Leviticus 22:16

16 or make themselves liable to punishment requiring compensation by eating their own holy offerings. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.

Leviticus 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.

Leviticus 22:16 In-Context

14 If someone eats a holy offering unintentionally, they must provide the priest with an equal item, plus one-fifth.

15 The Israelites must not make the holy offerings impure that they offer up to the LORD

16 or make themselves liable to punishment requiring compensation by eating their own holy offerings. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.

17 The LORD said to Moses:

18 Tell Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites: Whenever someone from Israel's house or from the immigrants in Israel presents their offering to the LORD as an entirely burned offering—whether it is payment for a solemn promise or a spontaneous gift—