“Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.”
Meaning, that the Priests abstain from eating, so long as they are polluted.
“What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him; running: Heb. running of the reins”
By touching any dead thing, or being at burial of the dead. Cross references: : Lev. 15:2
“Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;”
Hebrew, according to all his uncleanness .
“There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.”
Which is not of the tribe of Levi. Some read, the servant which had his ear bored, and would not go free, Exod. 21:6 .
“If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger , she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. a stranger: Heb. a man a stranger”
Who is not of the Priest’s kindred.
“And 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.”
He shall give that and a fifth part over.
“Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them. suffer: or, lade themselves with the iniquity of trespass in their eating”
For if they did not offer for their error, the people by their example might commit the like offense.
“Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.”
Ye shall not receive any imperfect thing of a stranger, to make it the Lord’s offering: which he calleth the bread of the Lord.
“Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,”
For whosoever doth otherwise than God commandeth polluted his Name.