The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests’.
Parallel translations
- WEB The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’.
- BSB The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
- NKJV The money from the trespass offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the Lord. It belonged to the priests.
- NASB The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the Lord; it belonged to the priests.
- NLT However, the money that was contributed for guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the Lord’s Temple. It was given to the priests for their own use.
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Quick answer
Money from guilt and sin offerings was not used for repairs but belonged to the priests. The priests' lawful portion is preserved.
Overview
Certain offerings were designated by the law for the priests' support and so were kept separate from the repair fund. The distinction honors the Mosaic provisions for those who served at the altar. Respecting these boundaries shows fidelity to God's instructions even amid a major building project.
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Cross-references · 8
- Lev 7:7As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
- Lev 5:15–18If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
- Lev 4:29And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
- Lev 4:24And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin offering.
- Num 5:8–10But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
- Num 18:19All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
- Num 18:8–9And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
- Hos 4:8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
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