06. Additional Sin Offering Regulations (Lev 5:1-13)
This passage shows examples of sins that one should bring a sin offering. For the poor, God allowed birds or flour as a sin offering.
π Read Leviticus 5:1-13
Verses 1 – 4 explain four possible sins. They became
guilty of touching unclean animals, dead or alive (verse ) and humans in uncleanness (verse ). If they failed to testify as a witness (verse ) or made a
thoughtless oath (verse ). The one
of the guilt should ( ) how he
has sinned.
If he doesn’t afford sheep or goat, he should bring two
doves, one for ( ) and one
for ( ).
If he doesn’t afford two doves, he should bring an ephah
of ( ) for a sin
offering.
Answers and Meditation
2,3,1,4, confess
When they became guilty, they were supposed to bring sin
offerings. These sins seem trivial to the people of modern days. However, the
Lord wants His people free from any sort of guilt.
We learn two lessons here. 1) The sin offering is required
when you are guilty of sin. That means there are many unknown sins.
The sin offering cannot remove all your sins but only lessen the guilt in your
heart. Do not brag that you are sinless after sin offering. 2) Any
little guilt in your heart is forbidden before the Lord. The Lord sees the
attitude of your heart more than how less sinful you are than others. It is
because we all are utterly sinful.
Sin offering, burnt offering
Wheat flour
The Lord provided a way of atonement for the poor.
They should not add olive oil or frankincense to the sin
offering of flour because it is not the grain offering. After offering up a
portion of it in smoke, the remainder will be given to the priest, like the grain offering. However, the eating of two
offerings had different implications. The eating of sin offerings implies bearing
the sin's burden, while the grain offering is given to the priests as their
portion.
Eating a sin offering is literally the same as eating a sin. In Hebrew, sin and sin offering have the same word, hatah.
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