And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
Parallel translations
- WEB They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
- BSB They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.
- NKJV And they gave their promise that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they presented a ram of the flock as their trespass offering.
- NASB They pledged to send away their wives, and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
- NLT They vowed to divorce their wives, and they each acknowledged their guilt by offering a ram as a guilt offering.
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Quick answer
These priests pledged to put away their wives and offered a ram as a guilt offering. They acknowledged their sin and sought atonement.
Overview
The guilty priests gave their hand as a solemn pledge to act and brought a guilt offering, recognizing the need for atonement alongside their obedience. Their response combined repentance, restitution, and sacrifice. The guilt offering points beyond itself to Christ, the final guilt offering whose blood cleanses from all sin, so that no further sacrifice is needed (Hebrews 10:18).
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- Lev 6:6And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
- 2 Kgs 10:15And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
- 1 Chr 29:24And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.
- 2 Chr 30:8Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
- Lam 5:6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
- Lev 6:4Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
- Gal 2:9And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
- Lev 5:15–16If 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:
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