Leviticus 5
Leviticus 5:1 “If any throat fails by hearing a public call to testify, and he is a witness, either seeing or coming to know the matter, yet does not speak, he will be responsible for his violation;
Leviticus 5:2 or if any throat touches a contaminated thing, whether a carcass of a contaminated wild animal or a carcass of contaminated livestock or a carcass of contaminated swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become contaminated, and he realizes his offence;
Leviticus 5:3 or if he touches human contamination, of whatever sort the contamination may be with which one becomes contaminated, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his offence;
Leviticus 5:4 or if any throat utters with his lips an overconfident oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of overconfident oath that a human swears, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his offence in any of these;
Leviticus 5:5 when he realizes his offence in any of these and confesses the failure,
Leviticus 5:6 he will bring to Yahveh as his reparation for the failure, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a failure offering. And the priest will provide reconciliation for him for his mistake.
Leviticus 5:7 “But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he will bring to Yahveh as his reparation for the failure two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a failure offering and the other for an ascending offering.
Leviticus 5:8 He will bring them to the priest, who will offer first the one for the failure offering. He will wring its head from its neck but will not divide it completely,
Leviticus 5:9 and he will spritz some of the blood of the failure offering on the wall of the altar, while the remainder of the blood will be pressed out at the base of the altar; it is a failure offering.
Leviticus 5:10 Then he will offer the second for an ascending offering according to the judgment.[1] And the priest will provide reconciliation for him for the failure, and he will be forgiven.
Leviticus 5:11 “But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he will bring as his offering for the failure a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a failure offering. He will put no oil on it and will put no frankincense on it, because it is a failure offering.
Leviticus 5:12 And he will bring it to the priest, and the priest will take a handful of it as its reminiscence and burn this on the altar, on Yahveh’s fire offerings; it is a failure offering.
Leviticus 5:13 Thus the priest will provide reconciliation for him for the failure in any one of these things, and he will be forgiven. And the remainder will be for the priest, as in the tribute offering.”
Leviticus 5:14 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Leviticus 5:15 “If any throat commits an act of betrayal and fails inadvertently in any of the sacred things of Yahveh, he will bring to Yahveh as his reparation, a perfect ram out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a reparation offering.
Leviticus 5:16 He will also make reparation for his failure in the sacred thing and will add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest will provide reconciliation for him with the ram of the reparation offering, and he will be forgiven.
Leviticus 5:17 “If any throat fails, doing any of the things that by Yahveh’s commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his offence, he will be responsible for his violation.
Leviticus 5:18 He will bring to the priest a perfect ram out of the flock, or its equivalent for a reparation offering, and the priest will provide reconciliation for him for the unintentional failure, and he will be forgiven.
Leviticus 5:19 It is a reparation offering; he has indeed committed an offence in Yahveh’s sight.”
[1] מִשְׁפָּט = judgment. Leviticus 5:10; 9:16; 18:4, 5, 26; 19:15, 35, 37; 20:22; 24:22; 25:18; 26:15, 43, 46.
Leviticus 5 quotes:
“The sins detailed in Leviticus 5:14—19 all required restitution. The text does not specifically tell us why, but each one appears to involve an offense either against a “holy thing of the Lord” or against the property of another person. Either way, and regardless of whether the offense was intentional or accidental, the damage was done and had to be dealt with.”
Holiness unto God : Leviticus. Nelson Impact, 2006. p. 18.
“The worth of the sacrifices to be offered ran the scale from costly to relatively inexpensive—anyone who desired to do so could afford such an offering (Leviticus 5:7).”
March, W. Eugene. Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers. Abingdon Press, 2012. p, 52.
“In Leviticus 5 Moses discussed a new aspect in the worship of God called the trespass offering. Here the worshiper -has trespassed some revealed commandment of God. But since there is more about God that we do not know than what we do know, it is possible that we could offend Him unwittingly. There are, however, some things about God that He has revealed. Here again Leviticus gives careful instructions as to what the worshipers are to do.”
Gutzke, Manford George. Plain Talk on Leviticus and Numbers. Zondervan Pub. House., 1981. p. 15.
ACST 50- The Sacrifice
blameless devotion
reparation for failures
reparation is possible
the same forgiveness
the second bird
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