's note: Lev. xxii. 13, where there is no command to her to return, in the Eng. ver.: in the LXX. there is.
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