John Gill Commentary Leviticus 22

And the Lord spoke unto Moses
Immediately after he had spoken concerning blemishes in priests, and in a continued discourse signifying, that though priests that had blemishes might eat of the holy things, yet neither they, nor even such who had not any, if they were under legal impurity, might eat of them: saying ;
as follows.

Speak unto Aaron and to his sons: The priests; the children of Israel or the common people are not mentioned, as having no concern in the following laws about eating holy things.

That they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel; both from offering their lawful sacrifices, which was the business of their office when pure, and chiefly from eating that part of them which was their due, and was allowed them. Neither of these they were to do, particularly the latter, when they were in any uncleanness, as the following words show.

And that, they profane not my holy name [in those things] which they hallow unto me; which the children of Israel set apart and devoted to his service; which they would do, by eating their part of them when unclean, and thereby show little reverence to that holy name to which they were devoted; or which the priests themselves sanctified, by offering them to him; for Jarchi says, this takes in the holiness of the priests themselves; but the former seems best, and is confirmed in (Leviticus 22:3).

I [am] the Lord; who is holy himself, and whose holy things these are, and will be sanctified by those that draw nigh unto him.

Say unto them, whosoever [he be] of all your seed among your
generations
Whether male or female, in all succeeding ages, as long as the ceremonial law lasted; for females as well as males of the families of the priests ate of the holy things, provided they had no uncleanness on them, but if they had, they might not:

that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow
unto the Lord :
that approaches to any of the sacrifices which the children of Israel have devoted to the Lord, either to offer them, or even to touch them, and particularly to eat of them; and so Jarchi and Ben Gersom observe, that this going or drawing near is no other than eating; for touching only, a man was not guilty of cutting off:

having his uncleanness upon him ;
through a leprosy, or running issue, or touching any unclean person or thing, as the following words explain it:

that soul shall be cut off from my presence ;
excluded from the sanctuary, and the service of it, where the presence of God was; or be removed out of the world by death, either by the civil magistrate, or by the hand of God, by an immediate death, by the pestilence, as the Targum of Jonathan:

I [am] the Lord ;
that will avenge the breach of such a law, able to inflict such punishment, and faithful to accomplish every word of his, whether in a way of threatening or promise.

What man soever of the seed of Aaron [is] a leper A young, or an old man, as the Targum of Jonathan, and indeed man or woman; for the wives and daughters of the priests, if in this, and other circumstances following, might not eat of the holy things until cleansed, who otherwise might, see (Leviticus 13:2) (Numbers 18:13) ;

or has a running issue ; a gonorrhoea, whether man or woman, (Leviticus 15:2Leviticus 15:25) ;

he shall not eat of the holy things until he be clean ; he might eat of the tithes, but not of the wave breast, or heave shoulder:

and whoever touches any [that is] unclean [by] the dead ; not only that touched the dead, which made unclean, but that touched any person or thing that was made unclean by it:

or a man whose seed goes from him ; involuntarily when asleep, in a dream, and through a lustful imagination; see (Leviticus 15:16) .

Or whosoever touches any creeping thing, by which he may be
made unclean
Jarchi thinks this respects the measure or quantity of what is touched, as if but the quantity of a lentil or small pea, see (Leviticus 11:31–38); or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he
has;
as of a leper, a profluvious, or a dead man; Jarchi interprets it of the latter, and of the quantity which defiles, which is that of an olive; who also observes, that the phrase, "whatsoever uncleanness", includes touching a profluvious man or woman, a menstruous woman, and a new mother.