‘Now this is the law of the guilt offering; it 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.
- BSB “Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy:
- NKJV ‘Likewise this is the law of the trespass 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 shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
- Lev 6:25“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is most holy.
- Lev 5:14Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Lev 21:22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
- Lev 5:1–6“‘If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
- Ezek 46:20He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.
- Lev 14:12–13“The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
- Ezek 44:29They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
- Ezek 40:39In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, on which to kill the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering.
- Lev 5:11“‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
- Lev 5:8He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.
- Num 6:12He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
- Lev 19:21–22He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.
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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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