“And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the Lord; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.”
They shall remove all the fat, just as the fat is removed from the fellowship offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar as an aroma pleasing to the Lord. The priest will make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven. The atonement and forgiveness formula closes the individual's female goat sin offering with the same outcome as every previous sin offering category. The fat removed and burned, the priest makes atonement, the individual is forgiven. Micah 7:18 says who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? — the forgiveness that the sin offering produces through priestly mediation is the expression of the pardoning God that Micah celebrates.
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