“If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:”
If anyone is unfaithful to the Lord by sinning unintentionally in regard to any of the Lord's holy things, they are to bring to the Lord as a penalty a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value in silver, according to the sanctuary shekel. It is a guilt offering. The guilt offering for misappropriating sacred things — eating priestly food by mistake, using dedicated items for ordinary purposes, mishandling what belongs to God — requires a ram without defect valued at the proper sanctuary standard. The ram is more costly than the sin offering goat or lamb, reflecting the additional weight of the violation: misappropriating what belongs to God adds the dimension of theft from the sacred to the ordinary category of inadvertent sin.
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