They pledged to send away their wives, and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
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.
- KJV 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.
- 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.
- 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 6:6He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.
- 2 Kgs 10:15When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?” Jehonadab answered, “It is.” “If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
- 1 Chr 29:24All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.
- 2 Chr 30:8Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
- Lam 5:6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
- Lev 6:4then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,
- Gal 2:9and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
- Lev 5:15–16“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.
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