Leviticus - 7:1



1 "'This is the law of the trespass offering. It is most holy.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 7:1.

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This also is the law of the sacrifice for a trespass, it is most holy:
And this is the law of the guilt offering: it is most holy.
And this is the law of the offering for wrongdoing: it is most holy.
Likewise, this is the law of the sacrifice for a transgression. It is the Holy of holies.
Ista autem est lex hostiae pro delicto: sanctificatio sanctificationum est.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Likewise this is the law. I have just confessed that I do not sufficiently understand how these two words, cht'h, chateah, and 'sm, asham, differ from each other; and I have therefore followed the sense which is commonly received, and called them the sin and the trespass-offering, (hostiam pro peccato vel pro delicto.) Although in this second kind of offering he commands the same ceremony to be observed as in the former one, yet he mentions some things which he had before omitted, such as the sprinkling of blood around the altar, the offering of the fat, kidneys, etc., which had not been before expressed. The sum amounts to this, that they were to sacrifice in the same manner, and with the same rites for sin as for trespass, and make not the smallest alteration in the rule laid down for them.

See Leviticus 5:14 note. In Leviticus 7:2 "sprinkle" should rather be cast Leviticus 1:5. All the details regarding the parts put on the altar are repeated for each kind of sacrifice, because the matter was one of paramount importance.

Trespass-offering - See end of the chapter at Leviticus 7:38 (note).

Likewise this [is] the law of the (a) trespass offering: it [is] most holy.
(a) Which is for the smaller sins, and such as are committed by ignorance.

Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering,.... Or the various rites and rules to be observed at the offering of it: the persons for whom it was to be made are described in the two preceding chapters, Leviticus 5:1 both such that sinned through ignorance, and knowingly, and here the place and parts of the offering, and how to be disposed of, are declared:
it is most holy; wholly devoted for sacred use, either to the Lord, or to his priests; there were some things the Jews call light holy things, and others most holy in the highest degree, of this sort was the trespass offering.

In the sin-offering and the trespass-offering, the sacrifice was divided between the altar and the priest; the offerer had no share, as he had in the peace-offerings. The former expressed repentance and sorrow for sin, therefore it was more proper to fast than feast; the peace-offerings denoted communion with a reconciled God in Christ, the joy and gratitude of a pardoned sinner, and the privileges of a true believer.

THE LAW OF THE TRESPASS OFFERING. (Leviticus. 7:1-27)
Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering--This chapter is a continuation of the laws that were to regulate the duty of the priests respecting the trespass offerings. The same regulations obtained in this case as in the burnt offerings--part was to be consumed on the altar, while the other part was a perquisite of the priests--some fell exclusively to the officiating minister, and was the fee for his services; others were the common share of all the priestly order, who lived upon them as their provision, and whose meetings at a common table would tend to promote brotherly harmony and friendship.

The Law of the Trespass-Offering embraces first of all the regulations as to the ceremonial connected with the presentation.

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