10 "No layperson may eat anything set apart as holy. Nor may a priest's guest or his hired hand eat anything holy. 11 But if a priest buys a slave, the slave may eat of it; also the slaves born in his house may eat his food. 12 If a priest's daughter marries a layperson, she may no longer eat from the holy contributions. 13 But if the priest's daughter is widowed or divorced and without children and returns to her father's household as before, she may eat of her father's food. But no layperson may eat of it. 14 "If anyone eats from a holy offering accidentally, he must give back the holy offering to the priest and add twenty percent to it. 15 "The priests must not treat with irreverence the holy offerings of the Israelites that they contribute to God 16 lest they desecrate themselves and make themselves guilty when they eat the holy offerings. I am God who makes them holy."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 22:10-16
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Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his ordinances, and commandments. Let us beware of hypocrisy, and examine ourselves concerning our sinful defilements, seeking to be purified from them in the blood of Christ, and by his sanctifying Spirit. Whoever attempts to expiate his own sin, or draws near in the pride of self-righteousness, puts as great an affront on Christ, as he who comes to the Lord's table from the gratification of sinful lusts. Nor can the minister who loves the souls of the people, suffer them to continue in this dangerous delusion. He must call upon them, not only to repent of their sins, and forsake them; but to put their whole trust in the atonement of Christ, by faith in his name, for pardon and acceptance with God; thus only will the Lord make them holy, as his own people.