08. Instructions for Priests (Burnt, Grain, Sin offering) (Lev 6:8-30)

The passage of 6:8-7:21 is the instruction given to the priests.

πŸ‘‰ Read Leviticus 6:8-30

Then the Lord spoke to Moses: “Command (                         ), ‘this is the law of the burnt offering.’”

The (         ) of the burnt offering should not be extinguished. The priests must take the fatty ashes outside the (          ). When he takes the ashes, he must wear (                                      ).

For a grain offering for a common person, a part is offered up in (          ) on the altar, and the rest will be eaten by (               ). But, for the grain offering for priests, it should be offered up in smoke as a (          ) offering.

Sin offering is most holy (verses    ,    ). The priest who offers it must (        ) it. But the sin offering for the priests or the whole congregation must be (                ).

Answers and Meditation

Aaron and his sons

 

Fire, camp, linen robe and linen leggings

 

Smoke, the priests, whole

 

25, 29, eat, burned up.

Regulation for the sin offering is complicated. The presiding priest should eat the sin offering. If he doesn’t eat it, he violates the law. From the grain offering, the remaining was given to the priests as a gift from God.

The priest’s eating the sin offering (Hatah: sin offering or sin)was to identify himself with the sacrificed animal. Thus, the priest bears the sin of the offeror.

The sin offering for the priest or the whole congregation, its blood was sprinkled before the curtain in the Holy Place. See Chapter 4. Sin offering for common people (Lev 4)

The atonement of sin for the people relied on the priest. Now, the priests were human, not perfect. The atonement of the priests’ sins was open-ended to the perfect atonement that God would prepare.

The priesthood and sacrifice system will be made complete by the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. The Book of Hebrews explains this.

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