“And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.”
They are to bring to the priest as a guilt offering a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value. The priest will make atonement for them for the wrong they have committed unintentionally, and they will be forgiven. The ram without defect at the proper value is the standard guilt offering animal for this borderline case — the same as for the sacred-things violation of verse 15. The consistent animal requirement communicates that the gravity of the unintentional sin is the same whether the person knew specifically which command was violated or not: the violation itself produces the guilt, and the guilt requires the guilt offering.
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