The priest shall offer up the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be clean.
Parallel translations
- WEB and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
- KJV And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
- BSB and offer it on the altar, with the grain offering, to make atonement for him, and he will be clean.
- NKJV And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
- NLT and offer it on the altar along with the grain offering. Through this process, the priest will purify the person who was healed, and the person will be ceremonially clean.
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Quick answer
The priest offers the burnt and meal offerings on the altar, makes atonement, and the man is clean. It matters because the completed sacrifices secure the man's full cleansing and restoration.
Overview
With the burnt and grain offerings presented, the atonement is finished and the man is declared clean, his restoration complete. The whole sequence, blood, oil, and offerings, has brought him from exile back into full fellowship. This climactic cleansing points to Christ, whose finished sacrifice makes his people truly and fully clean before God (Hebrews 10:14).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Lev 14:10“On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, and one ewe lamb a year old without defect, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
- Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- Lev 14:8“He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
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Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.
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