22:12,13
A daughter married someone who was not a priest, then she was not allowed to eat the sacred food. This is because she has left her father and mother and cleaved to her husband. So she is no longer part of a priestly family. However, if she was widowed or divorced, and had no children, then she could return home and partake of the food. So again we see a rather liberal attitude. The reason for the bit about her not having children was that if she had children then a new family unit had been established, which was not part of the priesthood. 22:13 finishes with a reminder that no “unauthorised person” may eat it.
22:14
Someone, who was not a priest, might inadvertently eat some of the food. It is not clear how this could happen, but we will leave that aside. If this did happen, then the person had to make restitution, returning the value of the food plus a fifth.
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