“Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy:
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘This is the law of the trespass offering. It is most holy.
- KJV Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
- NKJV ‘Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering (it is most holy):
- NASB ‘Now this is the law of the guilt offering; it is most holy.
- NLT “These are the instructions for the guilt offering. It is most holy.
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Quick answer
This is the law of the trespass offering, and it is most holy. God now details the priestly handling of the guilt offering.
Overview
The instructions turn to the trespass or guilt offering, again declared 'most holy.' Its sanctity underscores the seriousness of the trespasses it addresses, especially wrongs that demand both atonement and restitution. As with every offering, its careful holiness points toward the supremely holy sacrifice of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Lev 6:17It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My offerings made by fire. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
- Lev 6:25“Tell Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the LORD; it is most holy.
- Lev 5:14Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Lev 21:22He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,
- Lev 5:1–6“If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.
- Ezek 46:20and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”
- Lev 14:12–13Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and present it as a guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil; and he must wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
- Ezek 44:29They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.
- Ezek 40:39Inside the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings were to be slaughtered.
- Lev 5:11But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He must not put olive oil or frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.
- Lev 5:8He is to bring them to the priest, who shall first present the one for the sin offering. He is to twist its head at the front of its neck without severing it;
- Num 6:12He must rededicate his time of separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his separation was defiled.
- Lev 19:21–22The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as his guilt offering to the LORD.
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