The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the tent of meeting for a guilt offering to the Lord. The guilt offering for the man who violated the promised slave communicates that the violation creates guilt before God even when the community's legal penalty is reduced from the death sentence that adultery with a free married woman would require. The guilt offering ram acknowledges the wrong before God even when the communal penalty does not match the death penalty for full adultery.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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