* trespass offering.
It is remarkable, that in this and the following verse, the
sacrifice offered is indifferently called {asham,} a trespass
offering, and {chattath,} a sin offering; yet the Marginal
References show that these differ in several respects. Sin
offerings were sometimes offered for the whole congregation;
trespass offerings never, but only for particular persons.
Bullocks were sometimes used for sin offerings, never for
trespass offerings. The blood of the sin offerings was put
on the horns of the altar, that of the trespass offerings was
only sprinkled round the bottom of the altar. The sin
offering seems to have been for the expiation of offences
committed in matters of religion, from a mistake or
inadvertency respecting the law; but the trespass offering
was required for the casual deviations from the ritual law,
when well known, or for crimes against moral precepts,
implying injustice to man.
4:28,32 6:6 7:1-7 14:12,13 19:21,22 Nu 6:12 Eze 40:39 42:13
* a female.
4:28,32
* the priest.
4:20
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