Trespass-offerings for various sins. Leviticus 5:1-13
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
OUT LINE OF THE BOOK LEVITICUS
A Manual of Worship at the Tabernacle
1.DIRECTIONS REGARDING THE OFFERING OF SACRIFICES, Leviticus 1-7
1.The Five Offerings, Leviticus 1:1-6:7
Trespass, Leviticus 5:1-6:7
6. How did the trespass-offering differ from the sin-offering?
OFFERINGS FOR VARIOUS SINS
‘If anyone sins after he hears a public adjuration (solemn command to testify) when he is a witness, whether he has seen or [otherwise] known [something]–if he fails to report it, then he will bear his guilt and be held responsible.
Or if someone touches any [ceremonially] unclean thing–whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal or the carcass of an unclean domestic animal or the carcass of unclean creeping things–even if he is unaware of it, he has become unclean, and he will be guilty.
Or if he touches human uncleanness–whatever kind it may be–and he becomes unclean, but he is unaware of it, when he recognizes it, he will be guilty.
Or if anyone swears [an oath] thoughtlessly or impulsively aloud that he will do either evil or good, in whatever manner a person may speak thoughtlessly or impulsively with an oath, but he is unaware of it, when he recognizes it, he will be guilty in one of these. [Mar_6:23]
So it shall be when a person is guilty in one of these, that he shall confess the sin he has committed.
He shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin.
‘But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons as his guilt offering for his sin to the LORD, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.
He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering, and shall nip its head at the front of its neck, but shall not sever it [completely].
He shall also sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.
The second [bird] he shall prepare as a burnt offering, according to the ordinance. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for the sin which he has committed, and it will be forgiven him.
‘But if he cannot afford to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for his sin the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering; he shall not put [olive] oil or incense on it, for it is a sin offering.
He shall bring it to the priest, who shall take a handful of it as a memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar, with the offerings by fire to the LORD; it is a sin offering.
In this way the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in one of these things, and it will be forgiven him; then the rest shall be for the priest, like the grain offering.'”
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Leviticus 5:1-13
TRESPASS-OFFERINGS FOR VARIOUS SINS
The sin-offering was closely resembled by the trespass-offering; but they differed in this: that the former was meant to fix the thought of the sinner rather on the evil of his character, and that there was within him a root of bitterness and a poisonous fountain. But the latter deals with the acts of transgression to which this evil character gives rise, and more especially with the harm which it inflicts on others. We need to confess our trespasses as often as we eat our daily bread; and it is very reassuring that, through the blood of Jesus, God forgives all our trespasses. See Col_2:13.
It is very touching to notice the provision made for the very poor. Mary, the mother of our Lord, had to content herself with the two pigeons or turtle doves of Lev_5:11. But none of us are exempted. We cannot come to the close of any day without kneeling to confess our sins and asking that we may be sprinkled from an evil conscience.
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