The Lord said to Moses. A new section of divine speech introduces the sin offering — the chattat — the offering that addresses unintentional sins and ritual impurity. The transition from the burnt, grain, and fellowship offerings to the sin offering marks a shift in the offerings' purpose: where the earlier offerings expressed devotion and communion, the sin offering addresses the problem of inadvertent violation of the covenant's requirements. The sin offering system is the covenant's provision for the inevitable failures of even well-intentioned covenant members. Romans 5:20 says where sin increased, grace increased all the more — the sin offering is the Old Testament institutional expression of that grace.

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