If, however, they are poor and cannot afford these offerings, they must take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for them, together with a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil. The scaled-down restoration offering for those who cannot afford the full package: one lamb (instead of three) plus the grain offering and oil. The reduction applies to the sin offering and burnt offering (which will use birds instead of lambs in the following verses) but not to the guilt offering — the guilt offering remains a lamb even in the reduced package. The guilt offering's non-reducibility communicates its particular importance in the restoration ceremony.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

Publish a note on this verse