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.
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’.
- KJV The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: 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.
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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 7:7“‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.
- Lev 5:15–18“If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly, in the holy things of Yahweh; then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
- Lev 4:29He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.
- Lev 4:24He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh. It is a sin offering.
- Num 5:8–10But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest’s; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.
- Num 18:19All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your offspring with you.”
- Num 18:8–9Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.
- Hos 4:8They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
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