“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.”
Anyone who eats a sacred offering by mistake must make restitution to the priest for the offering and add a fifth of the value to it. The inadvertent eating of the sacred food by someone not entitled to it — the guilt offering principle of Leviticus 5:14–16 applied to the priestly food. The restitution plus twenty percent communicates that the inadvertent violation of the sacred food boundary requires the same reparation as the inadvertent violation of the sacred things in general. The sacred food that belongs to the priestly household is as much a sacred thing as any offering on the altar.
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