After reading chapter 5:
*Here we learn what are some of the things that require sin offerings for forgiveness: not speaking up as a witness, touching the carcass of a dead animal, touching human uncleanness ( We will learn more about that later.), and carelessly taking an oath. If a person is guilty of these things, they must confess and offer a female lamb or goat as a sin offering. If they can't afford that, two doves or pigeons will do. If they can't afford that, some fine flour will do.
*The next instructions are for guilt offerings. This is to be done when a person unintentionally sins in regard to Yahweh's holy things.(The passage is not clear what this means, maybe we will be enlightened later. ) Restitution must be made, then a ram is to be sacrificed.
*Verses 17-19 have me scratching my head. If a person sins and doesn't know they are guilty, they must make a guilt offering. I guess we must assume that the person was informed of their guilt by an helpful person, probably a priest. Otherwise, how would they know they should make a guilt offering? I wonder what would have been the Israelites' personal feelings about the priests at this time.
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