“Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.”
When they are made aware of the sin they committed, they must bring as their offering for the sin they committed a female goat without defect. The individual's sin offering is a female goat — the least costly of the major sin offering animals. The female goat is accessible to a wider range of economic circumstances than the male goat of the leader or the bull of the high priest. The without defect standard remains constant: the individual who brings the least costly offering still brings the best available from that category. The quality requirement is not relaxed for the individual; it is proportional. 2 Corinthians 8:12 says the gift is acceptable according to what one has — the graduated sin offering scale is the covenant's expression of that proportionality.
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