Persons who could not eat the sacred offerings 22:10-16

Another list of seven laws guarded the offerings. No non-priest could eat the sacrifices the priests ate except those who had become members of the priests' households. The principle appears at the beginning and at the end of the list (vv. 10, 13b) with a brief statement regarding restitution for accidentally eating an offering following (vv. 14-16). All these regulations guarded the holiness of God by treating the people and things most closely associated with Him as special.