Halakhah for Sotah 45:2
וכל הנשואות לכהנים מנחותיהן נשרפות בת ישראל שנשאת לכהן מנחתה נשרפת וכהנת שנשאת לישראל מנחתה נאכלת
THE MEAL-OFFERING OF THE DAUGHTER OF AN ISRAELITE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A non-priest. ');"><sup>3</sup></span> WHO IS MARRIED TO A PRIEST IS DESTROYED. BUT THE MEAL-OFFERING OF A PRIEST'S DAUGHTER WHO IS MARRIED TO AN ISRAELITE IS EATEN. WHAT [DIFFERENCES ARE THERE IN LAW] BETWEEN A PRIEST AND A PRIEST'S DAUGHTER? THE MEAL-OFFERING OF A PRIEST'S DAUGHTER IS EATEN BUT THE MEAL-OFFERING OF A PRIEST IS NOT EATEN.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Lev. VI, 16. ');"><sup>4</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
From the laws of the commandment is that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Menachot 72b) that all of the meal-offerings that were offered on the altar were skimmed - and the skimming was completely incinerated on the altar, and the rest was eaten by the priests - except for the meal offering of the males of the priesthood, which ia not skimmed, as it is stated (Leviticus 6:16), "And every meal-offering of a priest shall be whole; it shall not be eaten." It comes out that the inauguratory meal-offerings and the griddled ones, and a priest that brought a sinner's meal-offering or a voluntary meal-offering - [all these offerings] were burnt on the altar and not skimmed. The meal-offering of a priestess (Sotah 23a) is skimmed and its remnants are eaten; as we say, it is specifically a priest [that is stated by the Torah], and not a priestess. And the rest of its details are elucidated in Menachot (see Mishneh Torah, Laws of Sacrificial Procedure 10).
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