“And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:”
They are to bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one for the sin offering. He is to wring its neck from the front without dividing it completely. The sin offering bird is offered first — the atonement precedes the consecration represented by the burnt offering. The wringing from the front rather than the back (different from the burnt offering bird's preparation in Leviticus 1:15) is a technical distinction in the preparation that distinguishes the sin offering bird from the burnt offering bird even when both are the same species. The distinction in preparation communicates the distinction in purpose: the two birds brought for the same cost serve two different theological functions.
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