“And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.”
Do with this bull just as he did with the bull for the sin offering; the priest shall make atonement for them in this way, and they will be forgiven. The atonement formula — the priest shall make atonement, and they will be forgiven — states the outcome explicitly for the first time in the sin offering regulations. The forgiveness that the sin offering produces is not merely ceremonial but real: they will be forgiven. 1 John 1:9 says if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us — the forgiveness that the sin offering produces through the priestly mediation is the Old Testament institutional expression of the forgiveness that God's faithfulness and justice guarantee in the new covenant.
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