Leviticus 21:22 permits a priest with a physical defect to eat holy food, contrasting with 22:4 which bars unclean priests — different disqualifications.

Leviticus 6:25-29 states the sin offering is most holy and only priests can eat it — this is the food from which an unclean priest is excluded.

Leviticus 13:2 defines the skin condition ('leprosy') that makes a priest unclean and barred from holy food in 22:4.

Leviticus 13:3 provides a diagnostic detail for leprosy — white hair and deeper skin — directly expanding what uncleanness looks like.

Leviticus 13:44-46 states the leper is unclean and must live apart, reinforcing why such a priest cannot eat holy things.

Leviticus 14:2-32 details the purification ceremony for the skin disease that disqualifies a priest from eating holy offerings in Leviticus 22:4.

Leviticus 15:2 defines a discharge ('running issue') that causes uncleanness, directly explaining that condition in 22:4.

Leviticus 15:3 specifies when a discharge is unclean (whether it flows or is stopped), clarifying the uncleanness mentioned in 22:4.

Leviticus 15:13-15 prescribes the purification ritual for the bodily discharge mentioned in Leviticus 22:4 as a cause of uncleanness.

Leviticus 15:16 defines the uncleanness from an emission of semen — the same impurity referenced in Leviticus 22:4 as disqualifying a priest from holy food.

Leviticus 7:21 similarly prohibits eating sacred meat while unclean, reinforcing the same principle applied to priests in Leviticus 22:4.

Like 2:3, Leviticus 2:10 also calls the grain offering most holy, reinforcing what holy food the unclean priest cannot eat.

Leviticus 21:1 forbids priests from becoming unclean by a corpse, the same impurity that in Leviticus 22:4 disqualifies them from holy offerings.

Leviticus 2:3 shows the grain offering is most holy and belongs to priests — these are the holy things unclean priests are barred from eating.

Leviticus 5:3 addresses the guilt incurred by touching uncleanness — the same uncleanness that in Leviticus 22:4 bars priests from sacred offerings.

Numbers 19:11-16 describes the purification ritual for corpse uncleanness, the impurity that disqualifies a priest from holy offerings in Leviticus 22:4.

Numbers 18:9 designates the holy gifts as most holy for priests, identifying the sacred food an unclean priest is forbidden to eat.

Numbers 18:19 establishes the perpetual right of priests to holy offerings, the same offerings that Leviticus 22:4 restricts for unclean priests.