After reading chapter 6:
*If anyone sins against their neighbor by stealing, cheating, extortion, swearing falsely, etc., they must make restitution and make a guilt offering.
*Verses 8-13 are about how the priests are to keep the fire on the altar perpetually burning. There are also instructions for how the priests are to dispose of the ashes, which requires wearing different garments and underwear for removing ashes from the altar and for carrying the ashes outside the camp. Why does it matter what clothes and underwear a priest is wearing when the ashes from sacrifices are being moved from one place to another? Are these the kinds of things Yahweh cares about?
*Verses14-18 deal with how the priests will treat their portion of a grain offering. It must not be baked with yeast and it must be eaten in a holy place, preferably the tabernacle courtyard. Any male descendant of Aaron can eat it. Whatever touches it will become holy. The priests don't get to eat all the leftover flour donated to the lord. They also have to make a grain offering very morning and evening. It must be burnt completely and not eaten.
*Verses 24-29 deal with more regulations for sin offerings. I do wish these rules for individual kinds of sacrifices were all contained within their proper categories. It seems we must revisit them over and over. The place the animals are slaughtered is holy. The priest making the offering eats its meat in a holy place, the courtyard of the tabernacle. Whatever touches the meat becomes holy. If sacrificial blood gets on clothes, they must be washed in a holy place. There are more holiness rules about cooking pots and descendants of Aaron. It all seems rather pointless for something as ambiguous as holiness.
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