They are to lay their hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering. The individual's hand-laying and slaughter at the burnt offering place follows the established pattern. The individual member of the community performs the same identification act as the high priest, the elders representing the community, and the leader: the hand laid on the head of the sin offering is the same gesture at every level of the covenant community. The theological act of identification with the substitute is not reserved for officials or leaders but is the ordinary individual Israelite's act of covenant self-presentation before God.

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