“And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.”
He shall burn all the fat on the altar as he burned the fat of the fellowship offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for the leader's sin, and he will be forgiven. The fat portions of the leader's sin offering are burned on the altar as with the fellowship offering — the same fat-to-God principle applies. The atonement and forgiveness formula closes the leader's sin offering regulation with the same outcome as the community's: the priest makes atonement, the leader is forgiven. The graduated scale of offerings and rituals does not produce a graduated scale of outcomes: whether high priest, community, or leader, the result of the properly executed sin offering is the same forgiveness.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!