Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil; he shall wave them before the Lord as a wave offering. The guilt offering lamb is the first offering of the restoration ceremony: the person being restored is treated as someone who has violated the sacred by their disease-related exclusion. The guilt offering with the wave of the lamb and the oil communicates that the disease period has created an obligation — not a moral one, but a ritual one — that must be addressed before full restoration can occur. The log of oil waved before the Lord will be applied in the next steps.

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