Levítico 22:16

16 causándoles así sufrir castigo por la culpa al comer sus cosas sagradas; porque yo soy el SEÑOR que los santifico."

Levítico 22:16 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 22:16

Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass
The punishment of sin: either the strangers, when they eat their holy things;
the holy things belonging to the priests, which they permitting them to do, suffer them to be liable to the punishment incurred thereby, or else the priests themselves; so the Septuagint version renders the word "themselves"; and in like manner Jarchi interprets it; and then the sense may be, according to the Targums of Jonathan and Onkelos, that the priests shall bear the punishment of their sins,

``when they shall eat the holy things in uncleanness,''

which is what is forbidden them in the former part of the chapter; but this seems to be too remote; rather the former sense is best: for I the Lord do sanctify them;
both the priests, to whom the holy things belong, and the holy things for their use, and the use of their families, and them only.

Levítico 22:16 In-Context

14 "Y si un hombre come inadvertidamente cosa sagrada, entonces añadirá a ella una quinta parte y restituirá la cosa sagrada al sacerdote.

15 "No profanarán las cosas sagradas que los hijos de Israel ofrecen al SEÑOR,

16 causándoles así sufrir castigo por la culpa al comer sus cosas sagradas; porque yo soy el SEÑOR que los santifico."

17 Y el SEÑOR habló a Moisés, diciendo:

18 Habla a Aarón y a sus hijos y a todos los hijos de Israel, y diles: "Cualquier hombre de la casa de Israel o de los forasteros en Israel, que presente su ofrenda, ya sea de sus ofrendas votivas o de sus ofrendas voluntarias, las cuales presenta al SEÑOR como holocausto,